AI-Powered Student Talent Marketplace for Businesses

Empowering Tomorrow’s Leaders: Transform Your Talent Strategy with Adaku’s AI-Driven Student Support.

For Modern Organizations

Student Outreach at Scale

Empower your company to forge connections with future employees and cultivate resilient, innovative, and diverse workforces.

Design

Effortlessly Craft, Launch, and Establish Innovative Scholarship Programs or Resources that Perfectly Align with Your Mission and Goals.

Manage

From Program Setup to Grant Disbursement, Empower Your Company with Robust Analytics for Tracking Engagement Success.

Identify

Set Your Company Apart with Precision and Foresight, Identifying and Nurturing Future Leaders in a Timely Manner.

Track

Forge a Methodical and Strategic Approach to Monitor the Progress of Promising Talent as They Advance Toward Graduation.

A dual purpose marketplace

Aiming higher in education is crucial for fostering equal, innovative, and sustainable growth. We are a compass for students and companies alike that are navigating the uncertainties of going from classroom to career and addressing emerging workforce needs. Akama Fund provides clarity for students in their educational journey whilst Adaku unlocks the perfect talent to tackle increasingly complex business challenges.

A registered non-profit B2C app that’s a one-stop-shop for students seeking funding, career guidance, and resources, all wrapped up in a free and easy-to-use package. Donors can give directly while top companies contribute through our partner organization, Adaku, making it a life-changing experience for all.

Akama: The village is behind you

A B2B SaaS platform that has been developed in partnership with Akama Fund, aimed at enabling companies to engage the student community through essential funding, resources and recognition. The platform is powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence to facilitate the fulfillment of both corporate and social impact objectives.

Adaku: One who brings wealth

For Students

Guidance & Support Engineered

With Akama’s AI-powered assistant, students can easily explain who they are, what they’re studying, and share their passions and projects.

Join

An AI assistant helps students unlock a marketplace interested in supporting.

Match

Students connect relevant skills to less obvious opportunities in a secure way.

Apply

With AI-enabled forms and processes, the fund-seeking process is simplified for students.

Network

Students navigate industries to get the confidence to go where skills are valued.

For Modern Philanthropists

AI-Powered Endowment

Create, Share, and Grow Your Personalized Scholarship Fund: Shape a Modern Legacy with Adaku’s AI-Powered Endowment.

Create

AI-powered tools for supporters to create impactful funds. Reaching a broad audience becomes accessible to everyone.

Crowdfund

Supporters team up with friends and family to redefine what it means to make a positive impact.

Impact

Tailored to align with supporters’ interests, the tool is intelligent and adaptive to ensure contributions create lasting change where it matters. Welcome to a smarter way of giving.

Unlock the Potential of Student Talent:
Identify and Support Skills Early

Optimize Talent Sourcing with Adaku’s Strategic Approach for HR, Leaders, and Employees.

HR

Leveraging workforce insights and talent data, HR strategically supports organizational objectives, implementing innovative student engagement approaches.

Leaders

Leaders can identify emerging talent in their sector, proactively contribute to career growth, and foster team engagement by initiating meaningful career conversations with students.

Employees

Employees proactively connect with prospective team members in the early stages and have the opportunity to contribute their time or have their funding matched within the marketplace.

Talent Use Cases

In the current business climate, companies must prioritize several key factors to future-proof the workforce. These include diversifying talent sourcing, creating and propagating a strong employment brand and strategically leveraging AI and technology.

Akama

Engineering scholarship recipient in 1989. Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Management Expert

Adaku

Nursing and Midwifery scholarship to return to higher education after raising her family.

OUR STORY

At the tender age of one, Virgil Akama was thrust into a life without parents.

Raised by a small village in Nigeria, his resilience to excel in his studies brought him unimaginable success; he secured a scholarship that changed not only his own destiny but future generations as well.

Today, Thelma takes direct inspiration from her father and mother’s journey by creating & leading this unprecedented organization to support others in changing theirs.

Vision

A world where every student is able to pursue a fulfilling career, and in turn, help the generations after them to achieve the same.

Physiological Needs

Helping Students Cover the Basics: Food, Bills, and Travel.

Career Pathways

Boosting students confidence to go where skills are valued.

Network and Belonging

Introducing students to industries with hands-on experience and mentors.

Talent Sourcing

Identify and support skills and demographics within the students population.

Benefits Distribution

Increase your brand visibility and consumer base by targeting burgeoning demographics.

Social Impact

Focus on addressing key impact areas, even if they fall outside your industry.

Why Now?

Thelma Onyeka

Founder
Global Strategy, Programs & Scaled Engineering, Meta

Now is the Optimal Moment: Join Adaku in Bridging Gaps, Leveraging AI Technology, and Preparing Businesses for the Future.

Cost of living

The increasing cost of attending universities is contributing to a growing gap, which may result in a reduction of students enrolled in technical disciplines.

Open-source AI

LLM technology and availability has expedited the realization of our objectives, rendering our services more cost-effective. We leverage research and automation to facilitate efficient and scalable solutions for various industries.

Skills Gaps

Optimized talent sourcing is now more than ever considered a competitive advantage. As the transition to AI-assisted recruitment gains momentum, businesses are eager to prepare themselves for the future.

Milestones

Our First Corporate Award Recipient

Microsoft invitation to Showcase our Impact at TechCrunch Disrupt and Build AI.

sourcing, identifying, and attracting talent Like Its 2030

OECD projected number of students in tertiary education globally, a 46% increase from 2020.

Higher education is vital for fostering equal, innovation-driven and sustainable growth.

Skills Mismatches

Quality issues plague many high- & middle-income countries’ higher education systems, despite substantial investments, leading to persistent skills mismatches.

Lack of Direction

While most countries recognize the crucial role the sector can play in their advancement, the tertiary education sector is in many cases a ship without a map and a compass.

Digital Divide

Digitalization is seen as a powerful tool for equity, but limited connectivity and access to devices create disparities, hindering the most disadvantaged students’ ability to benefit from continuous learning.

Key reforms

Digital access & access to resources, adequate student steering, skills alignment.

Key Platform Features

Direct giving to students via Akama: Eliminate the need for intermediaries that limit the amount a student can receive.

Transparency: Track how your funds are used from covering a week of travel costs to paying tuition for ten students.

Tax benefit: Claim tax benefits for your contributions to your fund, providing a further incentive to give.

Connect with Us: Reach Out to Akama Fund for Charitable Partnerships and Adaku for Business Inquiries.