jenga.fund

Backing East Africa's AI builders

jenga Kiswahili verb
to build.

The Jenga Fellowship supports East African technical talent building online ventures at their own pace.

A focus on Anglophone East African countries

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Why Now

Local talent, a global market.

East Africa has more capable young builders than it has traditional jobs. AI lets them ship real products, and the internet lets them sell those products anywhere. That combination is new.

Talent 1 in 3 of the world's young people will be African by 2050, the youngest workforce on earth.
Tools Months → Days What took a team months, a motivated builder now ships in days with AI.
Market $15B → $300B Africa's SaaS market versus the global one. Both are wins.
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A rolling cohort of 100, climbing to their first $100.

Jenga Fellows runs as one self-paced virtual cohort. A new fellow joins only when someone graduates or drops out.

They graduate when they earn their first $100 online.

Jenga Fellows cohort flow A new fellow joins a fixed cohort of 100, then graduates by earning their first $100 online. Intake is gated: a seat opens only when someone exits. JOINS COHORT OF 100 MAKES $100 GRADUATES
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Not just access. A support system.

Each Jenga Fellow gets frontier tools, a weekly live rhythm to get unstuck and celebrate wins, and an always-on forum that carries momentum between sessions.

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Tool access

Codex and Claude Code Frontier agent seats, removing the $20 to $200 a month access bottleneck.
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Live rhythm

Build Hours and Demo Days Weekly Build Hours to get unstuck, and Demo Days to celebrate shipped work.
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Always on

A builder forum An always-on forum where alumni and vetted mentors answer questions between the live sessions.
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A $60K pilot. A $100K raise.

Most fellows never need more than the $20 seat. Only those who ship and earn break through to $200, so spend tracks results.

Six months runs one cohort of 100. The raise leaves a buffer for what we learn, and graduates come back as TAs so the next costs less.
Fellow Vetted in. Entry agent seat. $20 / mo
shows real promise
Promising Building something real. More usage to accelerate. $100 / mo
earns first $100, starts mentoring
TA Graduated. Mentors the cohort. $200 / mo

Provisional figures, replace with your model.

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What We're Raising For

Run the program, back the businesses.

Operations

Tools, Build Hours, review, and the forum that keep a cohort of 100 running.

Investment

A pool to back fellows' ventures as they grow, like an early-stage fund.

As those businesses grow, a share of the returns recycles into the fund, so Jenga leans less on grants each cohort. 06 / 06