Jephtah Chidozie-Uche
Jephtah Chidozie-Uche is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kippa, a fast-growing finance management startup for micro-merchants in Africa. Kippa uses a simple bookkeeping mobile app that replaces the physical record books for African small and medium businesses in Africa. While crafting amazing user experiences and developing technological strategies at Kippa, Jephtah Chidozie-Uche is also passionate about structuring teams and scaling them.
The tech entrepreneur was recently accepted into Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only organisation for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. Members of this council are chosen for the depth and diversity of their experience and a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics. Jephtah represents the Nigerian tech ecosystem, collaborates with other talented technology professionals from around the world, and raises awareness on the expertise of Nigeria’s technology community. He also promotes the important socio-economic impacts of innovative Nigerian technologies whilst highlighting the sector’s challenges through thought leadership and networking opportunities with other industry experts.
Jephtah completed a bachelor’s degree in Meteorology and Climate Sciences from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State; where he received the Dean’s Award for the 2014 – 2015 academic session, the Best presentation on global warming (World MET. Day, 2014) and the NNPC | TOTAL Scholarship Award for 2015/2016 session.
Over the course of his professional career, Jephtah has gained global expertise in software engineering design and development across Africa and the US. Apart from Kippa, he also cofounded Africave, a tech startup that connects global organizations to elite software engineering talents from Africa.
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Jephtah previously built and developed a conversational AI tool for healthcare patients with healthtech firm MOBicure. He held various roles in software and product engineering and was a Technical Fellow for the Machine Learning department at Curators University for three years, Africa’s first impact university for mission-driven social entrepreneurs. He also worked as Lead Product Engineer at Pkloop Systems, Dallas from 2019 to 2020 where he led a product team through the design, development and deployment of peer-to-peer delivery software. He was as well Backend Engineer at Kurecoin, Lagos; and Machine Learning Engineer at Finmark Trust, South Africa.
Jephtah is the recipient of awards and recognitions that reflect his dedication to the innovative approaches of leveraging cutting edge technologies at the point of computing and human needs. He received the
Winning Idea, A.I and Machine Learning Conference, 2018 (UnivelCity & Institute for the Future), Winning Idea, BRECAN : (developed a cancer prediction M.L model) – 2018 (Ondo State), Best Pitch – Agricultural Accessibility using data and open source (EmergeOndo).