About TaxStreem

We're building the compliance infrastructure Africa — and the world — has been waiting for.

Tax is one of the few certainties in business. Staying compliant shouldn't be one of the hardest. We're here to change that.

Why we exist

Remove the friction entirely.

Across Africa and emerging markets, millions of businesses want to do the right thing — keep clean books, invoice properly, and pay their taxes. But the tools and systems make it needlessly hard, turning compliance into a tax on time, money and peace of mind. We exist to remove that friction entirely — so compliance becomes automatic, affordable and accessible to everyone.

2024Founded
2Hubs — Lagos & Delaware
5Modules, one engine
The friction we remove
Manual processes

Hours lost to bookkeeping, invoicing and reconciliation done by hand.

Fragmented portals

Government systems that don't talk to each other — or to you.

Ever-changing rules

Tax rules that move faster than spreadsheets can keep up.

Missing APIs

Authorities with no way to file electronically — until now.

What guides us

A clear vision. A focused mission.

Our vision
To be Africa's most reliable tax and bookkeeping infrastructure — powering commerce to thrive.
Our mission
To eliminate every friction businesses and individuals in Africa experience with regulators — so they can focus on growing their businesses and crafts.
The people behind TaxStreem

Engineers, tax experts, designers and operators.

We've lived the problem from every angle — building products, running finance teams, advising on tax and scaling platforms — combining deep domain knowledge with world-class engineering.

Kelechi Ibe, Co-Founder & CEO

Kelechi Ibe

CEO

A distinguished Corporate and Tax Attorney with over a decade advising domestic and multinational organisations across tax, finance, corporate structuring, compliance and transaction advisory. Has worked at KPMG, Latham & Watkins, and Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, advising on transactions cumulatively exceeding US$4bn. 2nd Vice-Chair of the Taxation Committee of the NBA-Section on Business Law, and an ITR Tax Rising Star.

Ayo Samuel, CTO

Ayo Samuel

CTO

Background in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics and Quantitative Finance. A seasoned AI Engineer, ML Specialist and Solutions Architect with deep experience designing and scaling enterprise-grade intelligent systems across cloud, data engineering, MLOps and predictive modelling. Has architected AI platforms and driven adoption of mission-critical tech across fintech, telecoms, retail and enterprise. A Microsoft and Bank of America Certified AI Engineer and 3x AI Hackathon winner.

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