With over ten years of experience in tech entrepreneurship, she has founded two companies that develop useful tech solutions adapted to African markets. Her entrepreneurial drive and innovations have been celebrated with several awards and distinctions. 

Olajumoke Oduwole (photo) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and computer scientist. She graduated, in 2015, from the University of Lagos with a Master's in systems engineering with a major in artificial intelligence and software.   

In 2021, she co-founded the fintech startup Alajo, of which she is currently the CEO. Through its eponymous application, her startup digitizes savings and credit transactions via a USSD infrastructure. The said application is designed for merchants, fast-growing businesses, unbanked, and even underbanked individuals. It has already helped its users save over 373 million naira (443,600 euros).

“Opportunely, the under- and un-banked now have access to financial products, services, and opportunities from corporates through data analyzed from their transactions,” Ms. Olajumoke told Disrupt Africa in April 2023.  

Thanks to Alajo, Olajumoke Oduwole and Eniola Oladeinde (the co-founder of Alajo) took part in the Google for Startup Accelerator: Women Founders program. 

Before Alajo, Ms. Olajumoke had already founded, in 2014, KJK Africa, a software development firm that creates sustainable software products and offers services aimed at increasing business efficiency, strengthening customer relationships, raising the visibility of operations, and increasing sales.

From 2012 to 2013, she worked for Bethel Group of Companies as a senior developer and IT manager.  She also headed the brand, IT, and digital transformation departments at RegCharles Finance & Capital from 2013 to 2014. In 2018, she was a communications consultant to the Presidential Council for an Enabling Business Environment, Nigeria (PEBEC-EBES).

She has received several distinctions and awards for her work. In 2018, she was a top 10 finalist in the Seyi Tinubu Empowerment Program's Rising Tech Entrepreneur. In 2020, she made it to the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list. 

Melchior Koba