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| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Obakoolex(m): 10:25am On Aug 19, 2023 |
BabaIbo:Abegi no come here dey shalaye Joo...who ask you if na fish dey inside titus |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Eriokanmi: 10:26am On Aug 19, 2023 |
obembet:OP, why didn't you include my cousin Tosin Eniolorunda? |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Mayeldah(m): 10:26am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Can they set up a mentorship program for Nigerian Youths? They can give back to society through that means I am proud of them! |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Kalatium(m): 10:32am On Aug 19, 2023 |
obembet: |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by JaredH: 10:32am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Yoruba you mean? Other tribes should go and look for their own glory ![]() |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by CarPapers: 10:32am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Good one |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by RockHard: 10:33am On Aug 19, 2023 |
gaby:I know right? It's only 'tribalism' to y'all hypocrites when the list favours Yoruba people. |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by JaredH: 10:34am On Aug 19, 2023 |
BabaIbo:which seplat? ![]() Calendly alone will buy seplat and the owner |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Incredible128: 10:41am On Aug 19, 2023 |
You that is yoruba, aren't you ashamed that u're still here still singing these lines? Those guys u're comparing to "flatheadded" creatures , do you think they have this type of reasoning you have? ![]() Destroyerofyeeb: |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by thesicilian: 10:43am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Destroyerofyeeb:I noticed that they're all yorubas too. If they were Igbos the topic would have been Billion dollar start ups founded by Igbo people |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Tobijays: 10:44am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Dottore:you just dy cap anyhow but I won’t burst your bubble lol just continue |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by MrsTwrite(f): 10:46am On Aug 19, 2023 |
I will get there someday. Amen. |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by HBB1(m): 10:52am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Dottore:The South East does not have a dollar billionaire. Stop the cap! |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by HBB1(m): 10:55am On Aug 19, 2023 |
BabaIbo:Calendly no dey service? Flutterwave? No be witchcraft be dis? |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by NLKing01: 11:03am On Aug 19, 2023 |
You mean Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Yorubas?[quote author=obembet post=125207897]Here are the Billion Dollar Startups Founded by Nigerians and their worth 1. Cityblock Health ($5 billion) | Primary HealthcareCo-founded by Toyin Ajayi Dr. Toyin Ajayi, our CEO and co-founder, has spent her whole career serving Medicaid patients. Here, she explains what we do, why we do what we do, and what compassionate care is all about. 2• Calendly ($3 billion) | Scheduling Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. Tope founded Calendly in 2013 with the vision of simplifying scheduling for everyone without the back-and-forth emails 3• Flutterwave ($3 billion) | Fintech Founded by Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Flutterwave is a post Series A payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco with operations and offices across Africa and Europe. Flutterwave was launched over two years ago with the goal to build digital payments infrastructure for Africa and enable businesses receive or make any payments across Africa and globally. In two years of operations, Flutterwave has processed over $2B across all product platforms and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the "Best Technology Platform" as awarded by The Asian Banker, the "Top 100 Fintech Firms" among others. 4• Andela ($1.5 billion) | Software Engineering Place Network Iyinoluwa Aboyeji was born in Lagos on March 28, 1991, to Reverend (Mr) and Reverend (Mrs) Aboyeji. He is a Nigerian native of Isin LGA in Kwara State. Heattended Primary School at St Saviour’s Primary School Ebute-Metta, Lagos. After earning his secondary school certificate from the Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja in 2007, he continued to the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies. Iyinoluwa is currently the CEO and General Partner of Fund for Africa’s Future (popularly known as Future Africa), Africa’s largest seed stage investor which has invested millions of dollars into over hundred startups across Africa. Prior to that he co-founded Flutterwave, a billion-dollar global payments platform connecting African businesses and individuals to the global economy and served as its Founding CEO from May 2, 2016, to October 5, 2018. In those years, he led thecompany to become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all time, processing over $2 billion across over 50 million transactions. In May 2014, Iyinoluwa co-founded Andela, Africa’s largest engineering organization that provides training for African software engineers which has provided training and jobs for over 100,000 African software and tech professionals. The company has received investments from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures, amongst others. Iyinoluwa has also served his country as the youngest member of Nigeria’s Presidential Council on Industrial Policy and Competitiveness and as the Deputy Director General for Madam Obiageli Ezekwesili Campaign for President in 2019. He has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree amongst other awards and fellowships 5• InterSwitch ($1 billion) | Fintech company Founded by Mitchell Elegbe Before establishing Interswitch in 2002, Mitchell worked with TELNET as the Group Head for Business Development after an impactful time as a Wireline Engineer at Schlumberger. An alumnus of the IESE/Wharton/CEIBS Global CEO Program, Mitchell is a Bishop Desmond Tutu fellow of the African Leadership Institute. Building a remarkable career on his background as an Electrical/Electronic Engineering graduate from the University of Benin, Nigeria, he has won several awards, including the CNBC/Forbes All African Business Leader (AABLA) for West Africa, and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mitchell currently serves as a Board Member at Endeavor and is reputed as a High Impact Entrepreneurship Enabler. 