June 2024 - Community Update

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Founders YeleGroup
July 01, 2024

To our Early days supporters,

Wish you an amazing month of July!

Last month was such an intense month: from myself leaving my full-time job, relocating to Abidjan, completing the ALX Accelerator program and taking our products to market. But things are tracking well as you'll see on this email. There have been no major challenges we couldn’t handle. I’ve included more details on how you can help us in the coming month. For now let’s get started with the updates: 

Team:  We’ve welcomed 9 incredible talents in our team. (Now a team of 11). These new talents have backgrounds in software engineering, sales & marketing and come from 5 different African countries. 

BonTuteur: At our EdTech belt we have launched:

  1. BonTuteur, a marketplace connecting students with qualified tutors. And so far we had 70 tutors signups and built a pipeline of 1 736 tutors ready to engage.

  2. BTNext, a tailored support service for francophone students looking to study abroad. And we had 16 students signups. 

  3. Completed a B2B partnership with Salon Universitaire Britannique, a leading student placement agency with a portfolio of 100+ universities in France, USA, Canada & UK.

AlphaYele: At our creative and technology agency this month was focused on setting up our internal infrastructure. And we did make some progress. 

  1. We released the agency official website (link here) and had over 2500 unique organic visitors, plus some nice feedback from friends and family on the design. 

  2. We completed the deployment of our internal CRM to streamline our sales & customer support activities. 

  3. We also completed Alpha Insight Dash, an internal data dashboard helping us with market and industry key insights. 

Goals for July 2024

Products: We’re aiming to release the first version of: 

  1. BTonline: An AI-powered chatBot helping high school & university students better prepare for their exams.

  2. Aplini: An AI-powered job assistant that helps job seekers apply to 1000+ jobs in seconds by just uploading their resume.

  3. Alpha Influencer: An influencer booking platform allowing businesses to partner with francophone Africa top creators on the go. 

Growth 

  1. Undertake different online & offline marketing campaigns to recruit 200+ qualified tutors. 

  2. Drive more revenue by closing 35 customers for AlphaYele. 

  3. Launch the waiting list for Aplini with the aim of getting 300 signups during the first week. 

Hiring: We’re expecting to welcome new talents at BonTuteur & AlphaYele. 

How can you help  

  1. We’re open for any media coverage opportunities with Africa focus media. 

  2. Recommendation of our solutions & services to anyone in your network who might be interested. 

  3. Intro to any potential angel or early stage investors & mentors. 

To my co-founders & the team, none of the things above would have been possible without each of you. So I want to say thank you for the hard-work and dedication. I appreciate y’all. 

This is just month 1 of our journey and I firmly believe that if we continue to execute with the same level of intensity and urgency we will definitely realise our common goal: Build the Africa we want for the future generations. 

Thanks for reading and See you next month ✌🏾

Written by Ibrahima Sylla, on behalf of the AfricaYele Group Team.