Centre for Redefining Alternative Civic Engagement for Africa

R.A.C.E

Our Team

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Board

Iyinoluwa is an entrepreneur in the public interest.  She is passionate about building the future in Africa by working with fastest growing entrepreneurial communities to leverage technology as an instrument of change. She was the CEO of Flutterwave, a business building payments technology and infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy and led the company to become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all time processing over $2 billion across over 50 million transactions with annual revenues of millions of dollars a year. It also attracted significant investment from experienced players in the global payments arena such as Y Combinator (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree), Greenvisor Capital (Led by the Former CEO of Visa), Mastercard amongst others. Flutterwave became a unicorn in 2021, raising $170m at over $1 billion valuation. Prior to helping to co-found and lead Flutterwave. She co-founded Andela – Africa’s largest engineering organization with over 1000 software engineers which has received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures amongst others. I am a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Forbes 30 under 30 honouree and a member of Nigeria’s Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council.

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