The work tech he founded offers many services that contribute to youth empowerment. Besides that, he coordinates many initiatives promoting entrepreneurship. 

Vivens Uwizeyimana (photo) is the founder and CEO of UmuravaWork, a work tech startup founded in 2020. Through his startup, he provides businesses with an AI-based talent marketplace with vetted freelancers, a workshop outsourcing, and an EdTech platform. 

UmuravaWork is “leveraging on the outsourcing, remote working, and freelancing industries to create massive digital jobs for African youth,” Vivens told The News Times in August 2022.

“This model complements the existing methodology of only thinking about local full-time jobs,” he added. 

Aside from his CEO duties at UmaravaWork, Vivens is also a business coach for Kigali-based consulting agency Innovation Creation Studio, since February 2022.  Since November 2021, he is also an ambassador of the Berlin-based Westerwelle Foundation for International Understanding, which aims to create “opportunities for young people in emerging and developing countries.”

In 2018, he co-founded AdvanceRwanda, an NGO formerly known as Impano Developer Initiative Organization. From 2018 to 2019, he was an assistant academic director for the higher education program Kepler.  Since 2022, he is the president of OVO Business Club Rwanda, an entrepreneurship support initiative. 

In August 2022, his work tech was selected among the 45 African beneficiaries of the  Future of Work Africa Accelerator program hosted by Village Capital. Two years earlier, the tech entrepreneur won $5,000 during the Youth Challenge Program hosted by Generation Unlimited Rwanda.

Melchior Koba