Eric Lunani builds technology companies from Nairobi, working across identity, AI in education, and public-sector technology.
Eric Lunani
Eric Lunani builds technology companies from Nairobi, working across identity, AI in education, and public-sector technology. He starts from a plain conviction: Africa should build sovereign capacity in the systems it will depend on, from how people are identified to how they learn and are governed, whether at home or through partnership, and on its own terms.
Born in Kenya in 2003 and raised between Kitale and Nairobi, he founded his holding company, HURMAN Group, at twenty. Each of his ventures takes on one layer of that work: the institutional groundwork for sovereign digital infrastructure, AI in the classroom, and biometric identity. HURMAN holds them together.
He is reading for a BBA at the University of London.
Autonomous Advancement Initiative
- Chief Architect
- A 2025 cooperation framework with Kenya's State Department for Foreign Affairs, signed on the government's behalf by PS Dr. Korir Sing'oei, to build the legal and institutional groundwork for sovereign digital infrastructure
- Pairs the state's convening and diplomatic reach with young founders' technical capacity, opening routes to investment and institutional support
Nova Garage
- Co-founder
- A founder platform co-created through the Autonomous Advancement Initiative, built to widen access to entrepreneurial skills and support for early-stage builders
- Its launch drew coverage from The Standard in April 2026
EDU AI Research
- Co-founder
- A youth-led continental initiative working to accelerate education and skills across Africa by putting generative AI in the hands of learners and teachers
- Piloting AI-driven assessment and feedback in Kenyan classrooms under a 2025 MOU with the State Department for Foreign Affairs, ahead of wider deployment
HURMAN Group
- Founder & Chairman
- Kenyan technology holding company and the base for Eric's research, advisory, and venture work; a long-term vehicle for building frontier companies from Nairobi
- Portfolio spans biometric identity, applied AI in education, and public-sector technology partnerships
- Within it, the Palm Identity Network is developing a contactless palm-vein recognition stack for authentication and payments, tuned for African identity contexts
Public engagements
- Nova Garage Summit 2026 — on the launch of the founder platform built through the Autonomous Advancement Initiative
- Africa-France Pre-Summit panel, 25th Kenya Model United Nations Annual Conference — Kenya School of Government, with Dr. Korir Sing'oei and H.E. Arnaud Suquet
Press
- Kenya banks on new innovation platform to enhance entrepreneurial skills — The Standard, on the Autonomous Advancement Initiative's co-creation of Nova Garage
Education
- Nova Pioneer
- BBA, University of London (distance)
Executive Education
- Leadership for Global Business and Politics — Yale School of Management