Technology from the Horn of Africa, built in Djibouti.
BayTechs (Baynadiif Technologies) is a technology company based in Djibouti. We build products for the Horn of Africa, East Africa and the Somali diaspora, designed for the realities of using technology here: unreliable connections, cross-border money, and markets that global platforms build for last.
How we build.
Built for the weakest connection
If it works in a market in Balbala on a three-year-old phone, it works everywhere. We design for that phone first.
Plain language
Our products say what happens, in the words people use, in English, French, Somali and Arabic. No jargon, no hype.
One parent, one standard
Every product shares the same design, the same account and the same care. Learn one, and you know them all.
Money should cross borders like messages
In seconds, at the cost of a message, into the currency you need. That is why Kaab and Dues exist.
We are building the tools we wished existed when we needed to reach family, send money home, or get medicine to a parent — and we are building them here.
BayTechs started in Djibouti, at the gateway between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, where trade has moved by dhow for a thousand years. Our mark — a mast and two lateen sails forming a B — is a reminder of that: the region has always moved goods, money and news across water. We want its technology to do the same.
We are a small team. We work in Djibouti and with the diaspora, and we hire people who have used the products their families depend on and know what is missing.
Djibouti
Headquarters, product and engineering. Plateau du Serpent, Djibouti city.
Hargeisa, Nairobi, Minneapolis
Where our users, partners and pharmacies are, and where we spend our time.
Say hello
hello@baytechs.co for partnerships, press and everything else.