Welcome to Afrixolve
There are two markets in African higher education that almost never meet.
One is full of students with capability they can't prove: portfolio projects with no real-world brief, internships that pay nothing and resolve nothing, courses that grade deliverables that never leave the classroom. The other is full of employers with real work and no good way to source local talent into it without a six-week recruiting cycle.
Afrixolve sits in the middle of those two markets — a marketplace where employers post small, paid briefs, students apply with verifiable profiles, educators co-grade for credit, and every completed project becomes a signed credential the student can carry anywhere.
Four things we won't compromise on
- Students are always free. The platform should never be the friction between a student and their first paid project.
- Mobile-money native. Bank accounts aren't the default across much of Africa — a phone number is. Payouts go to MoMo on milestone approval.
- Affordability-indexed. Employer and institution pricing is benchmarked to local purchasing power, not Silicon Valley rates.
- Open about impact. We publish completion rates, payout volume, and credential counts. If the model doesn't work, the numbers will say so.
What's live today
The pilot is running with three universities and two employer partners. Five projects are in flight, the first cohort of MoMo payouts has shipped, and the first signed credentials have started showing up on student profiles.
If you're a student, head to the Marketplace. If you're an employer or institution, start a conversation — we're hand-onboarding partners while we sharpen the model.
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