Prince Onyeji
LeanGoogs AI
Sovereign voice AI for Africa’s languages. Built in Port Harcourt. Not borrowed from Silicon Valley.
About the startup
What are you building?
Leangoogs AI is building the voice infrastructure Africa never had. Speech-to-speech AI for Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Pidgin, Swahili, and Amharic, covering 350 million speakers who’ve been invisible to global AI systems. Alongside that, an AI-native AML and fraud detection engine built specifically for CBN-regulated banks and fintechs. Two products, one thesis: African data, processed on African soil, serving African institutions. No data tourism. No borrowed frameworks. Sovereign by design.
Problem you're solving
350 million Africans speak languages global AI ignores. Banks lose billions to fraud systems built for foreign markets. Leangoogs fixes both: sovereign voice AI for low-resource languages and AML detection built for Nigerian financial reality.
- Year founded
- 2025
- Funding
- Funded (pre-seed)