High-impact entrepreneurs are committed not only to scaling their companies, but also to growing their local ecosystems. Historically, Endeavor Entrepreneurs typically grow their companies more than twice as fast, and create jobs more than five times as quickly as their peers.
Our Entrepreneurs
High-impact entrepreneurs are committed not only to scaling their companies, but also to growing their local ecosystems. Historically, Endeavor Entrepreneurs typically grow their companies more than twice as fast, and create jobs more than five times as quickly as their peers. They are also four times more likely to inspire and invest in the next generation of founders.
“Talent may be equally distributed, but opportunity certainly isn’t.”
Entrepreneurs everywhere face obstacles in scaling their businesses, but in emerging markets like Nigeria, they face additional barriers including high costs of operation, poor infrastructure, limited talent pools and management capacity, fewer role models and mentors, and constrained access to smart capital. Over more than 20 years, Endeavor has developed and honed a multi-local model that delivers critical access to mentorship, talent, expertise, capital, and new markets for our entrepreneurs. Endeavor’s 500+ staff and 4,000+ Endeavor Network members support Endeavor Entrepreneurs in Nigeria and 42 other high-growth markets to successfully grow their companies and become important nodes for wealth and job creation in their local economies.
Our Portfolio
Etop Ikpe
(Autochek)
Autochek is an auto tech company established to build digital solutions targeted at enhancing and enabling automotive commerce across Africa. The company aims to transform the automotive buying and selling experience for Africa consumers with its apps and digital solutions.
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Gbenga Agboola & Ife Orioke
(Flutterwave)
Flutterwave provides payments technology and infrastructure to enable people and businesses in Africa to connect with the global economy. Its solution enables banks and merchants to replace multiple payment integrations with one simple API, which enables processing of any form of payment (e.g. credit/debit cards, mobile money, USSD, ACH, QR code) anywhere on the continent.
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Kene Okwuosa & Moses Babatope
(FilmHouse & FilmOne)
FilmHouse and FilmOne are building platforms to support the thriving Nigerian film industry (Nollywood). FilmHouse is Nigeria’s largest chain of cinemas, screening Hollywood blockbusters alongside premium Nollywood films. FilmOne is the production and distribution arm of the company. It is the exclusive regional distributor for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., and co-produces a number of premium Nollywood films.
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Tayo Oviosu & Jay Alabraba
(Paga)
Paga is promoting financial inclusion across Nigeria as the country’s largest multichannel mobile money operator. In addition to its easy-to-use mobile wallet platform, Paga has built the country’s widest physical financial services distribution network (2.5x that of Nigeria’s 23 banks combined) by training and deploying 18K+ agents across convenient service points in all 36 states in Nigeria.
Chijioke & Ngozi Dozie
(Carbon)
By analyzing a consumer’s digital footprint, Carbon is able to assess credit-worthiness and provide short term, unsecured loans to any Nigerian with a smartphone and a bank account within 5 minutes, via a mobile app.
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Ekechi Nwokah
(Migo)
Migo is a cloud-based platform that partners with banks, mobile operators, retailers and payment processors in emerging markets to provide credit to underserved consumers. Migo leverages the data sets of its partners to originate, underwrite and distribute loans to their customers, significantly reducing the cost of delivering liquidity to lower-income segments.
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Christian Wessels & Jasper Graf von Hardenberg
(Daystar Power)
Daystar Power is working to close Africa’s power gap by providing commercial and industrial customers with cleaner, reliable and more affordable electricity. Offering pure solar and hybrid solar-fossil fuel power generation systems across West Africa, Daystar makes reliable, clean energy more accessible with a unique financing model that requires no upfront payment, transparent payment plans, and schedule maintenance.
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Onyekachi Izukanne, Michael Ukpong & Ruke Awaritefe
(TradeDepot)
TradeDepot is the leading B2B eCommerce and Inventory Finance platform in Africa with a mission to consolidate fragmented retail supply chains on the continent and connect the world’s top consumer goods manufacturers to retailers on the streets of Africa’s cities. Today, TradeDepot provides access to inventory and financing to over 60,000 micro retailers through its digital platform.
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Tosin Eniolorunda & Felix Ike
(Moniepoint)
Moniepoint provides financial technology solutions and infrastructure for underserved customers and businesses in emerging and frontier markets. The company creates highly accessible financial products for individuals and businesses that make it easier, faster, and cheaper for these individuals and businesses to perform and process financial transactions.
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Adegoke Olubusi & Dimeji Sofowora
(Helium Health)
Helium Health is building the digital infrastructure that will power world-class healthcare services across emerging markets. The company is on a mission to accelerate Africa's transition to a technology and data-driven healthcare sector.
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Adetayo Bamiduro & Chinedu Azodoh
Metro Africa Xpress (MAX)
MAX is building Africa's largest mobility-tech platform. It aims to serve the millions of independent commercial drivers across Africa who every day move people and goods to where they need to be through the use of 2, 3 and 4 wheeler vehicles.
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