Founder & CEO
Jeff Simeon
Founder & CEO · Software Development
Visionary technologist, entrepreneur, and the founder of Noirgate Technologies, building the technology backbone for the next generation of African innovation.
The conviction is simple: Africa is not waiting on technology. We're building it. The next generation of category-defining products will be designed, engineered, and operated from here.
Mission
A continent of builders.
Noirgate exists for a single reason: to build the technology backbone for the next generation of African innovation.
We don't see Africa as a frontier or a market. We see a continent of builders, engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs who deserve world-class technology partners, world-class education, and world-class platforms. So we build those things ourselves.
Every product we ship, every platform we operate, every student we teach is a step toward an Africa that designs, engineers, and exports the technology the world will use.
Journey
The road so far.
2018
Started programming
First lines of code, first websites — the obsession started early.
2020
Built first SaaS
Shipped a production product to paying customers. Learned what shipping really means.
2023
Founded Noirgate
Started the studio to build the technology backbone for African innovation.
2026
Building Africa's future
4 platforms, 50+ projects, a growing academy — and just getting started.
Vision
“The next decade of technology will not be written in Silicon Valley alone.It will be written in Lagos, in Nairobi, in Cape Town, in Accra. We're here to help write it.”
— Jeff Simeon, Founder & CEO
What we stand for
Three principles. Always.
01
Excellence
Craft matters. Every detail, every line of code, every pixel — it all compounds.
02
Impact
We measure success by what changes in the world, not by what we build.
03
Africa-first
We build for our continent first. Everything else scales from there.