Our mission

A continent that
builds its own.

Navon puts real deep technology within reach across Africa, so its builders can create value and build self-sufficient economies. The vision behind it: bring Africa into the AI age.

The standards we hold to

Sovereign. Sustainable.
Accessible.

These are the standards we hold ourselves to, and that customers and partners can hold us to. Every site, every layer and every partnership answers to all three.

01

Sovereign.

Regions keep control of their data, infrastructure and digital future. Residency by physical fact, not policy promise: hardware sits in your jurisdiction, keys are held in-country, operators are local, and audits happen in person.

100%in-country
Defaultsovereign HSM
Day 1PQC ready
02

Sustainable.

Built on clean, resilient energy that scales within real environmental limits. Geothermal, hydro and solar chosen at the source, not bought as offsets. Diesel is emergency backup, never primary, and PUE is measured under load.

95%+clean baseload
1.29validated PUE
30-50%energy savings
03

Accessible.

Locally available, usable and affordable, through open platforms and a price point that growth-market institutions can clear. GPU hours without USD subscriptions sized for Silicon Valley, and an environment live in 60 seconds.

30-50%below hyperscalers
USD · KESpriced in
<60sspin-up
Who we build for

One stack,
every stakeholder.

The same vertically integrated platform adapts to where you operate, what you need to keep sovereign, and how fast you need to ship. Pick the row that fits you.

01 / Cloud Providers

Affordable, secure compute
where energy is the constraint.

For cloud operators, MSPs, and regulated platforms that need carrier-neutral space for AI compute and secure storage in markets where power is the binding constraint. Bring your hardware into Tier III, geothermal-powered modular data centres, at 30 to 50% below comparable hyperscaler cost.

CARRIER-NEUTRAL

Land on any network.

Multi-carrier fibre and open cross-connect. No single-operator lock-in.

TIER III MDCs

Concurrently maintainable.

Factory-built modular DCs, N+N power and N+1 cooling. Maintenance never takes your floor down.

20 kW+ PER RACK

Built for AI density.

High-density racks for GPU inference and training, not 5 to 8 kW colo cabinets.

95% GEOTHERMAL

Green baseload power.

Clean geothermal your customers can carry into their own reporting.

Validated PUE
1.29
at 400 kW constant IT load
Renewable
95%
geothermal baseload at Hells Gate
Cloud rev / MW
$20M
vs. $4M / MW for traditional colo
Certification
Tier III
concurrently maintainable · N+N
Where it fits

Co-location workloads.

Best-suited where density, sovereignty, or clean-energy procurement matters. If your platform is low-density and has no residency requirement, a hyperscaler region is usually cheaper.

AI inference hosting Secure regulated data storage Enterprise edge compute
Built with ↓ NVIDIA Delta Electronics Atlancis Asterfusion MAST Energy Developments Safaricom

Need carrier-neutral capacity?

Tell us your rack count, power density, and residency requirements. We'll return an indicative capacity plan and pricing for Tier III space at Hells Gate.

03 / Enterprises

Next-gen compute,
sovereign and low-cost.

For banks, telcos, energy companies, and regulated enterprises running AI, HPC, and analytics that have to stay in-jurisdiction. Private cloud on Navon-owned hardware, priced for growth markets, with the ergonomics your engineering team already expects.

PRIVATE CLOUD

Sovereign private cloud.

Bare-metal, VMs, GPU pools, and managed inference on a full sovereign stack, white-label ready.

RESERVED CAPACITY

Predictable pricing.

Annual commitments with reserved-capacity discounts. No pay-per-second surprises.

COMPLIANCE

Regulatory posture by design.

Kenya DPA 2019, GDPR-aligned logs, RBAC, and sovereign HSM keys, built in.

APPS & AGENTS

Sector AI, ready to deploy.

Composable agents, reusable skills, and sector apps on your sovereign cloud.

Cloud rev / MW
$20M
vs. $4M / MW for traditional colo
Validated PUE
1.29
at 400 kW constant IT load
Renewable
95%
geothermal baseload at Hells Gate
Redundancy
N+N
Tier III · concurrently maintainable
Where it fits

Enterprise workloads.

We're best-suited where sovereignty, density, or proximity matters. If your workload is latency-insensitive, low-density, and has no data residency requirement, a hyperscaler is usually cheaper.

AI inference at scale HPC simulation Training fine-tunes Secure communications
Built with ↓ NVIDIA Delta Electronics Atlancis hosted.ai Kinesis Asterfusion MAST Energy Developments Safaricom Siscom

Ready to size up the workload?

30-minute scoping call to map your workload to the right product line and deployment shape. Indicative pricing under NDA.

02 / Governments

Sovereign compute and capability
that stays in the country.

