Starting a company is fraught with unique challenges, particularly when expanding into new markets. As a founder, I experienced this firsthand when we took the decision to expand to Ghana. To become a Top startup company on the continent we needed to develop a playbook for future expansion before raising any growth-stage financing, and expanding […]

Eight years ago I made my first Angel investment in Paystack. Today I am celebrating over 40+ investments in startups and averaging an exit each year since the Paystack acquisition by Stripe was announced in 2020. It’s been a great symbiotic experience overall as my own startup Tizeti thrives from the startups. My customers utilize […]

Oxio’s $100 Million acquisition by Cogeco, a Canadian telecommunications and media company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange closed in Q1 2023. This successful sale marks the culmination of my first investment in an Internet Service Provider and a Canadian startup, and it fills me with immense pride as someone who has always been fascinated […]

Earlier this year, Reliance Health announced their Series B round, a $40m round and the largest health tech investment in Africa making them a YC top company valued at more than $150m. Reliance Health started life as Kangpe, a telemedicine startup. I first heard about them when Tizeti provided free wifi to livestream Oo Nwoye’s […]

I turned 40 last week and took time off to celebrate with my family at Disneyland “happiest place on earth” and took a look back at my last 4 decades.Early on, my parents realized I was a precocious child and took a bold decision to allow me skip 2 grades and progress to boarding school […]

At the end of Q1 2021 Flutterwave announced their Series C funding led by Tiger Global and Avenir Growth Capital valuing the startup at a $1Billion making my 2nd Angel investment a Unicorn (Startup valued at a $1Bn). In August 2016, I led a team of Bankers looking to partner with startups to Yaba (center […]

Last month, Stripe’s $200m acquisition of Paystack closed, the fairytale ending to my 1st Angel investment. The acquisition had been announced back in October 2020 and closed in January 2021. Paystack went live on Radar https://radar.techcabal.com/t/paystack-is-live/4161 on January 26th 2016. The reviews were great. A week later (February 3rd 2016), I was introduced to the […]

Every business or startup needs capital and raising capital is not easy. I provide some insight into the process and share my own experience with fundraising. The talk was part of a Zoom Call I had with my classmates from University. The talk is broken into the following session Equity ve Debt Source of Financing […]

I gave a talk on Personal Finance for Tizeti employees at the end of 2020. The talk details Living with your means Saving Investing Differentiates between Leverage and Lending