I could follow the news, but I couldn’t see the ecosystem

I subscribe to multiple technology newsletters and spend a lot of time following the state of tech as it evolves.

Funding announcements. Product launches. Acquisitions. Shutdowns. New accelerators. New cohorts. New founders. New ideas.

If you stay informed long enough, you begin to recognize patterns across the ecosystem.

But even with all that information, something kept feeling missing.

I could follow the news, but I couldn’t see the ecosystem.

There was no single place where the history of a company lived. No place where I could discover a startup founded three years ago and immediately understand who invested, which accelerator it came through, how many rounds it had raised, what it had become, and where it sat within the broader Nigerian tech landscape.

I wanted to track companies the way people track films, musicians, or historical events, not as isolated headlines, but as evolving stories.

The missing layer

What felt missing was not another newsletter or another funding tracker.

It was a structured database of the ecosystem itself.

A place where new companies are recorded from the moment they are founded. Where investors and funding rounds are connected to the companies they back. Where accelerator cohorts are preserved as part of startup history. Where shutdowns and exits are documented instead of disappearing from memory. Where startups can be followed as they evolve into scale-ups, groups, and eventually holding companies.

In other words, I wanted a living map of Nigerian technology.

Why Delphi exists

That is what Delphi was built to solve.

Delphi is an attempt to create a structured, searchable, and connected atlas of the Nigerian tech ecosystem, not just for what is happening today, but for how the ecosystem evolves over time.

The vision is simple:

Imagine Wikipedia and IMDb had a tech baby.

Wikipedia gives you knowledge. IMDb gives you relationships, timelines, credits, and history.

Delphi aims to do that for technology companies, investors, accelerators, funding rounds, acquisitions, shutdowns, and the people and institutions that connect them.

The long-term vision

Nigeria is the starting point. Africa is the ambition.

My hope is that Delphi becomes part research tool, part historical archive, and part intelligence layer for understanding African technology.

Not just a database you search.

A system that helps you understand how the ecosystem is being built.