Company profile
Indigenius AI Incorporated
Indigenius AI Incorporated (Indigenius AI), formerly the Centre for Digitization of Indigenous African Languages (CDIAL), is a voice AI infrastructure company based in Lagos. Founded in 2021, the company builds automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and multilingual AI models supporting 10 or more African languages in production, including Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Swahili, and Nigerian Pidgin, across the financial services, healthcare, and education sectors. Indigenius AI primary product offerings are Agents Studio, which enables enterprises to build and deploy multilingual voice AI agents for customer journeys including Know Your Customer (KYC), collections, and support, and Creative Studio, which provides AI-powered dubbing, voice cloning, and audio generation for media producers and broadcasters. The platform achieves sub-200ms latency and has processed over one million enterprise calls. Indigenius AI's Collective Intelligence Platform sources training data from over 14,000 African voice contributors.
- Sector
- Technology / Application Software
- Markets
- Nigeria
- Founded
- 2021
- Ownership
- Private
- Stage
- Startup
- Capital raised
- $250,000
- Employees
- 11-50
- Business model
- B2B Subscription, Transactional
Products and services
Agents Studio, Creator Studio (including voice cloning, video and audio dubbing, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text models)
Transactions
| Date | Transaction | Type | Value | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Jun 2026 | Cascador's Catalytic Fund invests USD 250k in Indigenius AI's operations in Nigeria | Venture Capital | $250,000 | Nigeria |
Source: Partner Researchers.