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Valingo Empowering Africans Through Online Language Learning

Team

Our founding team collectively has over 40 years tech experience in Africa and 10 in EdTech globally.
Uba Alintah, CEO has exited an African telecoms startup, scaled a Digital Media one to 5 million users in 12 francophone African countries and learned from 2 tech failures in Nigeria.
Michael Eshun, a CELTA certified, British consul trained has worked at Magoosh and Lingoda as an educator as well as other global platforms.
Pascal Aboa worked at Jumia (ipo 2019 -Amazon for Africa) at the beginning of their journey in Francophone Africa in 2015 and ran Customer service as well as assisted in operations.
Kevin Niangoran worked with Bora Teacher in Cote d’ivoire (English learning via Whatsapp)

Our co-founders have had the fortune of education in the US and the UK and see the gap in Africa. We know we can solve it with EdTech and are ready for an arduous yet fulfilling journey ahead.