Tag: Female-founder
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Startup Spotlight: Zimi
Zimi is a cross-border commerce provider founded in 2023 by Audrey Djiya with a mission to simplify global expansion for international brands. Zimi empowers and encourages businesses to succeed in new markets by streamlining their cross-border logistics, offering seamless fulfilment and automating secure international payments on its platforms. The company’s vision is to make selling…
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Woman In Tech For The Week: Elizabeth Okaome
Elizabeth Okaome has been a community manager for over seven years and an advocate for women in tech. She is the founder of Empower Her, a female tech community whose goal is to get as many women as possible into the tech space. Her community, which was founded in 2021, currently has over 6,000 women in…
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Woman in Tech For the Week: Amanda Etuk
Amanda Etuk is an entrepreneur and logistics expert based in Lagos, Nigeria. She co-founded Messenger, a platform that optimises deliveries by providing financial services to logistics entrepreneurs. Amanda founded this company with the aim of transforming the logistics industry in Nigeria. Her experience in senior roles at companies like 54gene, Zippy Logistics, and Hygeia HMO…
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5 Inspiring Women in Tech to Follow on Social Media
Sometimes, all we need is a little inspiration to continue pushing forward in a male-dominated industry. We need constant reminders that we are doing a great job and are not alone. What better way to get that than following and seeing daily updates from inspiring women in tech who have successfully navigated that path? By…
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Woman in Tech For the Week: Omotola Eunice Omotayo
Omotola is a leader who is passionate about women, community, open source, advocacy, diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is an experienced community builder and manager who is known for creating welcoming, safe spaces for community users. As a prominent voice for diversity and inclusion, especially within the tech industry, Omotola has used her platform to…
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Startup Spotlight: Jumba
Jumba is a Kenyan construction technology platform that aims to make constructing a house seamless, efficient, and affordable. Founded in 2022, Jumba streamlines B2B construction material purchases and financing, empowering hardware retailers and real estate developers to access the supplies they need. Jumba provides a one-stop shop for construction materials and a short-term financing option.…
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Women in Tech For The Week: Daisy Isiaho
Daisy Isiaho is the co-founder and chief product officer at Zuri Health, a virtual health hospital that provides convenient and affordable healthcare to people across Saharan Africa. She is an outstanding business leader, mentor, and go-getter in the corporate sector. Daisy has served as the Key Accounts Manager at Marketforce360 and the Chief Customer Officer…
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Woman in Tech For The Week: Haneefah Abdurrahman Lekki
Haneefah Abdurrahman Lekki is an award-winning tech community builder passionate about improving tech communities in Africa. She is the community manager at Ingressive for Good, a non-profit organisation dedicated to training 1,000,000 African youths and placing 5,000 of them in jobs. The organisation’s mission is to create and increase the earning power of African youth…
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Woman In Tech For The Week: Omotolani Olowosule
Omotolani Olwosule is a leading cybersecurity expert with over 8+ years of experience as a cybersecurity professional in information security, behavioural human factors of security, security architecture, compliance, risk and governance. Omotolani has a PhD in Cloud Cybersecurity, and as a recognised expert, she shares her knowledge through speaking engagements and research. She has been…
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Meet Omolara Sanni, Winner of Wetech’s PitchHer Contest 2024
On September 28th, Wetech celebrated its 5th anniversary in Lagos, Nigeria. At this event, the PitchHer contest brought together five startup founders. Omolara Sanni, the co-founder of Midddleman, a platform helping e-commerce businesses pay suppliers in China, emerged as the winner of the Pitch contest. The Stack Journal spoke with Omolara to discuss her background…