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title: "Partner"
site: "The Enzi Prize"
url: "/partner.html"
canonical_url: "https://enziprize.org/partner.html"
last_updated: "2026-09-22"
type: "how-to"
summary: "Build the Enzi Prize with us. Announced from the Moonshot stage in Lagos, Oct 28. Founding Partner seats are capped and open now."
---

# Partner

> Build the Enzi Prize with us. Announced from the Moonshot stage in Lagos, Oct 28. Founding Partner seats are capped and open now.

Partner Prospectus

# Build with us.

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.

[Start a conversation](https://formless.ai/c/geKHNQvH3Q22) [See the ways in](#ways-in)

$10M+

In prizes

50-100x

Target cost cut

Oct 28

Launch at Moonshot, Lagos

54

African nations benefit

The stage · Moonshot, Lagos

## Your partnership is announced from _the biggest platform in African tech._

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

## Your investment buys an ecosystem, not just an event.

01

### The halo

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

### The access

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

### The leverage

Prizes mobilize 5-10x the purse in private R&D. The $10M Ansari X-Prize induced over $100M of spending.

04

### The story

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

## Take a seat at the table.

### Founding Partner

Capped at 2-4 · $1M+

$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.

### Anchor Sponsor

$250K-$1M

$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.

### Infrastructure Partner

Compute & capacity

GPUs, compute credits, cloud capacity, benchmark hosting, connectivity.

Co-branding on the shared GPU pool and public leaderboard, preferred-platform status for competing teams.

### Community Partner

Under $250K, or in-kind

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

## Judges and speakers.

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

## A coalition, not a logo wall.

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

## Tell us what you want from this.

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.

[Start the conversation](https://formless.ai/c/geKHNQvH3Q22) [hello@enziprize.org](mailto:hello@enziprize.org?subject=Partnership%20inquiry)