About
Who is behind RAPIA
A Congolese agency backed by a group that runs its own products — and would rather say what it cannot do than let you assume otherwise.
The agency
RAPIA is the artificial intelligence division of Rapyogo SARL, a company incorporated under Congolese law and registered in Goma. It operates from three locations — Goma, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi — with companies, NGOs, institutions and independent professionals.
The work fits in one sentence: moving an organisation from the stage where someone asks an assistant questions, to the stage where systems actually carry out work. In between there are processes to map, data to connect and teams to train. That is where we come in.
We resell no licences and are tied to no vendor. The model we choose depends on the problem to solve, not on a commercial agreement.
- Goma
- Av. Rwamichacha n° 30, Keshero
- Kinshasa
- 01, Av. OUA, Concession Procoki, Q. Basoko
- Lubumbashi
- 170, Av. Maniema, Q. Makutano
A group that uses what it sells
Most AI agencies have never had to run an AI system under real constraints: traffic, dropped connections, thin margins, users with no time to learn. Rapyogo has. Each service in the group has its own domain, and the artificial intelligence they run is the one we build.
Parent company — Rapyogo SARLViteat
Food delivery in the DRC, launched in 2023 as Rapyogo Food. Dark kitchens, a dedicated fleet, electric motorbikes, eco-friendly packaging — and AI in production for dispatch and delivery times.
RAPYCAR
Peer-to-peer vehicle rental in the DRC.
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The founder
Michel Bengana— Founder and CEO of Rapyogo SARL
Michel Bengana was born and raised in Bukavu. A psychology graduate, he turned to entrepreneurship for a simple reason: that is where he could take on the problems he saw every day.
His first venture, a fast-food outlet, showed him what was wrong with food delivery in the DRC: waste, delays, and a service out of reach for people with reduced mobility. In 2023 he launched Rapyogo Food — now Viteat — to answer it: dark kitchens, a dedicated fleet, electric motorbikes, and AI running dispatch.
As a person with albinism in a society where that still invites prejudice, he made inclusion a design criterion rather than a talking point: the group's products are built first for the people standard services leave out.
RAPIA grew out of that path. A psychology background is no detour for an AI agency: most projects fail not on the technology, but because nobody looked at how a team actually works before handing it a tool.
Education and skills
Psychology graduate
The training that shapes the method: understand a job before automating it.
Microsoft certification
Validated skills on Microsoft artificial intelligence technologies and services.
Anthropic certification
Validated skills on designing with and professionally applying Claude models.
Orange Corners DRC — 2024 cohort
Entrepreneurship support programme run by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Recognitions
These recognitions went to the founder and to the Rapyogo group — not to RAPIA as an AI agency. We cite them because they say something about how we work, not to pass them off as artificial intelligence awards.
GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize — African Top 602024
Michel Bengana was selected among the 60 best African agripreneurs of the pan-African GoGettaz prize.
The GoGettaz prizeTotalEnergies Startupper of the Year, DRC — Top 100
Among the 100 national finalists of the TotalEnergies challenge, which rewards projects with strong community impact.
The Startupper challengeOrange Social Entrepreneur Prize (POESAM) — DRC winner
DRC winner of the Orange prize rewarding socially driven technology initiatives across Africa and the Middle East.
The POESAM prize
What we do not publish
A consultancy is judged on its evidence. Here is the real state of ours — and the rule we hold ourselves to before publishing anything.
- No performance figure appears on this site unless it comes from a measured engagement and has been approved by the client concerned.
- No testimonial or client logo is published without written consent from the organisation named.
- The recognitions above link to the body that awarded them, and state plainly what they reward — the group, not the agency.
- An absence on this page is a real absence, not an outdated update.
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