DRC-Born Yamify Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Build ‘Heroku for AI Tools’ on African Data Centres

Africa’s AI boom has a supply problem. Developers and small agencies across the continent want to build and deploy AI tools, but they routinely hit the same wall — high cloud costs, unreliable GPU access, latency issues connecting to overseas servers, and infrastructure complexity that demands in-house cloud engineering talent most startups simply do not have. Yamify, a young startup born out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is building directly at that bottleneck — and it has just closed ne