Entrepreneurship

Startups, grants, and achievements across software, medical AI, and assistive technologies.

Startups & Ventures

Mentismint

Accra, Ghana • October 2025 - Present

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer. Built and shipped a React Native personal finance app using Expo, with a microservice backend, a typed TypeScript client/service layer, and an integrated Groq AI layer.

BUILD SCITECH

Kumasi, Ghana • March 2023 - Present

Lead Product Engineer. Leads product development across fintech, healthtech, agritech, and e-commerce, with work spanning communications platforms, consultancy, and technology transfer. Established a technology expo community of 600+ African student developers, founders, and employers.

Agropremium

University of Leipzig, Germany • 2023

Startup Founder. Developed a web-based global trade platform to support fair-trade logistics through the African German Entrepreneurship Academy Startup Class.

ObstaMed

University of Leipzig, Germany • 2025

Startup Founder. Developed a smart, sensor-integrated assistive mobility cane to improve navigation autonomy for people with visual impairments. Presented the work at iN4iN 2025 in Leipzig.

Somax iQ-T1

Medical AI & point-of-care diagnostics

Developed a mobile AI ultrasound device for point-of-care thyroid diagnostics, built around HALO-UNet. The project received pre-seed funding and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano challenge prize.

Grants & Funding

Somax iQ-T1 — $8,000 pre-seed grant

Pre-seed funding

Awarded pre-seed funding for the mobile AI ultrasound project for point-of-care thyroid diagnostics.

African German Entrepreneurship Academy — €15,000+ travel grant

University of Leipzig, Germany • September 2023 - September 2025

Supported participation in the Startup Class at the University of Leipzig, covering the Agropremium and ObstaMed entrepreneurship work.

Achievements

Mansa-to-Mansa NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano project challenge

Project challenge award

Won the ultimate prize, an embedded system worth $300, for the Somax iQ-T1 project.

peerbooking — 1,000+ active beta users

Product traction

Built a campus peer learning marketplace with booking, scheduling, and chat. Reached 1,000+ active users during four weeks of beta testing across one campus.

BUILD SCITECH — 600+ community members

Community building

Established a technology expo community connecting African student developers, founders, and employers.

Strata — open-source TypeScript tooling

Open-source engineering

Built a type-safe request pipeline with a dependency-graph scheduler, parallel execution, circular dependency detection, and Next.js integration.