Startup that refined its idea at Techpoint Africa’s Pitch Friday wins ₦30m at Zenith Bank Tech Fair

Discover the journey of Cubbes Technologies from Techpoint Africa's Pitch Friday stage to winning a ₦30 million prize at the Zenith Tech Fair 5.0.

Cubbes Technologies recently won the ₦30 million top prize at the Zenith Tech Fair 5.0 Startup Pitch Competition.

While this was a massive win for the Nigerian edtech startup, the seeds of that eventual success were sown long before, specifically, at a Techpoint Africa Pitch Friday in February 2025. The event had offered the company its critical first public validation.

Pitch Friday is a monthly event hosted by Techpoint Africa, designed as a platform for early-stage entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts to connect, learn, and grow their businesses.

Helping African students study better

Founded by Peter Adeyemi and Emmanuel Akinyele, Cubbes Technologies built an AI-powered edtech platform to bring university learning into the 21st century.

Their mission directly addresses a key pain point across many African universities: students struggle with fragmented study materials, disorganised administrative processes, and a lack of personalised academic support. The result is missed assignments, poor academic performance, and for many, further disillusionment with the educational system.

Cubbes utilises artificial intelligence to generate personalised practice questions, summarise lengthy course materials, and create smart study planners. Students simply select their institution, faculty, and level, and it instantly curates all their relevant materials, past questions, and lecture notes.

The solution goes beyond academics to include features such as Cubbes Pay to digitise the manual process of paying departmental and faculty dues, creating a holistic student super app. This comprehensive approach is clearly working, as the platform has already reached over 50,000 students across more than 100 institutions in Nigeria and Uganda.

Validation at Pitch Friday   

Every successful startup needs a crucial moment to test its hypothesis against an audience of investors, founders, and operators. For Cubbes, that platform was Pitch Friday. Securing a spot and pitching on that major stage provided instant and invaluable b...