Yele Bademosi
Founder and Managing Partner @ Microtraction
Lagos, Nigeria
Yele Bademosi is a seed investor at Microtraction in Lagos focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Yele Bademosi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nestcoin.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries Yele Bademosi invests in
Stages Yele Bademosi invests in
Countries Yele Bademosi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (67%)
- Financial Services 4 (44%)
- Payments 3 (33%)
- Blockchain 3 (33%)
- Finance 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (44%)
- Angel 2 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (22%)
Country
- United States 3 (33%)
- Nigeria 2 (22%)
- Switzerland 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $18.2M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| Nandi Labs thinks that by using the community's vast worldwide tapestry and impact, Web3 technology can unlock the power of Black culture's premier producers to develop a thriving ecosystem for new talent. We are erasing all boundaries to thrive at Digital FESTAC, unleashing the ideas of the most daring and fearless storytellers, so thatBlack dreams can become a reality. The immersive approach of Digital FESTAC to real-world and metaverse games, performances, and experiences will reinvent play, creativity, and ownership. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Sep 09, 2022 | ||
| Nandi Labs thinks that by using the community's vast worldwide tapestry and impact, Web3 technology can unlock the power of Black culture's premier producers to develop a thriving ecosystem for new talent. We are erasing all boundaries to thrive at Digital FESTAC, unleashing the ideas of the most daring and fearless storytellers, so thatBlack dreams can become a reality. The immersive approach of Digital FESTAC to real-world and metaverse games, performances, and experiences will reinvent play, creativity, and ownership. | $800K / Seed / Aug 03, 2022 | ||
| AO Labs provides a playground where Web 3 communities can collaborate, create, compete, and be themselves. | $4.5M / Seed / Aug 02, 2022 | ||
| ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online. | Pre-Seed / Oct 12, 2018 | ||
| Their mission is to Facilitate the free flow of finance and data in the school ecosystem. | Seed / Aug 16, 2018 | ||
| Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018.. | Angel / Aug 16, 2018 | ||
| Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts. | Angel / Aug 16, 2018 | ||
| ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online. | Pre-Seed / Jul 30, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Microtraction
Microtraction is an investment platform that funds Africa’s most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stages of their venture and helps them build enduring companiesThey identify the best early-stage, growth-driven technology startups with the potential to become billion dollar companies. They get startups to a point wherethey are impressive enough to raise more funding or join world-class accelerators. Finally, they introduce startups to later stage investors and help them navigate the process of raising a larger round of funding.
Microtraction Contacts
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Andy Volk
limited Partner & Global Advisor
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Yele Bademosi
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What does Yele Bademosi invest in?
Yele Bademosi invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Yele Bademosi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yele Bademosi closed in Oct 2022. 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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