African Venture Studio

LightHouse Venture Studio

Technology. Business. Empowerment.

An African venture studio building products and services at the intersection of technology and opportunity.

Vision

To become the leading African studio empowering the next generation through technology and business.

Mission

To build, launch, and scale products and services that solve real problems for African students and young professionals.

“Most young Africans are taught how to code. Very few are taught how to build.”

LightHouse Venture Studio started with a simple frustration. Light was watching talented peers master technical skills but struggle to connect those skills to anything real: a product, a business, a career with direction. The tools existed. The talent existed. What was missing was the bridge.

So in January 2024, he built one.

LightHouse Venture Studio began as a personal brand and grew into something bigger: a venture studio designed from the ground up for African youth. Not a school. Not an agency. A studio that builds real products, delivers real services, and creates real pathways for young people who are figuring it out.

Career Compass, our pilot product, was the first proof that this model works. An AI-powered career guidance tool built for students who do not have a mentor in the room. More is coming.

We are early, and we are intentional. Every product we build, every service we deliver, every person we reach is one step toward a generation that does not just use technology; it shapes it.

Technology. Business. Empowerment.

What We Build

Product Development

Website Creation

Business Operations

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Daniel 'Light' Olorunda, Founder of LightHouse Venture Studio

Founded by

Daniel “Light” Olorunda

Founder, LightHouse Venture Studio  ·  Product & Operations Manager  ·  Strategy & Research

The Studio Born From a Frustration

Light didn't start LightHouse Venture Studio because he had a business plan. He started it because he kept watching the same thing happen: brilliant engineering students at UNILAG who could write clean code but had no idea what to do with it.

He had shipped his first production product, Career Compass, before most of his peers had finished their first internship. That's the thing about Light: he treats every skill gap as a build problem, including the gaps in his own path.

What he's building next is bigger than the first product, and it's not public yet.

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Let's Build Something.

Whether you have a project, a partnership idea, or just want to say hello; we'd love to hear from you.