6• Esusu ($1 billion) | Software company Co-founded by Wemimo Abbey Esusu, a Nigerian fintech firm, has secured a $130 million Series B funding round to help build the racial wealth gap. The company announced this on Thursday, breaking the $1 billion valuation barrier as one of the few startups with a black founder to reach unicorn status. The funding round was led by Softbank, Vision Fund 2 with participation from Jones Feliciano Family Office, Lauder Zinterhofer Family Office, Schusterman Foundation, SoftBank Opportunity Fund, Related Companies, and Wilshire Lane Capital. The firm said the fund would be used to scale its team and drive growth through product innovation while building the most comprehensive financial health platform in the market. Abbey Wemimo, the founder of Esusu, said the company was established because of his financial exclusion experience while growing up in an immigrant home. “We founded Esusu with the vision of using data to bridge the racial wealth gap and create more equitable financial opportunities for low-to-moderate-income households in this country,” Wemimo said. “By establishing and improving credit scores, we are strengthening financial identities while empowering individuals, families, and communities to meet their long-term financial goals.” 7- Paystack by Shola Akinlade In 2015, Paystack was co-founded by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi. The two entrepreneurs founded Paystack which becomes a popular Fintech company in Africa. This platform allows payments to be made online. Shola Akinlade is a software engineer and a technology expert. He is popularly known for being the CEO of Paystack and was born in Lagos State, Nigeria. Before he co-founded Paystack, he worked from November 2007 to April 2009 as a database manager for Heineken, a brewing company in Nigeria. Source: https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1692638083001270505?t=JhigUAXpttLZjSDEg4E3Xw&s=19[/quote] |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Advicemeplease: 11:08am On Aug 19, 2023 |
This is inspiring |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Josephkabila12: 11:10am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Rahkman:can you see this mumu. Check out all this multi-billion dollars companies on Google. Since you reside in the village, you don't know what's going on. |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by akigbemaru: 11:10am On Aug 19, 2023 |
[quote author=obembet post=125207897]Here are the Billion Dollar Startups Founded by Nigerians and their worth 1. Cityblock Health ($5 billion) | Primary HealthcareCo-founded by Toyin Ajayi Dr. Toyin Ajayi, our CEO and co-founder, has spent her whole career serving Medicaid patients. Here, she explains what we do, why we do what we do, and what compassionate care is all about. 2• Calendly ($3 billion) | Scheduling Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. Tope founded Calendly in 2013 with the vision of simplifying scheduling for everyone without the back-and-forth emails 3• Flutterwave ($3 billion) | Fintech Founded by Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Flutterwave is a post Series A payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco with operations and offices across Africa and Europe. Flutterwave was launched over two years ago with the goal to build digital payments infrastructure for Africa and enable businesses receive or make any payments across Africa and globally. In two years of operations, Flutterwave has processed over $2B across all product platforms and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the "Best Technology Platform" as awarded by The Asian Banker, the "Top 100 Fintech Firms" among others. 4• Andela ($1.5 billion) | Software Engineering Place Network Iyinoluwa Aboyeji was born in Lagos on March 28, 1991, to Reverend (Mr) and Reverend (Mrs) Aboyeji. He is a Nigerian native of Isin LGA in Kwara State. Heattended Primary School at St Saviour’s Primary School Ebute-Metta, Lagos. After earning his secondary school certificate from the Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja in 2007, he continued to the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies. Iyinoluwa is currently the CEO and General Partner of Fund for Africa’s Future (popularly known as Future Africa), Africa’s largest seed stage investor which has invested millions of dollars into over hundred startups across Africa. Prior to that he co-founded Flutterwave, a billion-dollar global payments platform connecting African businesses and individuals to the global economy and served as its Founding CEO from May 2, 2016, to October 5, 2018. In those years, he led thecompany to become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all time, processing over $2 billion across over 50 million transactions. In May 2014, Iyinoluwa co-founded Andela, Africa’s largest engineering organization that provides training for African software engineers which has provided training and jobs for over 100,000 African software and tech professionals. The company has received investments from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures, amongst others. Iyinoluwa has also served his country as the youngest member of Nigeria’s