About Limestone · Est. 2021

We're building the operating system
for Nigerian estates and schools.

Bringing payments, access, security and everyday operations into one connected platform, built in Lagos by people who understand how these spaces work.

OUR THESIS

Estates and schools in Nigeria deserve infrastructure built for how they actually operate. Limestone brings software, operations and physical infrastructure together in one connected system built in Lagos for the work on the ground.

The Limestone team reviewing a protected-community site plan in Lagos
Built in Lagos · For the work on the ground
Software, operations, and physical infrastructure designed together.
9,400+
StoneCircle users
100+
Protected spaces
₦500M
Collected through Limestone
97%
Average monthly collection rate
What we believe
01 / FIVE
Peace of mind is infrastructure. It's not a feeling the gate guard hands you on entry, it's a system you can audit, measure, and improve.
02 / FIVE
Software for African communities should be built in Africa. The pickup line at a Lagos primary school looks nothing like one in Palo Alto and the system that runs it shouldn't pretend otherwise.
03 / FIVE
The hardest user isn't the resident, it's the security personnel at the gate at 3 a.m. We design for them first.
04 / FIVE
If our system goes down, the community pays the price. That's why uptime, latency, and offline tolerance aren't engineering footnotes for us, they are the product.
05 / FIVE
A reminder is a request. A lock is a consequence. When a payment rule has been agreed, the system should apply it consistently and release it automatically when payment is made. We build the lock.

We started Limestone because
nobody else was going to.

How a 15-year tech career came home to solve the most ordinary, most overlooked problem: making a Nigerian community work.

Before Limestone, our CEO spent 15 years in tech at Microsoft, building infrastructure that companies in 70 countries depend on. He's an IVLP alumnus, a builder by training, an operator by temperament.

But he kept noticing the same thing every time he came home: the WhatsApp group for his parents' estate had 1,200 unread messages. The gate logged visitors in a notebook that no one read. The dues collection rate was a number the chairman knew off the top of his head, and not for good reasons.

Nigerian estates aren't failing for lack of trying. They're failing because the operational work, including security response, dues collection, communication, utilities and complaint resolution, is held together by goodwill, paper and people remembering things they shouldn't have to remember.

Limestone is what happens when you decide that work deserves real software. The kind that handles the boring parts reliably enough that the people running the community can finally do the meaningful parts.

We started in Lagos in 2021. We're still here. We pick up the phone.

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What we're not.

We are not a WhatsApp replacement, and we are not just a CCTV installer. We are an operational infrastructure for protected communities, the system of record for access, money, and response.

The team that
shows up.

Limestone is fewer than 20 people. Every one of them touches a customer in their first 30 days. This is who you'll meet.
Real faces are coming to this page. We're a working team, not stock photos.

Ifeanyi Aneke, Founder and CEO of Limestone Technologies
Founder & CEO

Ifeanyi Aneke

After watching Nigerian estates run on goodwill and WhatsApp groups.

15+ years in technology across Microsoft and the broader enterprise software world. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumnus. Founded Limestone after repeatedly encountering the same operational, security, payment, and community-management challenges while managing his own estates and deciding to build the infrastructure he wished already existed.

Microsoft alum IVLP fellow Based in Lagos
Amaka Ezekwesili

Amaka Ezekwesili

Programme Coordinator

Abigael Oluwagbemiro

Abigael Oluwagbemiro

Product Manager

Chidinma Okwuaka

Chidinma Okwuaka

Product Manager

Jennifer Chiagozie

Jennifer Chiagozie

Head, Customer Support

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We're hiring across engineering, sales, and operations. See open roles →

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