Author: Dotun Olowoporoku

Here is my latest podcast and it is a discussion with Adeyinka Adewale of Kudi.ai. Adeyinka Adewale is the co-founder and CEO of Kudi.ai, a financial service provider that allows you pay people and businesses over messaging interfaces like Messenger, Skype, Slack, and Telegram. He is a graduate of Obafemi…

Paul Ziem is the founder and CEO of NerdCore, a digital entertainment studio poised to make very entertaining games, comics and other related products and services. Paul is of the opinion that gaming can change the African narrative. By the kinds of games developed, the story lines, the characters we can…

Edem Dotse is the founder and CEO of Swiftly, a disruptive peer-to-peer platform making shipping affordable for everyone. If you are shipping a container, you can find someone to share your extra space. Sending a package by Air, add it to someone who has extra space or yet still collaborate…

Okechukwu Ofili is the co-founder and CEO of Okadabooks, a book reading and publishing platform that has powered over 14,000 books, 137,000 readers and a million book downloads. They have bootstrapped their startup for the past three years and are now in the process of raising money from investors. Okadabooks…

Akin Jones is is the co-founder and CEO of Aella Credit, a provider of financial employee benefits. Aella credit is working towards eliminating the hassle of standard loan applications and enabling employees to borrow at competitive and fair rates through their employers. Akin Jones is one of the few startup…

On today’s episode, we have Kendall Ananyi, co-founder of Tizeti which operates as Wifi.com.ng.  Wifi.com.ng provides unlimited uncapped internet to users for less than $25 per month. I met Kendall Ananyi in his office in Lagos. We had a good debate about the state of startups in Africa, funding, challenges…..…