WE INVITED IBRAHIM ADEPOJU CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF TYMS AFRICA TO DISCUSS THE WORK THEY ARE DOING TO EASE ACCESS TO COMMUNITY LENDING IN NIGERIA AND THEIR RECENT EXPANSION TO UGANDA.

Ibrahim

Ibrahim Adepoju is a technology entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of Tyms Africa, a product of AjoPay Inc. AjoPay Inc is a financial technology company incorporated in Deleware, USA with the aim of providing alternative credit and finance to financially underserved micro-businesses in Africa through digital rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA).

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https://tyms.africa/

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WE INVITED TOM-CHRIS EMEWULU FOUNDER OF SFAN. WE EXPLORED HIS HARD JOURNEY TO SUCCESS AND WAS FACED WITH THE QUESTION ON WHETHER INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION PROGRAMS IN THE CONTINENT HAVE WORKED OR NOT. TOM IS FORBES FEATURED AND ALSO NASDAQ CELEBRATED ENTREPRENEUR.

Tom-Chris Emewulu is an exceptional leader whose work has created innovative change across organizations and communities and impacted millions worldwide. He has worked with several global entrepreneurs and executives to fuel innovation at the intersection of technology and social impact, including educating +20K students about the path to gainful employment and organizing startup events like Global Student Entrepreneurship Week, a growth-focused event with budding African entrepreneurs learning from investors and entrepreneurs from Africa, Silicon Valley, and beyond. When heʼs not leading his team to build the future of education in Africa and helping rising professionals create their dream companies through Stars From All Nations, he is telling African innovation stories or advocating for people-centred policies. He cares deeply about how data can empower young Africans, a desire that led him to establish Ghanaʼs premier digital career accelerator, ReadyforWork. Tom-Chrisʼ's work has been featured in Forbes, DW, Business Insider, SABC, Next Billion, and many other publications. He is the author of Breaking the Limits.

Ready for work/SPAN

https://readyforwork.africa/

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WE INVITED CHIDI NWAOGU CO-FOUNDER OF PUBLISEER AND THE SAVVY GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ENTREPRENEURS. CHIDI SHARED WITH US HIS JOURNEY AND HIS BRUTAL HONESTY ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICA.

Chidi

Chidi Nwaogu is a serial tech entrepreneur and software developer. He founded, grew, and sold two successful tech startup companies before he turned 24. Today, Nwaogu is a co-founder at Publiseer, one of the largest digital publishing companies in Africa, as described by Konbini. He is also a co-founder at Savvy, a global fellowship program that has helped over 7,500 young individuals from 156 countries to build sustainable and innovative businesses. Nwaogu is the winner of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2020, Africa’s Business Heroes Prize 2021, the Roddenberry Foundation Catalyst Award 2021, the HundrED Global Collection Award for Leading Education Innovation 2022, and the International Telecommunications Union Award for Global Innovation 2021, to mention a few. He is a French-African Foundation Young Leader 2021 (Paris), One Young World Ambassador 2021 (Munich), Dalai Lama Fellow 2022 (Virginia), Acumen Fellow 2020 (West Africa), Alibaba eFounders Fellow 2020 (China), Westerwelle Fellow 2019 (Germany), AfricanPLP Fellow 2019 (Cairo), and Yunus&Youth Fellow 2019 (New York). He has been recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Young Nigerians of the Year 2021” by RED Media.

Publiseer

https://publiseer.net/

Savvy

https://savvyfellows.com/

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WE INVITED ZACH GEORGE CO-FOUNDER OF LAUNCH AFRICA AND AFRICA'S LEADING ANGEL INVESTOR TO DISCUSS INVESTMENT IN AFRICA, HIS JOURNEY, THE INVESTMENT BIAS AND LAUNCH AFRICA INVESTMENT THESIS.

Zach

Zachariah (Zach) George is a Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures – the most prominent and active early-stage Venture Capital Fund across Africa, solving the significant gap in the pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa. He is also the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Startupbootcamp AfriTech – the leading multi-corporate backed venture accelerator program in Africa. Zach is widely recognized as one of Africa’s most prominent Angel investors, with investments in 100+ of the leading tech startups in Africa including Flutterwave, Kudabank, Marketforce, Peach Payments, RecoMed and several others.

Launch Africa

https://launchafrica.vc/

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WE INVITED JUMOKE DADA THE INSPIRING NIGERIAN ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF TAEILLO. JUMOKE SHARED WITH US HER JOURNEY AND HOW BY 26 YEARS SHE WAS ABLE TO BUILD TAEILLO INTO A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR REVENUE BUSINESS IN NIGERIA.

Jumoke

Jumoke is an award-winning Entrepreneur, International Keynote Speaker, and the founder of Taeillo an E-commerce furniture and Lifestyle brand based in Lagos Nigeria and Nairobi Kenya, 26 she had built a multi-million-dollar furniture and Lifestyle brand from zero capital a couple of years Prior.

https://dadajumoke.com/

https://taeillo.com/

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WE INVITED BLESSING ABENG CO-FOUNDER OF INGRESSIVE 4 GOOD AND IT COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR TO TALK ABOUT BRANDING, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS AND HOW SHE HAS LEVERAGED THAT TO SAVE LIVES.

