Nigerian startup Cencori builds AI infrastructure layer to secure production apps

April 29, 2026 Connecting Africa pan-africa 772 words

TL;DR

Lagos-based Cencori, founded in June 2025 by Bola Banjo, Daniel Oreofe, and Ladipo Samuel, offers a unified AI gateway that secures, routes, and monitors LLM API requests for production applications, positioning itself as 'the Cloudflare for AI production.'

Cencori has grown past 200 users organically with zero marketing spend, remains bootstrapped, and is in early funding discussions with at least one tier-one Nigerian bank around enterprise features like role-based access control and global compliance audit logs.


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