Kibo School offers moderated, collaborative online STEM degree programs targeted at students across Africa. Founded by CEO Ope Bukola with Keno Omu and Rob Cobb, the school launched last year and has run short courses that trained 400 students in 13 African countries. Its inaugural offering is a full-time three-year computer science degree priced at $6,000 per student and accredited through Woolf, a UK collegiate university, with students earning transferable ECTS credits. Kibo is enrolling students in six cities across Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana, and requires students to live at least 100 km from those cities to facilitate occasional in-person meetups and community building. The curriculum emphasizes collaborative projects, professional mentorship and mandatory internships, and the team is building an intelligent system to automate administrative tasks including student pairing. The school plans to introduce additional programs and move to quarterly intakes starting next year, with an initial cohort target of 100 students.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2022