Bode Pedro is the real definition of a serial entrepreneur. With fifteen years of professional and entrepreneurship experience, he has already founded five firms. Yet, given his love for technology and innate curiosity, it wouldn’t be surprising to see him start more businesses. 

Nigerian serial entrepreneur Bode Pedro (photo) founded insurtech Casava in 2016 with Segun Makinde. With over 66,000 clients in Nigeria, the insurtech offers digital microinsurance services. 

In February 2022, Pedro described his startup’s mission as follows: “provide affordable insurance to Nigerians and Africans in general.” As such, the startup plans to expand its client base, first in Nigeria then gradually expand in Africa. 

To finance this expansion, Casava’s founders raised, last February, US$4 million from several investors like Olivier Jung, Tom Blomfield (founder of Monzo), Ed Robinson and Brandon Krieg (founders of Stash), in a round led by Target Global. 

Bode Pedro holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School (2020). A few years earlier, he obtained a computer science degree from the University of Baltimore. In 2005, he began his career in the U.S. as the associate director of entertainment firm Amplifyd Entertainement Inc. The next year, he became the director of Transnational Technologies, a U.S based electronics manufacturing firm.

In 2008, Pedro returned to Nigeria and launched Veda Technology, a computer assembly firm. Two years later, he became the boss of online entertainment platform BellaNaija, and in 2013  he founded Tripican.com, a movie ticketing platform. In 2014 and 2016 (the year in which he founded Casava), he founded VisaCover, an insurtech, and online car insurance broker, and Motocheck, a vehicle inspection, and maintenance company in Nigeria, respectively.

Also, since 2021, he is the MD of Rex Credit Company Private Ltd and a member of the board of Octosoft, a healthtech that leverages artificial intelligence for its health solutions. 

Melchior Koba