She is a business analyst, consultant, and project management expert with over ten years of experience working with startups in Nigeria, and Africa in general. 

Nigerian-born Damilola Teidi-Ayoola (photo) is, since September 2022, Ventures Platform’s head of platform and networks. In that position, she leads a team focused on providing post-investment support.   

When she was appointed to that position, she declared she was “excited to join the team and build out different elements of the platform and networks practice.” 

“The goal is to build scalable support initiatives and harness the value of our collective networks to provide catalytic value to our founders,” she added. 

Ventures Platform is one of Africa's leading seed funders, investing from pre-seed to Series A rounds.   It has already invested in more than 60 companies in the healthcare, financial services, insurance, agriculture, education, big data, and internet infrastructure industries. It also invests in talented accelerators and digital infrastructures.  

Ms. Damilola worked at Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) as an Incubation Manager from 2018 to 2019 and as Director of Startup Coaching from 2019 to 2022.

With a Bsc in Information Technology from the Eastern Mediterranean University, she started her professional career, in 2011, working as a software developer for application service provider Socketworks. In 2013, she joined the tech company Kinetik Solutions Ltd as a market analyst. 

After a three-month internship at the University of Southampton's Program Management Office (iSolutions) in 2014, she joined the CcHub team for the first time where she was a business analyst for pre-incubation companies. From 2015 to 2017, she was the CEO of the Nigerian online ride-sharing platform GoMyWay Africa.

Melchior Koba