Stanford CS '28 — Full Leland Scholar

Selorm Magnus
Avakame

Founder, AI engineer, and IPCC youth delegate. Building technology companies at the intersection of AI, climate, and Africa.

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Selorm Magnus Avakame
Accra · StanfordPlate 01
(01)Ventures

Two companies.
One mission.

Building at the intersection of AI, climate, and African innovation. Each company fills a gap the world hasn't closed yet.

Katalyze Africa Group

Founder & CEO
5+
Countries

Pan-African accelerator connecting student-led startups with mentors, capital, and global networks across 5+ countries.

Stanford Haas partnership2× Service Fellow6 campus chapters

Gatherhub LLC

Co-Founder
AI-powered
Coordination

GatherHub is an AI-powered event coordination platform that simplifies planning for everything from weddings to parties. It acts as a smart layer that helps organize details, manage guests, and coordinate vendors, making events easier to plan and execute.

AI-powered coordinationVendor managementGuest communication
(02)Journey

From Accra to Stanford.

Building, learning, and scaling — driven by the belief that technology should expand human potential.

2018

First lines of code

Began programming in Accra, Ghana. Built first applications and discovered a passion for solving real-world problems through technology.

2020

Hackathon champion

Won first place at the Academic City College Hackathon with Safe Circle — a safety application built with Flutter, Dart, and C++.

Represented Ghana at the national level.

2023

Stanford, full Leland Scholar

Arrived at Stanford University on a full Leland Scholarship to study Computer Science with an AI track.

Selected as one of only 8 Ghanaian youth delegates to the IPCC.

2026

Co-founded Gatherhub LLC

GatherHub is an AI-powered event coordination platform that simplifies planning for everything from weddings to parties. It acts as a smart layer that helps organize details, manage guests, and coordinate vendors, making events easier to plan and execute.

2026

Founded Katalyze Africa Group

Launched a pan-African accelerator to connect student-led startups with mentors and capital. Built a network across 5+ African countries.

Next

The vision ahead

Raising capital to Katalyze Africa. Building AI-powered companies that expand human potential and create opportunity at scale.

(03)Beliefs

Technology should expand human potential.

01

AI should serve humanity

I build AI systems that augment human capability — not replace it. From agricultural foundation models to intelligent agents, every system starts with a human need.

02

Africa will lead the next wave

The youngest population on Earth, an exploding developer ecosystem, and problems that demand innovation. I’m building the infrastructure to catalyze this transformation.

03

Founders create the future

Technology companies are the most powerful vehicles for change. Small teams with deep conviction, moving fast on problems that matter.

(04)Products

Shipping products that matter.

Production systems and AI platforms with real users — not side projects.

AI Foundation Model

AgFM-1

Multimodal agricultural AI foundation model at American Tractor Company. Computer vision, NLP, and predictive analytics for precision agriculture. Deploying on edge hardware for real-time field inference.

PythonPyTorchComputer VisionTransformersEdge AI
World’s first multimodal agricultural AI
Shipped iOS

Drop It Off

End-to-end logistics platform for last-mile delivery. Firebase backend, real-time tracking, and live data sync.

SwiftFirebaseiOS
AI System

CS124 AI Booking Agent

Movie recommendation + ticket booking agent with ReAct framework. Autonomous tool orchestration and multi-step reasoning.

PythonDSPyReAct
1st Place — National Hackathon

Safe Circle

Community safety application with real-time alerts, geofencing, and emergency response coordination.

FlutterDartC++

Stanford CS

AI Track · ’28Full Leland Scholarship

2× Haas Fellow

Service AwardStanford Haas Center

IPCC Delegate

United Nations1 of 8 for Ghana

1st Place

National HackathonAcademic City ’23

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