INVESTORS
Back a group, not a single bet.
One platform team, five products and one balance sheet. Investors in Tall Grass back the whole portfolio, not one product. Write to us for the investor brief.
Many blades. One field.
Tall Grass Group builds and runs software for schools, boards, savings clubs and traders across Africa.
- products in the group
- 5
- public officers in our current assessment programme
- 652
One team builds. Every product grows.
A single platform team writes the code, runs the data and keeps the lights on for every product. What we build for one, the others get for free.
Each product has one owner who answers for its customers and its numbers. The group gives them engineering, brand and finance, so they can spend their days on users.
We grow patiently. A product proves itself with real customers before we scale it, and we would rather compound for ten years than sprint for one.
Rooted
Built in Uganda, for Africa.
Patient
Prove it, then scale it.
Rising
Ambitious for everyone we serve.
Our products
OCAkademia
- Student records, admissions, marks, report cards and attendance in one platform
- Live since October 2026
Jovannotti
- University search, scholarships and managed applications for students and adult applicants
- Destinations starting with Italy, the USA and the UK
Rubikon
- Governance and competency assessment for boards and public institutions
- Live since 2025
- 652 public officers in the current programme
Driips
- Systematic trading research and the Driips Academy
- Academy launched 7 October 2026
- Seven-volume curriculum published · Volume 8 in November 2026
Wellth
- A platform for savings and investment clubs, run with licensed partners
- Uganda first, then Kenya and the region
Coming soon
And more to come.
Built once. Used everywhere.
01
Assessment engine
Timed tests, surveys and board evaluations with live scoring and analytics.
02
AI marking, human sign-off
Essays scored against a rubric in seconds, then confirmed by a facilitator.
03
Paper to data
Handwritten forms photographed on a phone and turned into clean records.
04
Multi-school tenancy
Every school or organisation gets its own walled space on one codebase.
05
Report studio
Report cards and individual development reports generated as Word and PDF.
06
Learning platform
Cohort-gated courses with progress tracking, shared by our academies.
The people
Jovan Kalyango
Founder and Group CEO
Data engineer and statistician. MSc in Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna and Utrecht University.
Margaret Wambui Njau
Co-founder, Jovannotti
CAREERS
Small teams. Real ownership.
Engineers, data people, educators and sellers who want their work to move a whole product. We list roles here as they open. Until then, write to us.