01 / BUILD
MOTIF 54
Industry-led work across African energy, minerals, AI infrastructure, capital and institutional decision-making.
Sid Mofya
Capital. Infrastructure. Story.
Sid Mofya is a Zambian builder and writer based in Silicon Valley, working across capital, infrastructure and story.
Partner Room and executive briefings are booking for Q4 →
Build · Publish · Imagine
02 / PUBLISH
23° SOUTH
Writing and frameworks for seeing the changing world from a different latitude.
Capital. Sovereignty. Technology. Culture. Institutions. The future.
03 / IMAGINE
KWAZURI
A living African storyworld spanning fiction, music, technology, ritual and play.
Working with Sid
Partner Room
Five venture investors reach a judgment on your company while you listen to the deliberation founders never hear.
Executive briefings
The Sovereign Stack, and facilitation for boards and investment committees with a decision in front of them.
Rooms held
MITAfrican Diaspora Investment SymposiumDraper Venture Network LP DayZambia US RoadshowDRC Investment ForumMobile World Congress (4YFN)TEC de MonterreyDeutsche BankTelefonica
Sid moderated a high-level conversation on investment in Africa for us, holding a room that included Zambia's Ambassador to the US and the Minister of Transport. He kept a demanding panel focused and made the substance land for the audience. A real asset to any serious convening.
About
Sid Mofya is a Zambian builder, writer and former venture executive based in Silicon Valley. He works across capital, infrastructure and story.
He is the founder of MOTIF 54 and creator of KwaZuri. His work spans African energy, critical minerals, AI infrastructure, venture capital, institutional decision-making and cultural worldbuilding.
Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Draper Venture Network, and as a Technologist at Royal Dutch Shell. He is a Kauffman Fellow and trained as a chemical engineer.