Built because a wrestling match
should not look like a fight.
AuViScan is a trust-and-safety company from Enugu State, Nigeria, founded in early 2025 by three Nigerian engineers. No outside investors yet. 947 free beta users, three enterprise pilots at ~$5,800 MRR, and a pending AWS Activate Portfolio application that the scale plan depends on.
Two months from idea to incorporated. Still no investors.
AuViScan started in a conversation between Divine and Adaeze at a hackathon organized by Enugu Tech Hub in January 2025. A local video-sharing startup had just been demonetized by an ad network because their auto-moderation flagged a viral clip of a traditional wrestling match as violent content.
The system saw a struggle. It missed an entire cultural context.
Two months later, in March 2025, AuViScan Technologies Ltd. was incorporated in Enugu State. Femi joined within weeks. The three founders put in personal savings and shipped a CLI prototype to twelve testers by July. No pre-seed round, no angel cheque, no grant cycle. Just a deliberate, slow build.
We are still building. The scale plan now depends on AWS Activate Portfolio credits landing before paid tiers go live in Q4 2026.
Three co-founders. One first hire. All in Enugu.
We are four people, all working from Enugu State. We hire slowly and deliberately, prioritizing reviewers who have done the work the product replaces.
Anyadike Divine Chigozirim
CEO & Co-founder
Six years at Interswitch (Lagos) as a product engineer, left in late 2024 to focus on AI. BSc Computer Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka.
“We built AuViScan because we kept watching African platforms get penalized for decisions a context-aware system would have gotten right in under two seconds.”LinkedIn
Adaeze Nwosu
CTO & Co-founder
MSc Machine Learning, University of Edinburgh (2022). Previously ML Engineer at Andela. Returned to Nigeria in late 2024 to co-found AuViScan.
“Multi-modal context is the entire game. Any system that looks at a frame in isolation is, by design, going to fail on nuance.”LinkedIn
Femi Adeyemi
CPO & Co-founder
Five years at Flutterwave (Product), relocated to Enugu in 2023. BSc Information Systems, Covenant University.
“Our customers are trust-and-safety teams. Every design decision starts with: what does a reviewer need to act confidently in under 30 seconds?”LinkedIn
Grace Eze
Head of Research
PhD candidate (AI Safety), African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Joined AuViScan in January 2026 as our first non-founder hire. Focused on bias auditing and responsible moderation.
LinkedInFrom hackathon table to public API.
- Jan 2025
Founding team meets
Divine and Adaeze at the Enugu Tech Hub hackathon. Femi joins the conversation two weeks later.
- Mar 2025
Incorporated
AuViScan Technologies Ltd. registered in Enugu State, Nigeria. Bootstrapped from the three founders’ personal savings.
- Jul 2025
First prototype
Twelve hand-picked alpha testers run videos through a CLI version of the pipeline.
- Oct 2025
Open beta launches
Waitlist opens; first 200 invitations sent to creators, T&S volunteers, and a sports streaming team in Lagos.
- Jan 2026
Grace joins
Grace Eze becomes our first research hire from AIMS. Still no outside funding; she is paid from beta-volunteer fee deferrals and founder savings.
- Feb 2026
AWS Activate
AWS Activate Startup Founders tier approved. Portfolio tier application submitted; scaling depends on it.
- Mar 2026
First paying pilot
A Lagos sports streaming platform signs a custom enterprise contract. ~$2,000/mo retainer for a tuned policy and direct founder access.
- Apr 2026
Beta crosses 900 users
About 5,600 videos analyzed cumulatively. Avg processing time still 13.4s pending scale credits.
- May 2026
Three pilots, ~$5,800 MRR
Two more West African platforms join on enterprise contracts. Revenue mostly covers the cloud bill, not salaries yet.
- Q4 2026
Public API target
Targeted moment when we leave beta and start charging the open cohort. Conditional on AWS Activate Portfolio credits landing.
Three principles. We hire and fire by them.
Context is everything
A decision without context is a guess. We build systems that understand the full picture before rendering a verdict.
Explainability is accountability
Platforms answer to regulators, users, and creators. Every flag we raise comes with a reason they can quote.
Built for the real internet
Our training data includes content from West Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, not just English-language Western media.
Open roles for one reviewer and one infrastructure engineer, based in Enugu.
We are four people in our second year of operation. No thirty-tier career ladder, no remote-only policy, no growth-at-all-costs mandate. Bring a portfolio of moderation calls you would defend out loud and a willingness to relocate to Enugu State.