Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

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Biography

Mr. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is a Founding Partner of Future Africa. He is a Co-Founder of Itana. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Itana. He serves as an Advisor at Africa Angels Network. He is the Co-Founder at Future Of Learning Fund. He Co-Founded Bookneto. He co-founded and served as the Managing Director, Board Member, and Chief Executive Officer at Flutterwave. He co-founded Moove Africa. He also previously co-founded Booklet. He is a Co-Founder at Accelerate Africa. He also serves as an Advisor at LAUNCH AFRICA Ventures and 8VC. He is an impact entrepreneur with a passion for building the future of Africa. He's spent the past 7 years building ventures in the education, technology, youth employment, publishing, and finance spaces. At 18, he interned for the World Youth Alliance at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York. He then went on to lead Imprint Publications, one of Canada's largest student-owned publishing houses, as President of the Board in 2010. He helped found and run Bookneto Inc, a social e-learning platform that was acquired in 2013 by the Canadian Innovation Centre. In 2014, He co-founded Andela to find the brightest young people in Africa and prepare them to become Africa's next generation of technology leaders through deep immersive remote-work experience with global technology companies like Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, and Google amongst others. Andela was named by CNN as one of the top 10 African Startups of 2014 and has raised investments from top Silicon Valley VCs and Angel Investors like Spark, Google Ventures, and Mark Zuckerberg. In May 2016, he left Andela to co-found Flutterwave, a payments technology company connecting Africa to the global economy with one API for processing any payment across Africa. Flutterwave is a Y Combinator company backed by several notable angels and VCs around the world. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He holds a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo. He served as a Venture Partner at HOF Capital (New York).