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Lelapa AI

Lelapa AI

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

Last Round

Seed

Feb 17, 2023

Total Funding Raised

$2.5M

Company Overview

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

Sector

AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure

Verticals

NLP & Conversational AI, ML Platforms, Business Intelligence

Business Model

B2B

Customer Profile

Usage-Based SaaS, Services & Consulting

AI Layer

Foundation

Keywords

African language AInatural language processingNLPfoundation modellarge language modelLLMlow-resource languagesfrontier AI labmachine translationlocalized AIAI APIspeech-to-textconversational AIAI researchcustom AI development

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Lelapa AI comps — public and private peers by sector, stage, and business model
CompanyStatusEst. ValuationRev Multiple
OpenAIPrivate$86.0B~40x
CoherePrivate$5.0B--
Competitor 1Public$XX.XBXXx
Competitor 2Public$XX.XBXXx

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Lelapa AI Funding Rounds

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SeedFeb 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

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Lelapa AI investors
InvestorRounds
Mozilla VenturesSeed
Atlantica VenturesSeed
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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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