Presidential Council on Industrial Policy and Competitiveness and as the Deputy Director General for Madam Obiageli Ezekwesili Campaign for President in 2019. He has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree amongst other awards and fellowships 5• InterSwitch ($1 billion) | Fintech company Founded by Mitchell Elegbe Before establishing Interswitch in 2002, Mitchell worked with TELNET as the Group Head for Business Development after an impactful time as a Wireline Engineer at Schlumberger. An alumnus of the IESE/Wharton/CEIBS Global CEO Program, Mitchell is a Bishop Desmond Tutu fellow of the African Leadership Institute. Building a remarkable career on his background as an Electrical/Electronic Engineering graduate from the University of Benin, Nigeria, he has won several awards, including the CNBC/Forbes All African Business Leader (AABLA) for West Africa, and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mitchell currently serves as a Board Member at Endeavor and is reputed as a High Impact Entrepreneurship Enabler. 6• Esusu ($1 billion) | Software company Co-founded by Wemimo Abbey Esusu, a Nigerian fintech firm, has secured a $130 million Series B funding round to help build the racial wealth gap. The company announced this on Thursday, breaking the $1 billion valuation barrier as one of the few startups with a black founder to reach unicorn status. The funding round was led by Softbank, Vision Fund 2 with participation from Jones Feliciano Family Office, Lauder Zinterhofer Family Office, Schusterman Foundation, SoftBank Opportunity Fund, Related Companies, and Wilshire Lane Capital. The firm said the fund would be used to scale its team and drive growth through product innovation while building the most comprehensive financial health platform in the market. Abbey Wemimo, the founder of Esusu, said the company was established because of his financial exclusion experience while growing up in an immigrant home. “We founded Esusu with the vision of using data to bridge the racial wealth gap and create more equitable financial opportunities for low-to-moderate-income households in this country,” Wemimo said. “By establishing and improving credit scores, we are strengthening financial identities while empowering individuals, families, and communities to meet their long-term financial goals.” 7- Paystack by Shola Akinlade In 2015, Paystack was co-founded by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi. The two entrepreneurs founded Paystack which becomes a popular Fintech company in Africa. This platform allows payments to be made online. Shola Akinlade is a software engineer and a technology expert. He is popularly known for being the CEO of Paystack and was born in Lagos State, Nigeria. Before he co-founded Paystack, he worked from November 2007 to April 2009 as a database manager for Heineken, a brewing company in Nigeria. Source: https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1692638083001270505?t=JhigUAXpttLZjSDEg4E3Xw&s=19[/quote] |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by SmartPolician: 11:11am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Dottore:At the emboldened, you are very right. Local apprenticeship helped the South East reduce its poverty. But when I see my people claim that they don't need the government, I just laugh at their ignorance. Everyone needs the government. If not through business grants and loans, government supports through good business policy formulation. |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by obembet(op): 11:16am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Eriokanmi:Monipoint Not Worth Billion of dollars yet but I believe in the next 2/3 yrs... They will overtak opay |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Nobody: 11:17am On Aug 19, 2023 |
We Yoruba no dey too make noise, na so we go just dey lowkey till we achieve our aim while some f**ls will be calling us asslickers and no be to dey do party with illegal money fear who no dey make noise o ![]() |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Eriokanmi: 11:17am On Aug 19, 2023 |
obembet:Ok |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Nobody: 11:20am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Josephkabila12:na ur papa be mumu see this mannerless tout ....no ever quote me again |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Hoodnigga123: 11:20am On Aug 19, 2023 |
You will think this list will be dominated by Igbo because they will tell you that Nigerians are suffering and they are the only one doing well |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by slowice(m): 11:25am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Westside in this m'fker no urchiin can achieve this.... Na motor park be their destiny.Proud of Y'all |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by dannyspeejay(m): 11:29am On Aug 19, 2023 |
i will pass there. ![]() |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by fabolouz1(m): 11:31am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Nigerians are the most gifted people on Earth but it's an irony that good leaders have eluded us at least for now. |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by BabaIbo: 11:37am On Aug 19, 2023 |
JaredH:You are ignorant honestly, and you don't want to learn. I'm not trying to be tribalistic here but I know the motive behind this post from op. A company its yearly revenue is over $1billion, a company that wants to buy Shell's $4billion equity, another $1.7billion firm and so on. You be mu² man. Gerraout jare! |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by EconomistXplain: 11:38am On Aug 19, 2023 |
all this guyz are richer than oni cubanna .but no none hears of them.... |
| Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by francotunsco: 11:39am On Aug 19, 2023 |
Whoelse checked the names? i didnt see the names of those who 'developed Lagos'! |
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