Hakimu
Legal infrastructure for Africa
Hakimu is building the first search engine for the African legal system. Hakimu’s platform solves challenges faced by legal professionals across Africa by providing natural language case search, AI-generated summaries, and interactive case analysis. With endorsements from high-ranking judicial officials in Rwanda and Kenya, Hakimu is transforming judicial efficiency in East Africa by reducing case backlogs by months, facilitating cross-continental legal cooperation, and ultimately strengthening the rule of law.
Rawan Dareer is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Prior to founding Hakimu, Rawan clerked for the Rwandan Supreme Court, worked on developing a code of conduct for the Kuwaiti Parliament, proposed youth-centered policies to the UAE government, and received her master’s from Oxford University. Ahmed Ahmed, co-founder and CTO, is a PhD candidate in computer science at Stanford. Ahmed is a National Science Foundation Fellow, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and Emerson Consequential Scholar for his research in the evaluation of foundation models for social good.
