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In 2015, a woman named Babajuji died in Jigawa State, Nigeria. With her went Kwarkwanchi, thirty-four sounds, a grammar found nowhere else on Earth, a way of seeing the world that took generations to build and one heartbeat to end. She's not alone. She's one of hundreds. In the Peruvian Amazon, Taushiro is down to a single living speaker, a man named Amadeo García García. In Japan, Ainu is spoken by only a handful of elders. In Ethiopia, Ongota has fewer than 10 speakers left, all elderly. And in Nigeria alone, dozens of languages are standing where Kwarkwanchi once stood, one generation from silence. These aren't just words disappearing. They're rituals, proverbs, lullabies, the way a grandmother once explained the rain. None of it written down. All of it carried in memory. All of it one heartbeat from gone. This isn't a story about the past. It's a countdown happening right now, in villages most of the world will never hear of, in tongues most of the world will never know they lost. We built Auvra because we refuse to let "gone" be the end of the sentence. We're not asking you to watch this happen. We're asking you to help stop it. We're looking for 100 people to join us as founder testers. Storytellers who carry oral history. Linguists who study what's disappearing. Artists and ceramicists who preserve culture through their hands. Musicians who keep rhythm and language intertwined. Educators who teach the next generation. Technologists who believe tools can hold what memory alone cannot. Not spectators. Not bystanders. 100 people willing to stand behind the idea that no story should die because no one was listening. If that's you, this is your moment. Join us. Be one of the hundred. Help us make sure the next Babajuji isn't the last voice anyone hears. https://lnkd.in/dSEX_pK4

The Alaafin of Oyo is calling on African nations to document their cultural heritage before it is lost. He is right. Oral traditions, languages, and histories are disappearing. And we have the tools to stop it. Auvra is building the permanent home for human culture. A place where languages, oral histories, and traditions are preserved forever. This is what we are building. This is why it matters. Join our Founding Testers. www.goauvra.com/waitlist

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Excited to share that I've just joined Auvra as Product & Growth Manager. Auvra is building the permanent home for human culture, a blockchain-based platform where creators, communities, and families can preserve, own, and pass down their cultural heritage. I'm joining pre-launch, which means I get to help shape what this product becomes from the ground up. Day one was already deep - alignment calls, MVP scoping, and setting the foundation for how we build. This is the kind of work that matters beyond metrics. Culture is identity. And when it's gone, it's gone. Let's build something that lasts. #ProductManagement #BuildingInPublic #CulturalHeritage #Blockchain #Auvra

Every two weeks, a language dies. With it, centuries of oral traditions, stories, and wisdom vanish forever. We are building Auvra to change that. The permanent home for human culture. Backed by NVIDIA Inception Program. Join our founding testers. goauvra.com/waitlist #Auvra #CulturalPreservation #DigitalHeritage

The last speaker of Caddo is gone. Edmond Johnson died on July 14, 2025, in Oklahoma, USA. He was 95 years old. He was the last fluent speaker of the Caddo language. For centuries, the Caddo people carried their history in their language. It was not just words. It was the sound of their ancestors, the rhythm of their ceremonies, the breath of their identity. Then came the boarding schools. Children were punished for speaking Caddo. They were beaten. They were forced to speak English. A language that had survived for over a thousand years began to fade, one silenced voice at a time. Johnson worked with Alaina Tahlate, the Caddo Nation's Language Preservationist, to document what he knew. He taught. He told stories. He refused to let go. When she felt the weight of the mission, he told her: "All you can do is your best." He told her about jumping out of a helicopter in Vietnam: "You only have to jump once to show yourself that you can do it." Now he is gone. Bobby Gonzalez, Chairman of the Caddo Nation, said: "Without language, culture and land, you're not a tribe anymore." The language is not dead. It is sleeping. But waking it requires everything. The global fight against language extinction cannot rely on memory alone. Technology must step in to safeguard what remains before it is silenced forever. That is why we built Auvra. Auvra is the permanent home for human culture. A place where languages are preserved before they disappear. Where the last speakers are not just recorded, but their knowledge is kept alive. Where no language ever has to sleep forever. We are launching soon. Before another story disappears, join the waitlist. https://lnkd.in/dv3TG3yn #Startups #CulturePreservation #CaddoLanguage #IndigenousLanguages #EndangeredLanguages #Auvra

A thousand years of dance. A generation walking away. We built Auvra so the stage never empties. Read below. Join us. #Auvra

Build the infrastructure for human culture. Join Auvra. Auvra is the permanent home for human culture. We are building a platform where creators, communities, and families can preserve, own, and pass down heritage across generations. We are backed by NVIDIA Inception and ElevenLabs. We have been building for five months. Our platform is 70% ready. Open Roles Frontend Engineer – React Native, TypeScript, mobile apps. Head of Partnerships / Ecosystem Strategist – Open doors. Build relationships with institutions, governments, and diaspora organizations. Graphic Designer / Visual Storyteller – Shape our visual identity. Design for a mission that matters. The Deal We are self-funded. We are sacrificing short-term cash for long-term ownership. If you need a stable monthly salary right now to pay rent, this is not the role for you. We completely respect that. But if you have a comfortable day job, or freelance runway, and you want to spend your nights and weekends building a legacy project backed by NVIDIA and ElevenLabs, we want to hear from you. Compensation: 0.5% to 1% Equity (depending on role and experience). How to Apply Send a short note about yourself and a link to your work to info@goauvra.com. #Auvra #Hiring #FrontendEngineer #Partnerships #GraphicDesigner

A 500-year-old miracle. Dying. Gucci buys Nigerian leather. The world calls it Italian. This is extraction. Not preservation. We built Auvra so the hands that make the culture also own its story. Read below. Join us. #Auvra