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Odunayo Eweniyi and her co-founders pivoted from a struggling job-matching startup after a social media post about a broken piggy bank. PiggyVest now counts millions of…
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji co-founded two of Africa’s best-known unicorn companies before he turned 30. His current bet is on early-stage founders and on training a generation of…
The Flutterwave chief executive left PayPal and Google to build payments infrastructure for a continent. Now he is buying open-banking startups and funding African AI.
A database trainee at Heineken became the founder of the payments company that Stripe bought in 2020. He has since turned his attention to football and…
After a difficult childbirth and years studying maternal health, Temie Giwa-Tubosun built LifeBank to find blood and deliver it to Nigerian hospitals fast. In 2019 it…
Founded in 2015 by two Nigerian software engineers, Paystack processed more than half of web payments in Nigeria by 2020, and is now part of Stripe.
Founded in 2016, Flutterwave grew from a payments start-up into a platform licensed in 34 African countries, and in 2026 acquired the open-banking company Mono.
In January 2021 Odunayo Eweniyi and Eloho Oname launched FirstCheck, an angel platform for women-led and women-focused startups across Africa.
A Nigerian-born lawyer and investment banker, Adebayo Ogunlesi founded Global Infrastructure Partners in 2006 after a career at Credit Suisse First Boston.
After several failed ventures, the founder of iROKO started a YouTube channel for licensed Nigerian films. It led to 25 million dollars of investment and 5,000…
A chartered accountant from Yaba College of Technology, Fola Adeola ran GTBank for twelve years, then turned to mentoring founders and building Nigeria’s internet cable.
Launched in Nigeria and Pakistan in January 2013, the online marketplace expanded to 35 countries. The business lesson is about breadth, and what happens when a…
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