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Aboyeji-backed AI engineering talent platform Talent Nation raises pre-seed funding

Aboyeji-backed AI engineering talent platform Talent Nation raises pre-seed funding — the desk wire, 30 October 2026. Nigerian AI engineering talent platform Talent Nation, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed funding round as it looks to train and deploy one million African AI engineers over the next decade. Co-founded by Aboyeji, who was behind Andela, Flutterwave and Moove, and South Africa-born lawyer Kesiah Valkin, who previously co-founded [...]

Updated 30 October 2026 · First published 30 October 2026

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