Grief, Growth and $4.4M: What Five Years of Showing Up Really Looks Like for a Nigerian Founder
Kelvin saves his name in people's phones as "Kelvin Bumpa." Not as a stunt. Not as a branding exercise. It is just what happens when you spend five years pouring yourself so completely into something ...
27 Huhti 1h 24min
Paul Onwuanibe on Building a $150M Empire: The Secret Most African Founders Will Never Know!
Send money with Sendwave from the US, UK and Canada to Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. Fast and easy. Use the code FoundersConnect when you make your first transfer from the US, UK, or Canada to Nigeria or...
22 Huhti 1h 48min
How Olumide Akintola Built Three Completely Different Business Models for Three African Markets
What does it actually take to go from walking Ibadan markets in sandals - because your shoe size didn't exist in Nigeria — to scaling a brand to 800,000 customers while spending less than 30% of your ...
31 Maalis 1h 48min
This Investor Who Has Seen 500M+ in Deals Explains Why Startups Shouldn't Take VC | Nichole Yembra
Nichole Yembra is a force of nature in the African tech ecosystem. As a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and an Obama Foundation Leader, she has overseen over $500 million in capital raises and fostered the...
10 Maalis 1h 30min
She left Oil & Gas at 40 With No Business Experience to build a Billion-Naira Empire
What does it actually take to build a business that lasts 25 years in Nigeria — through recessions, exchange rate crashes, COVID, counterfeit competitors, and a rapidly changing economy? Mrs. Temilola...
9 Maalis 1h 16min
Samuel Okwuada on building Healthtech in Nigeria and the Challenges that come with it
Samuel Okwuada sold his first software company for hundreds of thousands of dollars at 17 while studying pharmacy in the UK. Today, he runs Remedial Health, a YCombinator-backed Nigerian Healthtech st...
22 Helmi 1h 39min
How to Benjamin Dada Built A Media Company While Climbing Corporate Ladders
What is it like to build one of Africa's leading tech media platforms while also moving up in the corporate fintech world? Benjamin Dada, founder of Condia (formerly benjamindada.com), joins us to sha...
16 Helmi 1h 21min
How June Angelides Went From Yaba to Backing $100M+ Startups Across Africa & Europe
June Angelides MBE is a globally recognized venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and one of the most influential voices in tech, inclusive leadership, and investing in Africa and Europe. In this Founders...
6 Helmi 1h 18min
