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Lelapa

Lelapa AI

Private

JohannesburgAI, Data & Cloud Infrastructurehttps://lelapa.ai

Last Round

Seed

Feb 17, 2023

Total Funding Raised

$2.5M

Momentum Score

25 /100

Company Overview

Lelapa AI is an artificial intelligence company that develops language models and AI-powered products for under-represented African languages.

Sector

AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure

Verticals

NLP & Conversational AI, ML Platforms, Customer Experience, Platform-as-a-Service

Business Model

B2B

Customer Profile

Usage-Based SaaS, Services & Consulting

AI Layer

Foundation

Keywords

African languages AIAI for AfricaLaaSLanguage-AI-as-a-ServiceSLMSmall language modelLow-resource languages AIVernacular AINatural Language ProcessingFoundation modelNLPConversational AISpeech-to-textAI research labTranslation APITranscription APIText-to-speechTTSSentiment analysisUsage-based billing

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Lelapa AI Comps

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Company	Status	Est. Valuation	Rev Multiple
OpenAI	Private	$86.0B	~40x
Cohere	Private	$5.0B	--
Competitor 1	Public	$XX.XB	XXx
Competitor 2	Public	$XX.XB	XXx

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Lelapa AI Funding Rounds

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Round	Date	Amount Raised	Valuation	Investors	Sources
Seed	Feb 17, 2023

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Key People

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Benjamin Rosman

Co-Founder Chief Science Officer

Founding Team

Pelonomi Moiloa

Co-Founder CEO

Founding Team

Jade Abbott

Chief Technology Officer

Executive Team

Thembani Biyam

Chief Operating Officer

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Lelapa AI Investors

Notable investors and investment history

Investor	Rounds
Mozilla Ventures	Seed
Atlantica Ventures	Seed

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Aug 21, 2025
Developing InkubaLM for low-resource African languages and code-switching.
Aug 21, 2025
Developing Vulavula, a multilingual speech platform.

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersJohannesburg

Employee Range26

Year Founded2022

Last FundingFeb 17, 2023

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