Fifteen years at Apple, TikTok, Salesforce and IBM. Then a one-way trip to Pointe-Noire. In 2024, Luc Okalobe founded Yamify in the Republic of Congo, a cloud platform powered by GPU and hosted in African data centers. In August 2025, the startup raised $100,000 in pre-seeding. The question came to him on the ground. Back to Congo in 2022 after fifteen years of building the infrastructures of Apple, TikTok, Salesforce and IBM, Luc Okalobe hears …
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Fifteen years at Apple, TikTok, Salesforce and IBM. Then a one-way trip to Pointe-Noire. In 2024, Luc Okalobe founded Yamify in the Republic of Congo, a cloud platform powered by GPU and hosted in African data centers. In August 2025, the startup raised $100,000 in pre-seeding. The question came to him on the ground. Back to Congo in 2022 after fifteen years of building the infrastructures of Apple, TikTok, Salesforce and IBM, Luc Okalobe hears …