About
I build the bridge I wish existed when I started.
I'm Adewale Yusuf, a founder, investor, and speaker working at the intersection of African talent and global ambition.
I started Techpoint Africa in 2015 because nobody was telling the African tech story with the sharpness it deserved. A decade later, it's the continent's most-read tech and business platform.
In 2020 I co-founded TalentQL, placing African engineers into global teams that needed them more than they realized. A year later, the obvious follow-up: AltSchool Africa, a pan-African school producing the engineers, designers, and data scientists the market keeps asking for.
Today I split time between Austin, Lagos, Nairobi, Kigali and Accra. I invest in early Founders building the future, advise a handful of operators, and speak to rooms of investors, students, and policymakers about what comes next.
Companies built
Techpoint AfricaFounderAfrica's most-read media platform for technology, business, and innovation.2015
AltSchool AfricaCo-founderPan-African school training the next generation of software engineers, designers, and data scientists.2021
TalentQLCo-founderRecruitment and talent infrastructure connecting African engineers to global teams.2020
Philosophy
01
Build for the next billion, not the next slide.
If a product can’t survive a power-cut in Lagos and a Series A check committee in San Francisco, it isn’t finished yet.
02
Talent compounds. Marketing decays.
Every quarter spent hiring better is paid back four times over. Every quarter spent on growth hacks is rented.
03
Distance is a feature.
Operating across timezones, cultures, and currencies forces a clarity most domestic founders never need to develop.