Venture studio · Ouagadougou → Abidjan
The products West Africa was waiting for.
Iconiq Brains conceives, builds and scales digital products shaped for ground truth: water, the grid, the live sale, the football fix, the waiting line. Five products, one engineering standard.
01 · Operational intelligence · waterDoes the money collected match the water delivered?
WaterOps connects what a water operator already produces — Mobile Money payments, meter readings, subscribers, water points, field actions — into one model of the operation, reconciles it, and puts a figure on where revenue leaks: by site, by period, by agent. Deterministic, explainable, accepted by a regulator or a donor.
- Deterministic reconciliationPayments ↔ readings ↔ invoices ↔ water points, rule by rule.
- A quantified gapThe unmatched amount, by site and by agent: the figure that triggers action.
- Privacy-firstThe engine runs on your machine. No data leaves the operator.
- A report you can trustTrust Score and Decision Readiness A–D: we state what the data permits, and its limits.
- 4,860,000
- Collected (FCFA)
- 92%
- Reconciled
- 388,000
- Gap (FCFA)
02 · Real-time service availabilityIt's not just you. Check your neighbourhood.
Electricity, water, internet: Signalya answers “is it only me?” faster than any WhatsApp group. Neighbour-verified reports, a confidence score, restoration alerts — at city scale.
- [N]
- Verified reports
- [N]
- Neighbourhoods covered
- < 10 s
- To report
R14
Paid!
03 · Live selling & mobile checkoutGet paid on your lives. No fake buyers.
Paamli automates what live sellers still do by hand: coded reservations, no-show expiry, Mobile Money payment, automatic receipts. The live goes on, the till fills up.
- Coded reservationOne item, one buyer, one code.
- No-show expiryUnpaid after 5 min? Back on sale.
- Mobile MoneyOrange, Moov, Wave — paid straight to you.
- Automatic receiptProof of purchase sent on WhatsApp.
Prove you know football.
Karammo is not a bookmaker. It's the reputation layer for predictions: you predict, your Karammo IQ grows, you climb from Rising to Legend, you challenge friends in a private league and share on WhatsApp — and the real savants become creators people follow.
- Today's pick
- Lock
- Result
- Karammo IQ
- Challenge
“They haven't lost at home in 11 games. I'm sticking with it.” — @moussa_savant
- 01Moussa1,284
- 02Adjara1,190
- 03Yao K.1,102
- 14You786
05 · Digital waiting roomTake your place. Leave. Come back when it's your turn.
LineLess replaces physical waiting with a virtual queue. Clinics, labs, pharmacies, banks: the customer scans a QR code, joins the line remotely and comes back when their turn approaches. No kiosk, no paper ticket, no app to install.
- QR · link · WhatsAppNo install, no account
- No hardwareYour phones and tablets are enough
- Operational dataWait, service, peak hours
You can leave the waiting area. We'll let you know when your turn approaches.
Cancel my ticketThe studio
A studio that builds — not a fund that waits.
We start from a real problem on the ground, frame it, build the product with our own engineering and operate it until it sets the standard in its category.
- 5
- Products
- 2
- Pilot countries
- 1
- Shared foundation
Ground problems, not trends
The water cut, the queue at the clinic, the fake buyer on a live: our products are born from daily irritants nobody else tools up.
Mobile-first, low-bandwidth, frictionless
QR, link, WhatsApp, PWA: our products work without an install, without a mandatory account and on imperfect connections.
One shared foundation
OTP auth, notifications, Mobile Money payments, realtime, observability: each product inherits the infrastructure of the ones before it.
Data as the moat
Every ticket, report or prediction becomes a measurement. That captured operational reality is what makes our products hard to copy.
Careers
Build the products that set the standard.
We hire engineers, designers and operators who want to own hard problems end to end — across our products, not a single one.
Collaboration · Open, but selective
You have a problem on the ground. We know how to build for it.
Companies, institutions, founders: we put the studio — engineering, design, infrastructure — to work on a limited number of projects a year.