Founders Connect

Dami is the co-founder and CEO of Shuttlers, a platform that enables professionals to access efficient shared transportation in Lagos Metropolis. They help transform the stressful time commuting to and from work into a productive, refreshing and relaxing experience.   With Shuttlers App, Professionals can book a seat on a route, pay for a seat and track the arrival of their shuttle. I had a g...

Ben Eluan along with his friends/co-founders dropped out of university to build Flux. Flux is a crypto remittance startup built to enable individuals and merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world.  In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer, an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. Pioneer gives founders access to funding streams and talent hardly found out...

Oluwatomi Solanke is the co-founder and CEO of Trove finance, a micro-investing platform that lets Nigerians invest in publicly traded US, Nigerian and Chinese stocks, government bonds and more.  Tomi is passionate about new technologies, new ideas and new ways of thinking. He is also a fitness buff and enjoys health-related activities. I sat down with Tomi to learn all about his journey to e...

Tito Ovia is a health tech entrepreneur and public health professional who is driven to improve healthcare quality in Africa. She is the co-founder/Head of Public Sector Growth of Helium Health, a Nigeria-based health tech company that is building the technology infrastructure driving African healthcare. In this episode, we learn all about Tito's journey to date - growing up in an affluent family,...

Founded in August 2017, Patricia harnesses the power of cryptocurrency to create alternative solutions to financial infrastructure, digital payments and global E-commerce.  Hanu, the founder and CEO says on Linkedin "I am bootstrapping Patricia to a trillion-dollar valuation, ushering the world into a digital age, doing the most with a strong team, building amazing products that would impact...

Kuda is Nigeria's first mobile-only bank licensed by the Central Bank. Kuda is designed for your smartphone, free of ridiculous charges and great at helping you budget, spend smartly and save more.  Musty Mustapha - the cofounder/CTO of Kuda graduated from university with a first-class degree and a distinction in his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, respectively.  On this episode,...

Yanmo Omorogbe is a Co-founder and COO at Bamboo. Before founding Bamboo, she was an Investment Associate at the African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM). Bamboo gives unrestricted access to over 3,000 stocks listed on the Nigerian stock exchange and U.S. stock exchanges, right from your mobile phone or computer.  Yanmo speaks to me about her 'accidental' journey into entrepreneurshi...

Chijioke Dozie is the CEO and co-Founder of a $15.8 million VC-backed company, Carbon. Carbon is a leading African Mobile-First Consumer Lending Business and a digital bank. In this episode, Chijioke shares his story - how Carbon started as One credit in 2012, pivoted to One fi in 2015, then Paylater and now Carbon. He also talks about growing up, schooling abroad and starting a business with his...

In this episode, Yinka Adewale shares his story - how Kudi started as message commerce (Kudi.ai) and pivoted to agent banking after some time, the difficulty they faced raising seed for the business, plans for the future and lessons learned so far. He also shares the story on how he resigned as co-founder/co-CEO and gave up all his shares at a previous startup and much more.

Onyeka Akumah is a technology entrepreneur with a focus on the agriculture, real estate, and transportation sectors. He is popularly known as the founder and CEO of Farmcrowdy, but he is also a co-founder at CrowdyVest, PlentyWaka and Rent Smallsmall.  In this episode of #FoundersConnect , I sat down with Onyeka and we talked about his entire career and entrepreneurship journey so far - from...

Oluwatosin is the founder of Money Africa, a financial literacy platform (EdTech) and Ladda, a one-stop investment platform that gives you access to an array of products including Savings, Mutual funds and Stocks (Fintech). She is also one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in Finance and Economy.   On this episode of #FoundersConnect , I sat down with Tosin and we talked about her journey so far. She...

Nadayar is the Co-founder and CEO of Eden Life.  Eden is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot. Eden helps you to say goodbye to chores forever. Prior to Eden, Nadayar co-founded Andela and led the training and learning teams there. On this episode of #Foundersconnect , Nad talked about his journey with me. He talked about being CTO at Fora, co-founding Andela, &amp...

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. Stripe (an American financial service and software as a service company headquartered in San Francisco) acquired Paystack for a rumoured amount of about $200M.   In this episode of #FoundersConnect , I sat down with the CTO of...

In this series, I hope to learn more about your favourite African Tech CEOs and the amazing products they are building to solve real problems for you and me. To launch this series, I have a conversation with Atsu Davoh. Atsu is building Bitsika, a payments app for the whole of Africa - where you can send, spend, issue Visa cards, buy airtime, buy and sell crypto and more.