Opeyemi Awoyemi
Founder and Managing Partner @ Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund
Lagos, Nigeria
Opeyemi Awoyemi is a pre-seed investor at Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund in Lagos focused on Payments and Software. Opeyemi Awoyemi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund. He previously worked at Moneymie as a Co-Founder. Opeyemi Awoyemi attended The Wharton School.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Opeyemi Awoyemi invests in
Stages Opeyemi Awoyemi invests in
Countries Opeyemi Awoyemi invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Pre-Seed
- $200k–$4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Payments 1 (11%)
- Software 1 (11%)
- InsurTech 1 (11%)
- Insurance 1 (11%)
- E-Commerce 1 (11%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 6 (67%)
- Seed 2 (22%)
Country
- Nigeria 3 (33%)
- United States 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Autogon AI offers a no-code AI infrastructure for businesses. Our product, Autogon Studio, provides a user-friendly platform that allows non-technical individuals to develop and deploy AI models and applications without the need for extensive coding knowledge. The platform supports various AI use cases, such as image classification, sentimentanalysis, fraud detection, and more, catering to a wide range of industries. Additionally, Autogon AI offers a marketplace where users can buy or sell AI projects and models, fostering collaboration and community support.Autogon DataLake provides a Generative AI interface for users to greatly interact with their data using natural languages they understand. | Seed / Feb 28, 2024 | ||
| Bumpa builds an infrastructure that helps digital commerce for African sellers; empowering small business owners to start, manage and grow successful businesses from their mobile phones. | $4M / Seed / Oct 19, 2022 | ||
| Klump offers flexible payment plans that give users the opportunity to purchase a desired product or service. | $780K / Pre-Seed / Mar 09, 2022 | ||
| We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Feb 14, 2022 | ||
| Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Feb 02, 2022 | ||
| Frain is developing a solution that will allow you to track all of your product's third-party dependencies from a single dashboard. | $473K / Pre-Seed / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Bumpa builds an infrastructure that helps digital commerce for African sellers; empowering small business owners to start, manage and grow successful businesses from their mobile phones. | $200K / Pre-Seed / Sep 02, 2021 | ||
| See all 9 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Fast Forward is a venture studio—and early-stage fund—that builds and backs companies to unlock prosperity in Africa through technology. Fast Forward’s venture studio selects up to 10 ideas and founding teams annually—with priority on platform and infrastructure plays—in sectors including (but not limited to) B2B, Fintech, eCommerce, Edtech,Healthcare, Logistics, Deep Tech, SaaS, Future of Work, and Blockchain. Fast Forward recruits dynamic entrepreneurs advancing concepts we believe will fast track to scale to at least 10M people and achieve >$10m ARR value in 3-5 years. As a fund, Fast Forward invests pro rata in future rounds of venture studio companies and makes select investments in pre-seed African startups. At Fast Forward, we put startup founders first. African entrepreneurs founding successful tech companies offer huge potential for exponential impact across the continent. African founders have the ability to scale business and social solutions, modernize economies, improve day to day lives and create jobs and upward mobility. Africa’s founder class can also bring additional benefits to the continent through philanthropy and positive political reform.
Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund Contacts
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Omolara Awoyemi
Co-Founder and Operating Partner
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Opeyemi Awoyemi
Founder and Managing Partner
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Jake Bright
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Opeyemi Awoyemi invest in?
Opeyemi Awoyemi invests primarily in Payments, Software and InsurTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Opeyemi Awoyemi invest in?
Opeyemi Awoyemi typically joins rounds of $200k–$4M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Opeyemi Awoyemi's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Opeyemi Awoyemi took part in.
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When did Opeyemi Awoyemi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Opeyemi Awoyemi closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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