Ifeoma Uddoh (M) – Founder & CEO, Shecluded Meet Shecluded, founded by social entrepreneur, Ifeoma Uddoh, as a Nigerian fintech credit company whose mission is to power financial freedom for African women by facilitating entrepreneurship and simplified access to financial services, through technology. Shecluded’s FINWOMEN project provides financial products, training, and support to 1000 women aged 18-35 across five states in Nigeria. “Our FinWomen project, supported by Challenge Fund for Youth Employment, will not only support 1000 Nigerian women to gain meaningful self-employment, but will also create up to 3,500 direct and indirect jobs for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled Nigerian…
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Lanre Oyedotun (Co-Founder & CEO, B54) B54, a Lagos-based business-lending fintech organisation, is connecting capital to startups, especially those in the high growth-stage desperately seeking to raise increasingly scarce venture capital. Co-Founded by Lanre Oyedotun and Babawole Akin-Aina in 2022, B54 is building an alternative and flexible source of funding for businesses in Africa that are powered by technology. This means that they specialise in aggregating idle cash from both wealthy Africans and financial institutions, and lending onwards to fast-growing businesses in West Africa that need working capital. Typically, B54 acts as a digital private bank that sources funds from…
Partnerships in medicine (L-R): Melanie Okuneye (Founder, Akoma Health) and Dr. Modupe Elebute-Odunsi (Founder, Marcelle Ruth Cancer Centre) Melanie Okuneye (Founder, Akoma Health – providers of accessible and affordable mental health services) and Dr. Modupe Elebute-Odunsi (Founder, Marcelle Ruth Cancer Centre) recently entered into a collaboration that will see patients of clinical cancer simultaneously enjoying the much-needed support of a mental wellbeing plan. Excited excited by this innovative collaboration that offers “wrap around care” of cancer treatment and an in-house mental wellness service, Dr. Elebute-Odunsi says: “It was great to finally meet and have discussions with Melanie Okuneye of Akoma Health, a truly impressive…
Dr. Omar Sakr (Founder & CEO , Nawah-Scientific) addressing 1000+ attendees of the 5th edition of Africa’s Business Heroes contest Father of five, entrepreneur at heart, and scientist in the laboratory, Dr. Omar Shoukry Sakr is the founder and CEO of Nawah-Scientific, an Egyptian cloud lab for on-demand scientific services, and Africa’s biggest online destination to outsource scientific experiments in the fields of natural and biomedical sciences. Recently, Nawah Scientific received accreditation from the United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) for food analysis and safety through the Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods Program. Says Dr. Sakr: “Accreditation reduces costs…
Enyonam Manye 📸 Founder of Count on Crops Hub, Enyonam Manye, has just won the Agric Journalist of the year prize at the African Women in Agribusiness Awards, held at the Holiday Inn Hotel (Accra-Ghana), on November 18, 2023 Ms. Manye’s company produces a TV series tagged The Ghanaian Farmer, which is extremely popular for educating Ghanaians around the globe the vast opportunities the sector presents by engaging farmers and experts in field interviews. Aired on both Joy Prime TV and YouTube, The Ghanaian Farmer received special recognition for inspiring the younger generation, through engaging content, to see agriculture as…
Samirah Ade-Adebiyi ( Managing Director, AFEX Investment) Nigeria-based commodities platform, AFEX, has received a capital injection of $26.5 million from British International Investment (BII), which is the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor. As a commercial platform, AFEX, through its three divisions of operation, helps its 450,000+ smallholder farmers in Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda overcome challenges by expanding their access to inputs, financing, microinsurance, storage, training, and markets. Currently operating an expansive network of 200+ warehouses, the financing from BII will enable the construction of 20 advanced storage facilities in prominent locations across Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda. This…
Ijeoma Agnes Oduonye (CEO, Cutix Plc) Did you know this? Listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Cutix Plc (Cutix) is a manufacturing company based in Nnewi (Nigeria), producing and selling a range of electrical wires, cables and switchgear assemblies. The company produces bare copper conductors, bare stranded copper conductors, insulated copper conductors, PVC insulated copper cables, PVC insulated single/double sheathed-core aluminium cables and PVC insulated and sheathed flat twin/three-core copper cables. Cutix also produces aluminium twist cables and conductors to connect homes to low tension lines; used to connect power from high tension wire for street lighting; used in high…
Joyce Daniels is an event MC extraordinaire and public speaking coach who is currently celebrating 16 years on that stage. Her journey is nothing short of fascinating, and we share some of her experiences verbatim, for the benefit of entrepreneurs struggling with self-belief and strategy:'[It has been] 16 years since 11th November 2007, when I agreed with the universe, I was going to be an Event Host MC of repute. It was 7pm that Sunday – I made my decision immediately after working as the MC at the launch of Sleek Hair and Makeup Nigeria, at 62b Anifowose Street off…
Last month, Gbite Oduneye (Founding Partner at ODBI) met up with his friend, Dr. Kingsley I. Ndoh (Founder & CEO, Hurone AI), and discussions veered into the remarkable strides that Hurone AI was making to transform cancer care – especially as the disease remains a critical global health challenge that still does not equally reach underrepresented populations, such as those those in Africa. (L-R): Dr. Kingsleu Ndoh (Founder, Hurone AI); Gbite Oduneye (Founding Partner @ ODBA) 📸Gbite Citing Hurone AI as an antidote to bridging the healthcare gap, Oduneye says: “Enter Hurone AI, a groundbreaking MedTech startup by Dr. Kingsley…
Winners of the inaugural South African Startup and Investor Awards, an initiative of Startup Club ZA, have been announced. Selected from 60 finalists and through a combination of public voting and adjudication by a 25-person judging committee, the 12 winners are: Zoie Health Founders (L-R): Dr. Nonhlanhla Sitole and Thato Schermer AI & Big Data: Melio.ai – Founded in 2019 by Merelda Wu and Harry Lee, Melio specialises in developing and deploying machine learning solutions and their Highwind marketplace lets data professionals find, benchmark and buy existing machine learning models; Biotech: Maltento – Founded in 2018 by Dean Smorenburg, Maltento aims to overcome…