Founders Connect

Ameyaw Debrah is a Ghanaian celebrity blogger, freelance journalist, and reporter. He is the founder of AmeyawDebrah.com, a thriving entertainment website and blog that publishes Ghanaian celebrity news. He earned a bachelor's degree in publishing from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. In this podcast, Ameyaw shares his life, journey and career as a media entrepreneur.

Odun Eweniyi is the Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest, a secure online savings platform that is valuable for its flexible savings options. She is also a CoFounder of FirstCheck, an Investor Operative dedicated to aiding women in building companies, and the Feminist Coalition, a group of women that work together for Women's rights and were instrumental to the #EndSars Protests of 20...

On Linkedin, Eyitayo describes himself as "really enthusiastic about Web3 and products that digitalize how people learn."  He is the CEO of Utiva, a digital business that aims to change how Africans and people of colour enter the tech industry by assisting learners in transitioning from classrooms to on-the-job learning, and one of the pioneers in the Tech Educational system in Africa. ...

Godwin Tom is a renowned talent manager, creative entrepreneur and the Chief Executive officer at iManage Africa, a Talent & Events management company set up in 2017. Godwin Tom has worked with or managed artists like MI, Wizkid, Waje, Davido, Rooftop MCs, and many others.   With 10 years in the industry and practical experience at management level for Marketing, Public Relations, Image C...

Tosin Faniro-Dada is the Managing Director & CEO of Endeavor in Nigeria. Tosin is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs and helping them scale, not just for the immediate impact this has on their organization but more for the multiplier effect, which confers on the larger society and economy. She has worked with entrepreneurs in various life-cycle stages, supporting them with interventions...

Big Cabal, which publishes the tech and youth publications, TechCabal and Zikoko. TechCabal provides the reporting, data and events that will help the world understand technology and tech business in Africa, while Zikoko creates high-engagement content around culture and what it means to be young in Africa today.   Tomiwa has taken Big Cabal through a transformation that's made it one of the...

Abdulhamid Hassan is the CEO of Mono, a data startup that is “powering the internet economy” in Africa.  Mono is the modern financial infrastructure for Africa, backed with $17M from Tiger Global, Entree capital, Target global, DST, SBI Group, and powering companies like Carbon, Tangerine, Renmoney, Identitypass and so much more.    Mono is currently live in Nigeria, South Africa, G...

Babajide is an experienced professional whose mission is to help founders build long-lasting technology-enabled companies in Africa. His experience spans tech, banking, and consulting.  Babajide previously worked as a Community Manager with Andela, had stints in Access Bank and Phillips Consulting and is the ex-country manager of Safeboda. Currently, he is the GM (Nigeria) of M-kopa.  &n...

Michael Trojan Okoh is a 22-year-old creative developer, co-founder and CTO at The Peer. The Peer is a technology company with a  bold mission—to help businesses and Apps enable business-to-business transfers for their customers with their API infrastructure.  In this podcast, Trojan as he is fondly called, talks about learning to code at a young age, his early influences, how he got the...

Lotanna Nwose is a web technology enthusiast and techpreneur who is one of the 3 co-founders of Ghanaian startup, InvestSika where he is in charge of partnerships and operations.   InvestSika is on a mission to make investing accessible to all Africans. And it is starting in Ghana, one of the leading countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).   Lotanna speaks to me about his journey into tec...

Bernard Parah is a Tech entrepreneur who is very passionate about solving monetary difficulties using Bitcoin technology. He is the CEO of Bitnob, a technology and financial services company that lets users buy, save and invest in bitcoin.   Bitnob offers a ton of other options, like loans, Dollar-Cost-Averaging plans, and many much more. It also operates a Bitcoin Lightning Network inte...

Temitope Ekundayo and Ibukun Oloyede are the Co-CEOs of Printivo, a print-on-demand startup that enables small and medium enterprises to print items. Its core offering is its ability to help anyone, regardless of location or size, print items without the hassles of traditional solutions.   Temitope and Ibukun’s new responsibility as joint CEO is to significantly grow the business and help Pri...

