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Octamile, Africa’s Digital Insurtech Startup raises $ 500,000 and comes out of Stealth mode to Protect Africans from Financial Loss

By Victoria OyeniyiPosted on March 31, 2022Posted in Featured, NewsTagged Gbenro Dara, Insurtech, OctamileNo Comments

Octamile, an Insurtech company enabling insurance and non-insurance businesses to protect African consumers from financial loss, has come out of stealth mode with $500,000 in pre-seed funding led by EchoVC with participation from Fiat Ventures, Kesho VC, Trade X, Verraki Partners, Dale Mathias, Kyle Daley (Founding team member of Chime) and other local and international […]

Nigerian rewards startup ThankUCash raises $5.3m seed round for expansion

By Victoria OyeniyiPosted on January 10, 2022Posted in Featured, NewsTagged Harshal Gandole, Madonna Ononobi, Simeon Ononobi, Suraj Supekar, ThankUCashNo Comments

Nigerian multi-merchant rewards platform ThankUCash has raised US$5.3 million in seed funding as it plans expansion into new markets and further product launches. Co-founded in 2018 by Simeon Ononobi, Suraj Supekar, Madonna Ononobi and Harshal Gandole, ThankUCash offers cashback on purchases and deals from thousands of merchants, which in turn helps merchants retain customer loyalty, increase revenues, […]

The new school: Andela

By ChinwePosted on October 26, 2019Posted in Work DoneNo Comments

At the beginning of the rise of Andela, we helped amplify the Andela story. We did a 3-day tour of the two Andela campuses at Yaba, Lagos, at the time, spent time with the co-founders Jeremy Johnson, Iyin Aboyeji, et al, the faculty, developers-in-training, and even reached out to an Andela client to confirm their […]

HouseholdMax company launch

By ChinwePosted on October 12, 2019Posted in Work DoneTagged Adegoke Oyeniyi, Adewale Yusuf, Aisha Tinubu, HouseholdMax, Work DoneNo Comments

HouseholdMax is a general goods shopping site founded by Mrs Aisha Tinubu to ease mothers with groceries and domestic shopping. At the launch which held at Oriental Hotel, we coordinated pressmen to give the event ample media coverage on TV, radio, print and online.

The secret behind TraderMoni: The technology, process, and People

By ChinwePosted on September 12, 2019Posted in NewsTagged TraderMoniNo Comments

The Federal Government TraderMoni programme is a compendium of several success stories and a few weeks back, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) marked their third year of creating amazing impact. While the evident impact of the government credit program for over two million petty traders seems to be the loudest of these stories, there are […]

Florence Seriki: The woman entrepreneur who built a N3.5Bn technology company

By ChinwePosted on October 11, 2018Posted in BusinessTagged florence seriki, omatek computers

It was 2013 and I was in my third year in the university. I had gone to the Obafemi Awolowo University staff quarters to spend the weekend with my uncle; an Associate Professor at the Department of Local Government Studies. As is usual practice, this is the time I get to help him with typing […]

Internet of Things Innovation Centre launches at Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba

By ChinwePosted on August 21, 2017Posted in NewsTagged IoT

Thursday, August 3, 2017 was the launch of the Internet of Things Innovation Centre at the Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba. Though it was a rainy day, students, teachers and members of the press were there to welcome the Minister of State for Education, Professor Gozie Anwukah as he commissioned the Internet of Things […]