Flapmax

"Africa can lead the world in AI, but only through sovereign compute, sustainable infrastructure, and the talent to build it. Flapmax is building systems that empower nations to own their data, develop innovators, and shape their AI destiny."

Flapmax is building Africa's sovereign AI backbone – a distributed, energy-efficient, and quantum-ready compute network spanning the African continent. Founded by Dr. Dave Ojika, an AI and quantum computing researcher with a PhD in computer engineering and two decades of experience in advanced computing and ecosystem development, the company addresses one of Africa's most critical challenges: the lack of sovereign AI infrastructure and localized compute capacity. Flapmax's architecture integrates cloud-scale modular datacenters, classical–quantum hybrid compute clusters (HQAC), and AfricaLM – a family of multilingual foundation models trained on curated African datasets. This combination enables governments, enterprises, startups, and universities to access optimized sovereign AI compute, train and deploy models in local languages, reduce dependence on foreign hyperscalers, and empower nations to steward their own AI futures. Backed by partnerships with Microsoft, AMD, IBM, Intel, Dell, and HPE, and aligned with national AI strategies in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Tunisia, Flapmax's roadmap includes Phase 1 sovereign datacenter deployment in Ghana, followed by expansions in East and North Africa, and the creation of a Pan-African, space-augmented sovereign compute fabric interlinking governments, universities, and industry by 2030. Flapmax's datacenters are designed to integrate renewable and low-carbon energy sources, supporting Africa's transition to sustainable compute infrastructure. With its focus on energy efficiency, quantum readiness, and multilingual AI sovereignty, Flapmax is laying the foundation for a self-sustaining African AI ecosystem – one capable of generating its own research, infrastructure, and innovation capacity from the ground up, from silicon to software. *Flapmax seeks partnerships that strengthen government facilitation, green-energy integration, and the cross-border deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure. We also welcome collaboration with global research institutions and development finance partners to accelerate AI-quantum HPC, multilingual AI, and workforce development across the continent.