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Olugbenga Agboola OON (born 1985 [1]) is a Nigerian software engineer, entrepreneur, and business leader.He is the CEO and co-founder of Flutterwave, [2] [3] [4] Vice Chairman of the U.S.-Africa Business Center Board, [5] and a member of prominent business organizations including the Milken Institute Africa Business Leaders Council, [6] the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, [7] and the Fast ...
Flutterwave was founded in 2016 by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Olugbenga Agboola, and Adeleke Adekoya and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with current operations in the U.S., Canada, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, and 29 other African countries. [2] [3] [4] In 2021, Flutterwave raised a US$170 million Series C funding round. [5]
Aboyeji co-founded Andela, a global job placement network for software developers in 2014. In 2016, he cofounded Flutterwave, Africa's leading payments technology company. [5] Aboyeji is currently the general partner and co-founder of Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching and community for mission-driven innovators. [6]
Today we behold another unicorn: African payments company Flutterwave announced that it has closed $170 million, valuing the company over $1 billion. New York-based private investment firm Avenir ...
African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. The latest financing, which confirms a ...
On June 25, 2015, Andela secured $10 million in Series A funding. Spark Capital led the investment and many of the Seed investors participated. [26]The following year, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—founded and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan—led in Andela’s $24 million Series B round of funding, [27] making it the first lead investment ever for the foundation.
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Naqvi ran the Abraaj Group from its founding in 2002 through his resignation in 2018. The fund group was established with backing from various Middle Eastern power players, including royals.