
Vula builds AI infrastructure for the African SME funding ecosystem. We help African SMEs with a free AI funding assistant to find and apply to their best funding options across grants, debt, and equity. VulaOS, our end-to-end investment portal for investors and grantmakers, has reduced application evaluation times by 60%-90%, helping funders reduce costs and raise more capital by tracking granular data across their portfolios. Our Mission is to 10x investment into African enterprises to ensure our continent can leverage the world's largest youth workforce and ensure that local companies act as protagonists for the continent's development.

Vula builds AI infrastructure for the African SME funding ecosystem. We help African SMEs with a free AI funding assistant to find and apply to their best funding options across grants, debt, and equity. VulaOS, our end-to-end investment portal for investors and grantmakers, has reduced application evaluation times by 60%-90%, helping funders reduce costs and raise more capital by tracking granular data across their portfolios. Our Mission is to 10x investment into African enterprises to ensure our continent can leverage the world's largest youth workforce and ensure that local companies act as protagonists for the continent's development.
What they do: Build AI infrastructure (VulaOS) for African SME funding — tools for funders and an AI assistant for SMEs
Headquarters: London
Founders: Alexander Goff; Nicholas Rawhani
Team size (reported): 17 employees
Funding rounds reported: 2 (Pre-Seed, Seed)
SME funding gap in Africa / digital infrastructure for funders and SMEs
FinTech / B2B funding platform
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Role Overview
Vula is seeking a visionary Head of Engineering to lead our technical evolution as we build Africa's AI-powered open finance infrastructure. Having grown to a team of 20 and serving 10 of the continent's leading financial institutions, we are at a critical inflection point. You will be the technical conductor responsible for transitioning our platform from bespoke, sales-led implementations to a scalable, self-serve Product-Led Growth (PLG) model.
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