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Overview: Today, we're going to explore PiggyVest - the Nigerian savings and investment platform. We'll discuss the story across the following areas: African Banking & Neobank context  PiggyVest's early history Product & monetization strategy Competitive positioning & potential exit options Overall outlook This episode was recorded on Oct 30, 2024 Companies discussed: PiggyVest, Chipper Cash, Kuda Bank, Paystack, Flutterwave, FairMoney, Paystack, Brass, Cowrywise, Carbon, Chipper Cash, Interswitch, GTBank, Sterling Bank & UBA. Business concepts discussed: Neobank / Challenger bank / digital bank strategy, remittances Neobank monetization & Consumer Lending, consumer FinTech monetization strategy, consumer lending, retail banking strategy, customer segmentation strategy & low-end disruption Conversation highlights: (00:30) - Introduction (05:00) - African Banking & Neobank context (25:30) - Piggyvest's Founding Story (40:15) - Fundraising and Growth (52:30) - Geographical Expansion and Partnerships (01:18:52) - Product and Monetization strategy (01:35:20) - Competition and options for exit (01:54:35) - Bankole's overall thoughts and outlook (02:05:15) - Olumide's overall thoughts and outlook (02:15:45) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: Sisqo - