Turyalai Tokhi
Chief Executive Officer
Sets the company's direction and the model that keeps it self-sustaining.
About
We build for the ones the world stopped looking for.
Learnistan exists to prove one thing: that world-class technology can be built by and for the communities the tech industry overlooks — and can stand on its own feet doing it.
The problem
Talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn't.
In Afghanistan and across displaced communities, brilliant women and young people are locked out — of classrooms, of the internet economy, of the tools the rest of the world takes for granted. The technology that could reach them is built for someone else, in another language, for another life.
What we do about it
So we build it ourselves.
We make products that meet these communities where they actually are — in their language, on their terms, with their dignity intact. And we build them from the inside: designed and made by people who have lived what our users are living. That is not charity. It is the reason our products work where outsiders' don't.
How we're built
Mission locked, by design.
Learnistan is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, majority-owned by the nonprofit LEARN. The structure is deliberate: it locks the mission permanently while letting us operate, raise investment, and grow like a real company. We can scale. We can't drift.
LEARN
NonprofitThe foundation — reach, trust, and access on the ground.
Learnistan
The companyThe engine — builds the technology and makes it sustainable.
The products
WellMate · LEARN AI Tutor · TechSpaceEach built for a community that needs it, each with its own identity.
The team
Built by people who've lived it.
Learnistan is led by a team that does not study these communities from the outside. We come from them.
Muhib Faizi
Chief Technology Officer
Leads engineering across the product family. Believes good code is a quiet form of care.
Munireh Hoseinzadeh
Senior App Developer
Senior on product. Mentors the developers coming up behind her. Ships.
Shahid Amini
Junior App Developer
Came up through the training himself. Now building the platform that trains the next cohort.
Mohammad Osman Daniel
Mental Health Practitioner
Shapes WellMate's tone, prompts, and safeguards. The reason it sounds human.
The vision
Where this goes.
In ten years, Learnistan will have reached millions of people the technology world forgot — growing from Afghan women and youth to underserved communities elsewhere, always building locally, always built to last. We are not trying to be the biggest technology company. We are trying to be the one that finally showed up.
Building the future for those the world overlooked.
Whether you're an investor, an institutional partner, or a builder looking for somewhere worth your time — there is a place for you here.