For ministries, agencies, central banks, and security services that need their digital infrastructure and the skills to run it to stay inside the country. Built on hardware Navon owns and operates, on-soil, in-jurisdiction, auditable in person, run by local teams.

DATA RESIDENCY

By physical fact.

Servers in Kenya, operated by Navon, under Kenyan jurisdiction.

SOVEREIGN HSM

Keys stay in-country.

Hardware security modules under local jurisdiction. No cross-border key replication.

PQC + QKD

Quantum-safe from the start.

Post-quantum crypto embedded, with QKD from Africa's first operational test bed.

AUDITABLE

Audits happen in person.

Local engineering teams, physical site visits, and sovereign access logs.

In-country residency
100%
data, control and keys, all on-soil
Compliance
DPA
Kenya DPA 2019 + GDPR-aligned
PQC
Day 1
post-quantum cryptography embedded
Operators
Local
on-the-ground engineering teams
Where it fits

Government workloads.

From sovereign cloud baseline through to specialised enclaves for regulated programmes. Procurement-friendly contract structures and multi-year commitments available.

Digital ID & citizen services Sovereign AI Sovereign cloud baseline Secure communications

Government desk & procurement framework.

Dedicated engagement track for ministries, central banks, and security services. Compliance documentation, in-person briefings, and multi-year contract structures.

04 / Universities

Research compute,
priced for the institution.

Direct, dedicated access to Navon's data centre for every faculty where compute is the bottleneck between theory and practice. GPU, CPU/HPC, storage and sandboxes on sovereign infrastructure, billed annually in local currency. The talent and capacity-building side lives in Navon Futures.

vs hyperscalers
30-50%
cheaper than AWS or Azure for equivalent compute
data sovereignty
100%
Kenyan soil, Kenyan law, DPA 2019 by physical fact
spin-up
<60s
environment provisioning, no procurement cycles
scaling
100 MW
0.8 MW today, growing to 100 MW by 2035
60-SECOND SPIN-UP

JupyterHub via SSO.

Researchers and students live in under a minute. No local install.

DEDICATED ALLOCATION

Capacity that's yours.

GPU and CPU/HPC dedicated per institution. No inter-department contention.

QUANTUM SANDBOX

Real quantum, not simulated.

A sandbox for circuits, hybrid algorithms, and PQC research.

SOVEREIGN STORAGE

576 TB research repository.

On-site NAS for datasets, outputs, and archives. Never leaves Kenya.

Across the faculty

One contract. Every discipline.

One partnership agreement gives every faculty access through the right interface. Low-code workflows for non-engineering teams, JupyterHub notebooks for researchers, and full SDKs for engineering groups. The infrastructure scales to match what the institution needs, both today and as research programmes grow.

Computer Science Engineering Physics & Mathematics Life Sciences & Medicine Climate & Earth Science Social Sciences & Policy Information Science & IT Cross-faculty Research

University Partnership Programme.

Annual contract sized to the institution, from teaching-focused departments to multi-faculty research universities. Named account manager, dedicated onboarding, internship pipeline, and mentorship cadence are all included. Start with a 90-day pilot.

05 / AI Startups

The lowest cost
to train and serve.

For AI founders and engineering teams who need real compute at the lowest price they can find. Clean-energy GPU at 40 to 60 percent below hyperscaler rates, spun up in under a minute, with your data and weights staying in Kenya by default. Ship your model from the same infrastructure that enterprise and government already run on.

GPU ON DEMAND

NVIDIA GPUs, available now.

H100, A100, and RTX clusters. No minimum spend, no waitlist.

SOVEREIGN BY DEFAULT

Data stays in Kenya.

Your training data and model weights never leave Kenyan soil.

DEVELOPER-FIRST

Ship on tools you know.

Ollama, vLLM, JupyterHub, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

30-50% CHEAPER

Versus AWS or GCP.

Clean energy and local ops let us price below hyperscalers.

vs AWS / GCP
30-50%
lower for equivalent GPU configs
Spin-up
<60s
environment provisioning, no procurement
Data residency
100%
Kenyan soil · DPA 2019 by physical fact
Clean energy
95%
geothermal baseload · near-zero carbon
What you can build

Every AI workload, on Kenyan compute.

From pre-training to production inference, the full model lifecycle runs on infrastructure that's physically sovereign and commercially competitive.

Model fine-tuning Inference serving Research & experimentation Data pipeline & storage
Built with ↓ NVIDIA hosted.ai Ollama AI Kenya Alliance for AI QCentroid

Ready to start building?

GPU access from day one, with no procurement cycle and no minimum spend. Talk to us about your workload and we'll size a configuration that fits your stage and budget.

Not sure where you fit?

Most missions cross
more than one row.

Universities co-deploy with ministries. Banks contract through enterprise but pilot through research. Governments incubate startups inside sovereign clouds. We design the engagement around the actual workload, not the org chart.