Simbi
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SimbiBot is an online learning platform that provides personalized education through lesson notes, video lessons, flashcards, and interactive questions. The platform serves secondary school students in Nigeria preparing for examinations like WAEC, NECO, UTME, and POST UTME, as well as schools seeking to enhance student learning outcomes.
Also known as Simbi Β· SimbiBot
Investors Β· 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026SimbiBot is an online learning platform aimed at Nigerian senior secondary school students in classes SSS1 to SSS3. It combines several teaching formats for each topic β short lesson notes, explanatory video lessons, flashcards, and interactive questions and answers β and positions this mix as a personalized route to understanding curriculum material.
Content is organized around the secondary school curriculum and spans science, social science and arts tracks, including Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Agriculture, Mathematics, English Language, Geography, Economics, Commerce, Financial Accounts, Government, Civic Education, Literature-in-English, CRS and IRS. The platform also provides assessments and performance reports that track learning progress, identify weak areas and issue recommendations for improvement. Students access the service through a downloadable application (32-bit and 64-bit builds are offered) and through a web sign-in portal at learn.simbibot.com.
Business model
SimbiBot distributes its learning application directly to students and parents, and separately markets to school owners, who can make the platform available to their students as an after-class learning supplement.
Traction
The website states the platform is trusted by more than 80,000 parents and students, and features testimonials from students describing use of the app in preparing for WAEC, NECO and JAMB/UTME examinations.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
The company presents itself as a curriculum-centred examination preparation app for Nigerian senior secondary students, citing a base of more than 80,000 parents and students.
SimbiBot pairs multi-format topic content with diagnostic performance reporting, and describes its school-facing approach as using the maieutic method of learning to develop students' creativity, curiosity, imagination and problem-solving skills.
Technology
The product is delivered as a downloadable desktop application in 32-bit and 64-bit versions alongside a web-based learning portal with individual student accounts. Learning content is structured per topic across notes, video, flashcards and interactive Q&A, with an assessment layer that generates performance reports highlighting weak areas and remediation recommendations.
Go-to-market
Direct-to-consumer app downloads supported by student testimonials, social sharing features, and Instagram and Facebook channels used to distribute examination-related educational content, alongside a school-owner offering that positions the platform as a technology-enhanced after-class resource.
Senior secondary school students (SSS1βSSS3) in Nigeria preparing for WAEC, NECO, UTME and POST UTME examinations; parents; and school owners seeking a supplementary after-class learning tool for their students.
Geography
Nigeria; the product is built around the Nigerian secondary school curriculum and national examinations (WAEC, NECO, UTME, POST UTME).
Compiled by commissioned research from 12 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 3
launches, deals, and filingsA solution submission for SimbiBot, team-led by Olawunmi Olaniyi and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, was published on MIT Solve's Equitable Classrooms challenge and last updated 16 June 2021.
Co-creation HUB Africa published a venture profile for Simbi, describing Simbi Interactives as an ed-tech using maieutic learning to make quality education available, affordable and accessible to African students; Segun Olamide Samuel is named in the listing.
The company rolled out SimbiBot, its AI-powered learning assistant, in 2019.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 12
primary sources listed
- Simbisimbibot.com Β· web
- Simbi - Co-Creation Hub Africa (CcHUB) : Co-Creation Hub Africa (CcHUB)cchub.africa Β· web
12 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Simbi do?
- Nigerian e-learning app giving senior secondary students lesson notes, videos, flashcards and practice questions for WAEC, NECO and UTME.
- Who are Simbi's investors?
- Simbi's investors include Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB).