Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Building a digital bank in Africa with Odun Eweniyi, COO of PiggyVest

In this episode of the Africa Series, Joke Adekunle spoke to Odun Eweniyi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Piggyvest - an online saving and investment platform founded in 2016 to help Nigerians achieve their financial goals. Today, the startup has over 3 million customers and has recently acquired companies like Abeg - popularly known as the Cashapp for Africa.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Early Stage Investment and Fundraising with Tobi Oke of V8 Capital Partners

In this episode, Adejoke Adekunle discusses capital access and technology investments for start-ups in Africa, what it takes to raise funds in today’s tech ecosystem and the intersection of FinTech across sectors and more with Tobi Oke, Managing Partner at V8 Capital Partners, both based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Infibranches' vision to close the financial and energy access gap in Africa

In this episode of Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle, Adejoke speaks to the CEO of Infibranches Technologies, Olusola Owoyemi, based in Nigeria, about what it takes to solve Africa’s last-mile problems, the misconceptions about rural communities and how Infibranches Technologies is using access to financial services as a lever to close the gap on everything else.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Hello Tractor - Power (tractors) to the people (farmers)! Pay-as-you-go financing with Mastercard

In this episode, we discuss farm mechanization in Africa, how Mastercard accelerates the Hello Tractor vision to close the mechanization gap in Africa and how the company uses data and IoT technology to enhance tractor financing.

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