• The tech entrepreneur leads Qwiper, a Niamey-based digital solutions startup.

• The company offers AI-powered tools, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure services.

• Its locally built super-app centralizes key digital services for users and businesses.

Issoufa Abdou, a Nigerien computer scientist and tech entrepreneur, is the founder, CEO, and CTO of Qwiper, a digital transformation startup launched in May 2024 and headquartered in the Lazaret district of Niamey.

Qwiper develops technological solutions to help organizations and individuals advance their digital transformation. The company designs tools to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and support business growth.

The startup provides artificial intelligence solutions and application security services to protect infrastructures and sensitive data. It manages the design, migration, and administration of optimized infrastructures, secure backups, and managed services for servers, emails, files, and databases.

Qwiper has also created a fully homegrown national super-app powered by AI, which centralizes essential digital services to simplify daily life. The app offers access to news, local networks, messaging, a marketplace, job offers, and events. A business-oriented version, Qwiper POS, supports sales tracking, inventory management, finance monitoring, and employee oversight.

Abdou holds a master’s degree in software engineering from the Private School of Engineering of Niger, earned in July 2025. His professional journey began in 2020 at Karatou Post Bac, an educational technology startup, where he worked as a software developer.

He later joined Novatech Niger as a web and mobile developer from 2020 to 2024 and moved to Otechma in 2022, where he became a software developer before being promoted to technical director in 2024. In 2023, he also served as a trainer in artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Niger.