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LastWave Africa

About LastWave Africa

The last wave of technology should reach everyone.

LastWave Africa is a registered technology company and the parent of xlambda and LastWaveEdu. Our hardworking teams design, build and run software for the real African user, and we champion the whole region as a place where world-class technology is made.

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Our mission

Power Africa's next wave of software.

Most technology reaches Africa last, built for other markets and squeezed onto our networks, our phones and our payment systems. We think that's backwards. The continent's builders deserve infrastructure designed for them from day one.

So we build it: a developer cloud in xlambda, products like LastWaveEdu, and the platforms behind organisations such as KFE Consortium and Gloha Family Welfare. We run everything we build, and we invest in deep research so our clients get world-class engineering without the R&D bill.

1,000+
Developers building on xlambda
100,000+
Users served across our platforms
5
Managed cloud services in production
10
Open SDKs on npm and PyPI

What we value

How our teams work.

Speed with craft

We ship in days without cutting the corners that matter: security, data and reliability.

Africa first

We build for the users we grew up with, on the networks and phones they actually have.

Own the outcome

We don't hand over code and disappear. We run what we build and stand behind it.

Research driven

We go deep on Rust, kernels, networks and AI so our clients get the benefit without the R&D bill.

Our journey

Achievements so far.

  1. LastWave Africa founded

    A registered technology company with one belief: Africa deserves technology designed for it, not adapted to it.

  2. Client platforms go live

    We start supplying and running the technology for organisations like KFE Consortium and Gloha Family Welfare.

  3. xlambda launches

    Our developer cloud opens with media, live streaming, PostgreSQL, Redis and email, with SDKs on npm and PyPI.

  4. LastWaveEdu for Kenyan schools

    Our school management platform launches for CBC and 8-4-4, built on xlambda.

  5. 1,000+ developers, 100,000+ users

    And our research teams take on external contracts in Rust, kernels, networking and AI.

Work with us

Join, partner or invest.

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Speak to us in plain words. However complex it is, our team will work out the best way to build it, and ship the first version in days.

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