We hosted Winston Reid of Alvin Technologies, one of our portfolio companies, on our How I Got Funded 2.0 series. Alvin provides embedded financial services software to African banks to help them maximize retail revenues. It was amazing to learn how Alvin Technologies secured funding and the steps Winston took to prior to raising…
An Introduction My name is Victor Amusan and I'm a Product Designer. I'm a Nigerian and I studied Computer Science from Federal University of Technology, Akure. I love Building Products to meet human needs, and I've been doing that for more than 5 years. I've served in this capacity and more in different companies from…
Tomilola Majekodunmi, Founder & C.E.O. of Bankly. Tomi and her team are digitalising informal thrift saving and in March this year, Bankly announced that it has raised $2 million in a seed round to scale. Tell us briefly how you started Bankly; Bankly is typically a bank for the unbanked, digitizing cash and trying…
In a session organised by Ingressive Capital in partnership with Oracle For Startups , Founder Institute , VC4Africa , and Global Startup Ecosystem , some of the best Investors in Africa share insights on startup investing from an Investors Perspective and also addressed how Investors can be better. Here are some highlights from the…
Akan Nelson, Founder & C.E.O. of Evolve Credit, Nigeria’s no 1 online loan market; Tell us briefly how you started Evolve Credit; In the beginning, I was working at the United Bank of Africa,so I had a humble salary and Daniel was a student, from his Scholarship, he had a student stipend. Between the two…