Opeyemi Awoyemi

Managing Partner at Fast Forward Venture Studio

Opeyemi Awoyemi is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture investor with extensive experience in technology and business development across Africa. Currently serving as Managing Partner at Fast Forward Venture Studio, Opeyemi focuses on building and supporting early-stage companies. Opeyemi also contributes as an Evangelist at OlaCV, non-executive director at Mutual Benefits Life Assurance, and Innovator In Residence at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. Prior roles include co-founding Jobberman Nigeria, serving as a Senior Technical Product Manager at Indeed.com, and co-founding Moneymie. Opeyemi's educational background includes an MBA from The Wharton School and advanced growth education from Reforge.

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San Francisco, United States

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Fast Forward Venture Studio

We partner with ambitious founders to launch and fund companies unlocking prosperity in Africa using technology. This is done via a venture studio that builds companies and a syndicated fund investing in pre-seed tech companies led by African founders. We’ve backed 45+ startups with 16x multiple on money invested including Reliance Health, Bumpa, Altschool and Dojah.io Our founders built Jobberman, Nigeria’s largest job site and launched Jumia Pay (NYSE:JMIA). We can’t do this alone, join 200+ Africans who are taking charge of changing Africa one venture at a time through deal sharing, zoom sessions with founders and co-investing Join venture syndicate: bit.ly/ffjoin22


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Lagos, Nigeria

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