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  • Odunayo Eweniyi

    Co-founder and General Partner, FirstCheck Africa

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Odunayo Eweniyi is co-founder and General Partner at FirstCheck Africa, a pre-seed and seed fund that invests in high-growth tech startups with at least one female founder. She is also the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of PiggyVest, Nigeria’s largest digital savings and micro-investment platform.

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    Odunayo Eweniyi

    Co-founder and General Partner, FirstCheck Africa

  • Eloho Omame

    Partner, TLcom & Co-Founder, FirstCheck Africa

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Eloho Omame is a venture capital investor and ecosystem builder focused on Africa’s technology and innovation economy. She is a Partner at TLcom Capital, a seed-to-early growth stage VC firm with approximately $250 million under management and a portfolio that includes Andela, Autocheck, Pula, SeamlessHR, Shara, Twiga Foods, uLesson, and Vendease. She represents the firm on the boards of several portfolio companies.

    In 2021, Eloho co-founded FirstCheck Africa, one of the continent’s first female-led, female-focused venture capital firms, backing early-stage startups with category-defining potential. Through FirstCheck, she is committed to bridging capital gaps for Africa’s women founders and unlocking their potential to build transformative companies. Her perspectives on innovation, technology, and venture investing have been featured in the Financial Times, TechCrunch, Quartz Africa, The Economist, and TechCabal.

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    Eloho Omame

    Partner, TLcom & Co-Founder, FirstCheck Africa

  • Ire Aderinokun

    Limited Partner, Angel Investor

    FUEL: THE INVESTOR CONFERENCE STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Ire Aderinokun is an investor, entrepreneur, and software engineer with a decade of experience building and backing technology ventures in frontier markets.

    As an invited Google Expert in Web Technologies specialising in the core user interface technologies of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, Ire has authored widely-read technical content and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world. She co-founded Helicarrier, a Y Combinator-backed blockchain company for Africa that built some of the continent’s earliest crypto-fintech products, and is passionate about how technology can support global financial inclusion.

    Ire partners closely with founders as an advisor, investor, and operator who understands the full startup journey. She brings a founder’s empathy and an operator’s discipline to early-stage investing, with a particular focus on mission-driven companies across Africa and other emerging markets.

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    Ire Aderinokun

    Limited Partner, Angel Investor

  • Dan Herman

    Innovation policy expert and filmmaker

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Dan Herman is a Toronto-based innovation policy expert, lecturer, and independent filmmaker. His film projects include directing and producing Magnetic Cities, an 18-part documentary series on the most innovative and dynamic cities around the world for startups. ​

    Dan is a lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he teaches a class on the evolution of the global innovation economy and how startups from everywhere are competing and winning on the global stage.

    Previously, Dan served as a senior policy advisor in the Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, and was the co-founder of the Centre for Digital Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance (DEEP Centre), a non-partisan think tank focused on the Canadian economy.

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    Dan Herman

    Innovation policy expert and filmmaker

  • Olumide Okubadejo

    Head of Product, Sabi

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Olumide is an AI Research Scientist and Product Builder with over ten years of experience in machine-learning models and building AI systems and products. He holds a PhD in AI Image Processing from Université Grenoble Alpes, a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton, and another in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from HEC Paris.
    Olumide has a strong background in product development, image processing, data science, computer vision, and machine learning. He is passionate about applying his expertise to create innovative and engaging solutions while teaching and sharing his knowledge.
    He is a guest professor at ESIEE Paris, where he teaches data science, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence to master’s students. Additionally, he is a certified LinkedIn instructor, having completed multiple courses on design thinking, leadership, and communication.

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    Olumide Okubadejo

    Head of Product, Sabi

  • Awazi Angbalaga-Joshua

    Co-Founder, Shaaré

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

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    Awazi Angbalaga-Joshua

    Co-Founder, Shaaré

  • Tobi Otokiti

    VP. Product, Raenest

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    With over a decade of experience, Tobi has shaped the future of financial and EduTech products across Africa, the US, Europe, and emerging markets. She’s worked at three unicorns – Flutterwave, Andela, and Interswitch, where she learned firsthand what it takes to build and scale products that truly make an impact. Now, as VP of Product at Raenest, she’s helping businesses and freelancers navigate the complexities of cross-border payments.

    Beyond her role, she is the founder of ProductDive, Africa’s largest product management community. She has trained and mentored hundreds of product managers, many of whom now lead top tech companies. A SheWinsAfrica Awardee, World Bank Group (2024), Future Female Leader Awardee, IESE Business School (2024), and TechWomen Emerging Leader, U.S. Department of State (2022), Oluwatobi has built a legacy of impact, inspiring the next generation of product leaders.

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    Tobi Otokiti

    VP. Product, Raenest

  • Dan Herman

    Innovation Policy Expert and Filmmaker

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Dan Herman is a Toronto-based innovation policy expert, lecturer, and independent filmmaker. His film projects include directing and producing Magnetic Cities, an 18-part documentary series on the most innovative and dynamic cities around the world for startups. ​Dan is a lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he teaches a class on the evolution of the global innovation economy and how startups from everywhere are competing and winning on the global stage.

    Previously, Dan served as a senior policy advisor in the Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, and was the co-founder of the Centre for Digital Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance (DEEP Centre), a non-partisan think tank focused on the Canadian economy.

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    Dan Herman

    Innovation Policy Expert and Filmmaker

  • Victor Fatanmi

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

    Co-founder, FourthCanvas

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    Victor Fatanmi

    Director, Strategy, FourthCanvas

  • Gennate Hassad

    Global Head of Financing, Gozem

    STARTUP FESTIVAL

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    Gennate Hassad

    Global Head of Financing, Gozem

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