Serial entrepreneur · Investor · Speaker · 10+ years building
I build the
bridge between
African talent
and global capital.
Founder of Techpoint Africa, AltSchool Africa, and TalentQL. I've spent the last decade moving people, capital, and ideas across borders.
On stage
Africa Tech Summit · London · 2024
10+
Years building
3
Companies founded
$10M+
Capital raised
50k+
Talents trained
As featured in
The empire
Three lanes.
One mission.
Operator. Investor. Voice. They feed each other — and the audience gets the compound interest.
The operator
Adewale, the builder
Three companies. Ten years. One thesis — African talent is the most under-priced asset of the next two decades.
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The investor
Adewale, the capital
Pre-seed and seed checks into category-defining African founders and the global startups with an African edge.
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The voice
Adewale, the platform
Stages, essays, podcasts, and products distilling a decade of building into ideas you can act on Monday.
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Lagos ↔ SF ↔ NYC
I work where the bridges need building.
Capital sits on one continent. Talent sits on another. Most of my career has been spent closing that distance.
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Manifesto
“Distribution is owned. Talent is born. The bridge between them is built — slowly, deliberately, by people who refuse to be invisible.”
— Adewale Yusuf
Built · Backed
An operating portfolio.
Three companies built. Twenty+ early-stage bets backed. The short list:
Companies built
Selected investments
Cova
Wealth
Bumpa
Commerce
Pivo
Fintech
Eden Life
Consumer
Vendease
B2B
Pastel
SMB SaaS
Curacel
Insurtech
Send
Logistics
In the room
“Adewale doesn't perform clarity — he is clarity. After thirty minutes, our team had a sharper roadmap than after two months of off-sites.”
“One of the few operators who can talk policy, product, and people in the same breath without losing the thread.”
“He moved our keynote audience from polite applause to standing ovation. The Q&A ran 40 minutes past schedule.”
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