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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]
He is the co-founder of Andela, and the former managing director of Flutterwave. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Aboyeji was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2019. [ 3 ]
Blessing Abeng (born 16 October 1994) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and co-founder of Disha, now acquired by Flutterwave. [1] She is one of the founders of Ingressive for Good (I4G), a tech non-profit organization. [2] In 2022, she won the African Achiever Award of the year and in 2023, she was listed in the "Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30". [3] [4]
Flutterwave: 1+ March 2021 [486] Financial technology Nigeria / United States Fractal: 1+ January 2022 Artificial intelligence India / United States FreshBooks: 1+ August 2021 [487] Accounting software: Canada Frontline Education 1+ September 2017 [488] United States FXiaoKe 1+ January 2018 [137] China Gelato 1+ August 2021 [489] Norway ...
Itana (originally founded as Talent City) is a Nigeria-based company building the first Digital Free Zone in Africa. It enables businesses to operate and function in Nigeria, and Africa without being physically present in the country.
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 ...
In 2022, Hundeyin published investigative articles on Nigerian presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, tech start-up Flutterwave, and the BBC’s West Africa operations. The reports initiated intense social media conversations between Hundeyin and the subjects of his articles or their supporters. [ 8 ]