About Veenode Learn

Global rigour. African ambition. One movement.

Veenode Learn is a registered institute training the next generation of AI and cybersecurity professionals, affordable, rigorous and built around real internship work.

Why we exist

A continent of talent shouldn't pay $20,000 to be employable.

The African tech market is starved for AI and security talent,and over-supplied with bootcamps that charge fees no junior can afford.

Veenode Learn was built to break that loop. We took a global institutional model, stripped out the cost, kept the rigour, and built a real internship into the end so graduates leave with experience, not just a certificate.

The Veenode Digital Agency funds the runway. Our learners become our pipeline. Our clients become their first reference.

Operating Values

Four things we won't compromise on.

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Rigour over hype

We do not chase tools. We teach the fundamentals that outlive every framework cycle.

02

Access at the price floor

African families should not have to mortgage land to learn AI. $200 is the rule, not a discount.

03

Practice, not theatre

Every module ends in a graded artefact. Every cohort ends in shipped client work.

04

Cohort, not isolation

You learn with people. Our community is what graduates name first when asked what changed.

Story

From a single agency to a cohort across a continent.

  1. 2022

    Veenode Digital Agency founded

  2. 2023

    First Veenode cohort,14 learners, all hired within 90 days

  3. 2024

    CLD spins out as a registered institution, pan-African mandate confirmed

  4. 2025

    Cohort 03,312 learners across 14 African countries

  5. 2026

    Cohort 01 opens · 1,200+ alumni network

Leadership

The team that built CLD.

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Dr. Femi Adesina
Founder & Director
PhD CS · 12 yrs in industry · ex-Microsoft
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Catherine Lapointe
Head of Curriculum
Polytechnique Montréal · 8 yrs in MLE
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Tunde Bamidele
Director of Internship
Lead engineer, Veenode Agency · 10 yrs
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Aïsha Diop
Head of Admissions
Ex-Andela · pan-African talent ops

Built for the next generation of African builders.