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TechPreneur: Get To Know Ire Aderinokun Of Helicarrier

Meet Ire Aderinokun, The Co-Founder, COO, and Vice President Of Engineering At Helicarrier. Founded in 2017 by Timi Ajiboye, Tomiwa Lasebikan and Ire Aderinokun, Helicarrier was originally Bitkoin Africa, a website for peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin trading. Upon getting into Y Combinator in 2018, Bitkoin Africa morphed into BuyCoins with a number of product offerings including crypto trading. Last…
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TechPreneur: Get To Know Seun Runsewe Of Chipper Cash

Seun Runsewe is a Senior Product Manager at Africa’s newest unicorn, Chipper Cash, which is now worth $2 billion. Before Chipper Cash, Seun was Vice President of Growth at Softcom, where she was leading efforts to deliver growth to Nigerian entrepreneurs through their digital bank, Eyowo. Prior to Softcom, she was the director of product at Opera-backed payments startup, OPay. She built and…
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TechPreneur: Get To Know Odunayo Eweniyi Of PiggyVest

Odunayo is the Co-founder & Chief Operations Officer of PiggyVest, the largest digital savings and investment platform in Nigeria. She previously co-founded pushcv.com, one of the largest job sites in Africa with the largest database of pre-screened candidates. She has…
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TechPreneur: Get To Know Folayemi Agusto Of tix.africa

Agusto is the CEO and a co-founder of tix.africa, a self-service ticketing platform for event organisers to list, manage, and collect payment for live and virtual events. The platform makes it easy for organisers to create and monetise live or virtual events, create customisable event pages, and secure payment collection via Paystack. It also gives guests a seamless way to book and attend live…
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