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Company at a Glance
The facts.
- Full name
- Stardex Innovation
- Founded
- 2016 (repositioned 2025)
- Headquarters
- Nigeria (operating globally)
- Founder & CEO
- Emmanuel Kolawole
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Developer Tools
- Products
- 9 products across 3 lanes — Builders, Business, Individuals
- Flagship product
- ChallengeDojo (challengedojo.com)
- Consulting focus
- Agentic AI, RPA & Automation, AI Strategy, Training
- Community
- 200+ developers trained across Africa via the African Series
- Website
- stardex.co
- Press contact
- press@stardex.co
Founder
Emmanuel Kolawole — Founder & CEO
Emmanuel Kolawole is the Founder and CEO of Stardex Innovation, a global AI product company building intelligent systems, developer tools, and automation platforms. A UiPath MVP and AI engineer with over six years of experience in automation and enterprise software, Emmanuel has trained more than 200 developers across Africa through the African Series: Automation Student Developers initiative — one of the continent's largest grassroots automation training programs. He currently builds agentic AI systems for a Nigerian financial institution and leads Stardex's consulting and product development work. Emmanuel started Stardex during university as a web development company and has spent the years since repositioning it into the company it is today — rooted in Africa, built for the world.
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Milestones
Key moments in the Stardex story.
2016
The Beginning
Stardex was born in a university room.
Emmanuel started Stardex Innovation as a web development company while studying at university in Nigeria. The brief was simple: build websites, solve small business problems, learn by doing. The name felt bold. The ambition was bigger than the work at the time — and that was intentional.
2023
The Inflection
AI changed everything.
Large language models moved from research curiosity to production reality. Emmanuel joined a Nigerian financial institution as an AI engineer — building agentic systems, automation pipelines, and intelligent workflows at scale. The frustration that had been building for years became impossible to ignore: African businesses were being left behind in the AI transition, not because of lack of talent or ambition, but because no one was building for them.
2025
The Rebirth
Stardex became what it was always supposed to be.
The company was repositioned from the ground up. Not a web agency. Not a training school. A global AI product company — building intelligent systems, developer tools, and automation platforms with Africa at the centre of the vision. ChallengeDojo launched as the first public product. The consulting arm formalised. A product pipeline took shape. The mission became clear.
2026
Now
We are building.
Stardex is in full build mode. Multiple products in development. A growing team. A community of builders across Africa. And a belief that the continent's most important technology companies haven't been built yet — but they will be, and some of them will come from here.
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