Toba Adeyanju is a business development expert who is currently creating magic in the music industry. He is the CEO of Ejoya Music, a fast-rising music technology company that creates tools for musicians to distribute, market and monetise their content.   In this video, Toba talks about his background, his journey into the entertainment business, starting off as a business developer...

Rebecca Inyang Junaid is an Entertainment entrepreneur who has operated in the Nigerian music industry for over 13 years. She consistently describes herself as a strong black woman.   JustJoJo Entertainment Limited, the agency that she deftly commands, is a registered company in the UK, offering music/video distribution services, publishing, licensing, label/management, promotion and marketin...

Yele Bademosi is a Tech entrepreneur and investor who is passionate about helping his home continent of Africa. Yele studied Medicine at King’s College London before opting out to focus on technology entrepreneurship.    He is the co-founder of Nestcoin, Founder of Bundle and Founding Partner of Microtraction. He was also a director at the venture capital arm of the world’s largest crypt...

Kingsley Abrokwah is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation, carved out of a need to excel and make an impact. Over the span of 10 years, he has started and exited 2 Tech startups in Ghana, each focused on developing software solutions solving problems peculiar to the African terrain, while at the same time offering a global appeal. Kingsley is also an Alumni of the Meltwater Entrepre...

Adewale Yusuf is a serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building tech businesses in Africa. He is the co-founder of TalentQL, Techpoint Africa and AltSchool Africa.  Techpoint Africa is a digital media company that amplifies the best innovations out of Africa through its publications, data, and events.  Techpoint Africa hosts a variety of events, all-day seminars and confer...

Tomiwa Lasebikan is the co-founder and head of product at Helicarrier, a company with the mission to financially connect the African, anywhere they are in the world.  Helicarriers are makers of some of the most innovative crypto products in Africa including Buycoins, a crypto exchange and Sendcash which helps users in the US send money back home using crypto. Before Buycoins, Tomiwa was a sof...

Bayo 'Lion' Adedeji is the current CEO of Wakanow. Wakanow is Africa's one-stop shop for cheap flights, hotel reservations and airport pickups. Prior to joining Wakanow, Bayo was a Senior Finance Manager at Amazon, in charge of fulfilment supporting product teams in 16 countries. Before that, he served as a senior finance professional in the consumer retails sector, including with Petsmart and Wal...

I had a chat with Kelvin about this career so far, how community has helped me grow faster, his reasons for community impact, how entrepreneurship started for him and everything in between.

Douglas Kendyson is a software engineer with a lot of experience in the fintech & payments space. He has worked for the top YCombinator backed payment startups in Africa (Flutterwave & Paystack), as well as a Robo-advisory firm in the UAE (Sarwa) and Dapi, building the payment infrastructure for the Middle East.  Douglas is also the Founder and CEO of Selar, an eCommerce tool creative...

Rodney is a huge fan of technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. He is also the CTO of Prospa, a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.

Ized Uanikhehi, the CEO/CMO of Loose Media Limited, a digital-first,  Marketing and Media agency, and founder/chief evangelist of DigiClan Africa (a community of digital marketing professionals in Africa). Before Loose Media, Ized was the cofounder and CMO TORA Academy (TORA).  TORA was a live-in academy facility dedicated to producing world-class motorcycle taxi drivers. She has also wo...

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji calls himself an entrepreneur in the public interest. He is passionate about partnering with missionary talent and capital to build an African future. Iyinoluwa is the Founder & General Partner of Future Africa, a people-powered innovation fund that provides capital, coaching and community to mission-driven innovators turning Africa's biggest challenges into business opportun...

Ebun Okunbanjo is a Serial Entrepreneur. He and his Co-founder both run Thegymclass, Fitness Central, Bento and Ezwash. Bento Africa - the focus of this video is a business solutions company whose flagship product, Pay by Verifi, is a cloud-based salaries and benefits solution that helps businesses do more with less.   Ebun spoke to me growing up, moving back to Nigeria, starting a business,...