# MainOne: robotics company

Canonical ID: `70cf4c3b-752a-442b-bee1-30569d24fdc1`

## Key facts

- **Founder:** [Funke Opeke](/people/funke-opeke.md) (Founder & CEO)
- **Parent:** Equinix (acquired 2022, US$320M)
- **Founded:** 2008 by [Funke Opeke](/people/funke-opeke.md)
- **Facilities:** Nigeria (Lagos), Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire
- **Capacity:** 6 MW operational (Lekki campus)
- **Tier:** Tier III
- **HQ:** Lagos, Nigeria
- **Parent company:** Equinix (acquired December 2022 for approximately $320 million, per widely reported deal terms)
- **Ownership pre-acquisition:** Privately held by Main Street Technologies, Africa Finance Corporation, Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund, and Nigerian banks
- **Datacenter subsidiary:** MDXi, operating Tier III facilities across West Africa
- **Flagship datacenter:** MDX-i Lekki (Lagos), opened 2015 and described by the company at launch as Nigeria's largest Tier III facility
- **Operating regions:** Nigeria (Lagos, Sagamu), Ghana (Accra/Appolonia), Cote d'Ivoire (Abidjan)
- **Submarine cable asset:** Roughly 7,000 km open-access subsea system from Seixal (Portugal) to Lagos with landings in Accra and branches serving Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire; commissioned July 2010
- **Cable design capacity:** 1.28 Tbit/s dual fiber pair DWDM at launch, later upgraded
- **Market impact at launch:** Offered international bandwidth at under 20% of prior SAT-3 pricing into West Africa
- **CEO / founder:** [Funke Opeke](/people/funke-opeke.md), Nigerian electrical engineer (Obafemi Awolowo University, Columbia), previously executive director at Verizon and senior roles at MTN Nigeria and NITEL
- **Strategic role post-acquisition:** Anchors Equinix's West African footprint; first Equinix presence in the region

- **Slug:** mainone
- **Founded:** 2010
- **HQ:** Lagos, Nigeria
- **Funding total (USD):** 320000000

## Models

- [MainOne Lagos Tier III](/models/mainone-lagos.md) (other) (id: `84be51df-bc60-4918-b6c6-8abcdda6df48`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Funke Opeke](/people/funke-opeke.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is MainOne?

MainOne is a Lagos-based West African connectivity and datacenter operator founded in 2008 by Nigerian engineer Funke Opeke. It launched what was then the region's first privately owned open-access submarine cable, a roughly 7,000 km fiber system stretching from Portugal to Nigeria (with branches to Ghana, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire) that went live in July 2010 and broke SAT-3's pricing monopoly on international bandwidth into West Africa.

### What does MainOne make?

MainOne has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: MainOne Lagos Tier III (MainOne builds physical robots).

### Is MainOne publicly traded?

MainOne is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Datacenter on the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in MainOne?

MainOne has no separately traded stock; it is owned by Datacenter (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).

### Where is MainOne headquartered?

MainOne is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

### How much funding has MainOne raised?

MainOne has raised approximately $320M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Who owns MainOne?

MainOne is owned by Datacenter, per the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does MainOne operate robots?

MainOne is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### When was MainOne founded?

MainOne was founded in 2010.


## Sources (5)

1. https://www.mainone.net/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_One
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funke_Opeke
4. https://www.mainone.net/about-us/
5. https://www.equinix.com/newsroom/press-releases/2022/12/equinix-completes-acquisition-of-mainone-establishes-major-edge-of-the-internet-in-africa

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

_API: GET /v1/companies/70cf4c3b-752a-442b-bee1-30569d24fdc1 · canonical URL: /companies/mainone_