• Net is a new Ivorian job platform helping young people access employment.

• The startup uses AI-based matching to link candidates with suitable opportunities.

• Founder Sébastien Kouassi is a two-time national award winner for digital innovation.

Ivorian software engineer and entrepreneur Sébastien N’Goran Kouassi is the founder of EmploiRapide.Net, a digital startup dedicated to improving youth employability in West Africa.

Launched in April 2025, EmploiRapide.Net offers an online job platform designed to make access to the labor market easier. It aggregates and centralizes thousands of job offers from both local and international companies.

The platform features an intelligent search engine that matches users with opportunities aligned with their skills, experience, and location. Candidates can upload their CVs and apply directly to suitable positions. Less than a month after launch, the site had already recorded more than 30,000 job searches.

In 2018, Kouassi created Mwaou, a web and mobile app for reconnecting with former classmates, followed in 2021 by mjChrist, a site for sharing Christian testimonies. He holds a master’s degree in computer systems and software engineering from the African School of Information and Communication Technologies (ESATIC) in Côte d’Ivoire, earned in 2021.

Alongside his entrepreneurial ventures, Kouassi has worked with several companies and institutions. In 2021, after an internship as a web developer at Inetum Côte d’Ivoire, he became a vTiger CRM consultant for the National Investment Bank (BNI) and SNEDAI.

In 2023, he worked as a freelance web developer for HST Protection, then as a software engineer at Y3 Audit & Conseils and Bridge Bank Group Côte d’Ivoire. Between 2024 and 2025, he served as a developer and automation tester at the Côte d’Ivoire Single Window for Foreign Trade (GUCE-CI).

His commitment to technological innovation has earned him recognition twice, as he received the second National Excellence Award for Best Young Digital Innovation Project in both 2023 and 2024.