Founded by Nati Gossaye, Langbot is a startup that aims to facilitate the learning of languages through the use of bots, these little robots, or more precisely interface that facilitates dialogue and various forms of conversation between a service and a consumer.

Introduce yourself and your journey

My name is Nati(Nathnael) and I’m the co-founder and CEO of Langbot. I was a Google Student Ambassador for my university & graduated with a BSc. in Computer Science about 4 years ago. Since then I’ve been working at various tech companies as a lead developer gaining experience working on large mobile & web projects.
What is your project and its mission? Do you have a video presentation?
LangBot is a gamified language teaching chatbot. Its currently available on Facebook Messenger and teaches French!

How did you get the idea to start your business?
I was building Telegram chatbots for fun when Facebook announced their Messenger Bot Challenge for the Middle East & Africa. I was also using apps to help me learn French at the time and not progressing well enough and i had the realization that a chatbot that emulates a personal tutor would be perfect for teaching languages so I excitedly started working on LangBot. I submitted it to the competition and we finally won $20,000 out of a 1000 submissions.
Can you introduce your team?
My co-founder Remi has a Master’s in Linguistics and his several years of experience teaching languages all over the world has led him to develop various methodologies for language acquisition. And I mainly work on the development side of things.

What is the problem solved by Langbot?
Despite all the solutions out there learning a language is still very hard.

What are the next steps ?
We’ve recently partnered with the biggest French school in Ethiopia, Alliance Ethio-Francaise, and have been running successful user tests with their students & Alliance Francaise has over a thousand campuses around the world.

What do you need and how can Seedstars / AfrikaTech help you?
We’re looking to raise a seed round to speed things up so the opportunities seedstars have setup for us are awesome.

What are the contacts of the startup? Website, email, Mobile / WhatsApp, links to social networks?
WhatsApp: +251913183582

About The Author

CEO AfrikaTech

Comme beaucoup de personnes j’ai connu l’Afrique à travers des stéréotypes : l’Afrique est pauvre, il y a la guerre, famine… Je suis devenu entrepreneur pour briser ces clichés et participer à la construction du continent. J’ai lancé plusieurs entreprises dont Kareea (Formation et développement web), Tutorys (Plate-forme de e-learning), AfrikanFunding (Plate-forme de crowdfunding). Après un échec sur ma startup Tutorys, à cause d’une mauvaise exécution Business, un manque de réseau, pas de mentor, je suis parti 6 mois en immersion dans l’écosystème Tech au Sénégal. J’ai rencontré de nombreux entrepreneurs passionnés, talentueux et déterminés. A mon retour sur Paris je décide de raconter leur histoire en créant le média AfrikaTech. L'objectif est de soutenir les entrepreneurs qui se battent quotidiennement en Afrique en leur offrant la visibilité, les connaissances, le réseautage et les capitaux nécessaires pour réussir. L'Afrique de demain se construit aujourd'hui ensemble. Rejoignez-nous ! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boubacardiallo

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