Partner Prospectus
Found the future of accessible AI inference for Africa and humanity.
AI has reached Africa. The wall is price. We pay teams to crash the cost of inference 50-100x, and we announce our partners from the Moonshot stage in Lagos.
$10M+
In prizes
50-100x
Target cost cut
Oct 28
Launch at Moonshot, Lagos
54
African nations benefit
The stage · Moonshot, Lagos
The Enzi Prize opens at the National Theatre, Lagos on October 28, 2026, the first day of Tech Cabal's Moonshot. Moonshot pulls thousands of founders, corporates, investors, and government leaders into one room. You are named into that room, on that stage.
Thousands
At Moonshot: founders, corporates, investors, government
60-80
On the curated Prize stage: finalists, judges, press
Oct 28
National Theatre, Lagos · launch day, the first day of Moonshot
Why partner
01
Be named among the founders of the solution, not a logo on a banner. We commit $1M+ of operations to PR that keeps every partner visible for the life of the prize.
02
First-look relationships with the most rigorously verified AI-efficiency teams on the continent: live benchmarks, a public leaderboard, three years of evidence before anyone writes a term sheet.
03
Prizes mobilize 5-10x the purse in private R&D. The $10M Ansari X-Prize induced over $100M of spending.
04
When the cost of intelligence falls 100x for 1.4 billion people, the names attached get cited for decades. The right side of history, with receipts.
Ways in
$1M+ in capital or equivalent strategic assets, multi-year, with real operational skin in the game.
Seat on the Prize Steering Committee, co-design of rules and benchmarks, named co-presenter from the Moonshot stage, first-look winner relationships.
$250K-$1M to the purse or operations.
A named prize or track, launch stage time at the National Theatre, judge seats, priority access to results.
GPUs, compute credits, cloud capacity, benchmark hosting, connectivity.
Co-branding on the shared GPU pool and public leaderboard, preferred-platform status for competing teams.
Under $250K, or convening power, media reach, training capacity.
Conference presence, community programming slots, ecosystem association.
Every tier carries "Founding supporter of the Enzi Prize" usage rights, inclusion in the PR program, the annual impact report, and invitations to the launch and award events. Nobody who helps is invisible.
Who you join
We are assembling a Year-1 slate from the diaspora's leading AI voices to judge and speak, of a caliber that gives the prize technical legitimacy and global reach, and puts partners in serious company.
Judges
Ade Famoti
Microsoft Research
Omoju Miller
GitHub
More to be announced
Speakers
To be announced.
We name judges, speakers, and partners publicly only once confirmed.
The principle
Everyone connected to this prize should come off mission-proud. That is designed, not hoped. Some partners write checks and want visibility. Some bring infrastructure. Some want to help design the rails, not just ride them. The Enzi Prize Foundation, an independent Delaware non-profit corporation, holds the prize and keeps it neutral, and its board governs the rules.
Africa Deep Tech Foundation · Tech Cabal / Moonshot · Future Africa · Talent Nation
Founding Partner conversations are underway now. Seats are capped.
The Enzi Prize Foundation is a US non-profit. Contributions may be tax-deductible.
Take a seat
Deal flow, brand, deployment pilots, a national strategy win, a flagship Africa AI story. Tell us yours and we'll come back with a concrete way in. Three minutes, no deck required.