Category: Tech and Entrepreneurship

Sim Shagaya founded Konga, once Nigeria’s largest e-commerce platform, and later uLesson, a secondary education tech startup, after a career as a Google executive in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Olugbenga “GB” Agboola is the CEO of Flutterwave, one of Africa’s most valuable private companies, which processes payments for Uber, Facebook and other global businesses across African markets.

Tosin Eniolorunda is the co-founder of TeamApt and the force behind Moniepoint, Nigeria’s largest agent banking network, which has extended financial services to millions of previously unbanked Nigerians.

Nnamdi Ezeigbo is the founder of SLOT Systems, Nigeria’s most successful consumer electronics retail chain, built from a single market stall in Ikeja into a national brand with dozens of outlets.

Iyin Aboyeji is the Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded both Andela and Flutterwave, making him one of the very few people globally to have co-founded two separate billion-dollar companies.

Shola Akinlade is the co-founder and CEO of Paystack, the Nigerian fintech company acquired by Stripe for a reported $200 million in Africa’s largest tech acquisition at the time.

Bosun Tijani co-founded Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), Nigeria’s most influential tech startup accelerator, and was appointed Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy in 2023.

Jason Njoku is the co-founder of iROKOtv, Africa’s first major Nollywood streaming platform, and one of Nigeria’s most candid tech entrepreneurs who has documented his journey from failure to venture-backed success.

Odunayo Eweniyi is the co-founder and COO of PiggyVest, Nigeria’s most popular personal savings app with over four million users, and one of Africa’s most prominent women in fintech.

Kola Aina is the founder of Ventures Platform, one of Nigeria’s most active early-stage venture capital funds and an early backer of Paystack before its landmark $200 million Stripe acquisition.