Blessing Abeng

Blessing Abeng is the Co-founder and Director of Communications at Ingressive for Good where she drives the mission of the edtech nonprofit to create and increase the earning power of African youth through tech training and resources for the growth of the African startup ecosystems. In I4G’s two years of existence, Blessing led the growth of Ingressive For Good from 0 to 200,000 community members, training over 100,000, placing some in jobs, and exclusively leading multiple cohorts of women-focused tech training, attracting partners and supporters like Coursera, DataCamp, Facebook, Figma, Alphabet, and a host of others.

She has also mentored youths in communities like She Leads Africa, Seedstars, and African Entrepreneurship Awards, amongst others. She has trained over 5000 creators in branding, communications, marketing and business. She currently curates and nurtures a growing community of over 50,000 individuals from all over the world who are constantly inspired by her strides and her consistent knowledge-sharing channels.

Blessing’s skills and clear vision make her a valuable ecosystem leader and this has led her to wear hats that are value-driven in nature. As a brand and communications expert, she has worked with brands across industries in unique capacities, nationally and globally, including Seedstars, Heritage Bank, African Alliance, Dark and Lovely (Nigeria and Africa), Bolt,  GSK, Lemi Ghariokwu, QuickCheck and so many others. She was the CMO & co-founder of Disha, a digital technology company acquired by an African Unicorn (Flutterwave) in 2021. She has received recognition from YNaija as one of the 100 most powerful youths in Nigeria. She was also recognised as a nominee for United Nation’s Most Influential Person of African Descent in the Creative sector and 40 under 40 category.

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WE INVITED DAVIDSON OTURU PARTNER AT AELEX AND MEMBER OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL THAT DRAFTED THE NIGERIAN STARTUP ACT RECENTLY PASSED INTO LAW. WE SPOKE ABOUT THE FORMATION OF THE ACT AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND THE BROADER AFRICAN ECOSYSTEM.

David

Davidson is an experienced corporate lawyer, financier and investor. He was a partner at AELEX, a leading law firm in Nigeria and Ghana, where he headed the firm’s Startups, Innovation and Technology Practice. He is presently the Managing Partner at Nubia Capital, a US-based Venture Capital Firm focused on funding and investing in tech-enabled startups in Africa. He has been recognized as one of Nigeria’s foremost legal practitioners in Fintech and Intellectual Property. He has also been ranked in leading directories such as Chambers Fintech Guide, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, WTR 1000, IP Stars and Chambers Global.
His notable activities include his appointment to the Presidential Advisory Council that conceptualized the Nigeria Startup Act, a prolific law that directly addresses the regulatory and financial challenges that affect tech-enabled startups. He also led the team that drafted the Nigeria Startup Act and coordinated several stakeholder engagements where he broke down the importance of the Act to Nigeria’s startup ecosystem.

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WE INVITED MARK KLEYNER CO-FOUNDER OF DREAM VC AS WE EXPLORE VC, THE STRUCTURAL BIAS, THE EXITS AND HIS WORK ACROSS THE AFRICAN ECOSYSTEM.

Mark

Mark is the co-founder of Dream VC, an entrepreneur, ecosystem builder and early-stage investor in Emerging Markets. Mark has worked within VCs in the UK, US, Europe and Africa and actively advises, coaches and mentors several very early-stage West & East African startups - who have gone on to raise upwards of $10m in Venture Financing, and joined programs like Google's Black Founders Fund Africa, PioneerApp, TechStars and Y Combinator. Mark is passionate about empowering the private sector to take responsibility for making people's lives better and is a big advocate for Consumer and Enterprise Software Startups as mediums to improve lives around the world. Mark is also a co-founder of Dream VC, a leading remote program, helping founders, entrepreneurs and working professionals across the African continent and among the diaspora to break into the Venture Capital industry as emerging investors.

Dream VC

https://www.dream-vc.com/

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WE INVITED DAVID GONOHASA CO-FOUNDER of TRIPESA TO DISCUSS THE WORK THEY ARE DOING TO EMPOWER BUSINESSES IN THE TOURISM SECTOR IN AFRICA STARTING FROM UGANDA. WITH DAVID WE ALSO EXPLORE THE HUGE POTENTIAL OF TOURISM AND THE FUTURE OF TECH IN THE SECTOR.

David

David is the co-founder of Tripesa a SaaS platform helping tourism, hospitality and experiences businesses access technology, payments and logistics for their growth.

Tripesa

https://tripesa.co/

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WE INVITED OLUSOLA AMUSAN

FOUNDER AND CEO OF VESTI TO TALK ABOUT MIGRATION FROM AFRICA AND HOW HE IS USING VESTI TO SUPPORT THE DREAM OF MILLIONS MIGRATING TO US WHILE SUPPORTING THEM WITH SOFTLANDING.

Olusola

Olusola (Olu) Amusan, is an Artificial Intelligence Evangelist, Disruptor and serial Technology entrepreneur, an UNLEASH Alumnus, HIVE Global Leader, the Author of Are You Branded or Stranded (2010, 2020), a global shaper of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Country Support Mechanism (CSM) of the Global Community Engagement & Resilience Fund in Nigeria and the President of the 8th Session of the African Youth and Governance Conference.

Vesti

https://app.wevesti.com/

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