This episode features Segun Adeyemi who built and exited Amplify payment to OneFi (Carbon) in March 2019. Segun started out as an investment banker with a career goal to become the Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria until he caught the tech bug.
He recently served as the country Manager of Jumo in Nigeria which is a market leading banking as a service platform, enabling real-time access to funds at the lowest possible operating cost. Jumo was recently valued at $400 million, according to The Times.
In this episode we discussed:
Segun’s journey through MEST.
Starting out Amplify pay and building it to over 1000 merchants and doing over 2 Million USD recurring revenue before acquisition.
Banking as a service & financial services play for businesses.
Importance of Bitcoin other exciting stuffs.
Check out Seguns's Map of Fin-tech and its key players in Nigeria (2020)analysis here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-fintech-2020-key-highlights-nigeria-segun-adeyemi/