Andrew is a veteran entrepreneur in the Nigeria tech ecosystem who started building startups since his university days. In 2015 he co-founded ogaVenue, Nigeria's Largest online event venue booking portal with operation in 6 African countries which at its peak, before COVID 19 was doing 7 figures USD in Gross Merchandise Value. The platform was designed
to make it easy for an event host to search, check availability and book a preferred venue in minutes and now he is building Lenco.ng , a pan-African neo bank for businesses.
In this episode, we had a very beautiful conversation where we discussed,
Why he started OgaVenue and the Pivot to Lenco.
Impact of Covid 19 on Ogavenue.
Getting his first Investment from Jason Njoku and Hotels.ng in the early days.
Lenco's unique business model as it relates to the Nigerian investment landscape and more.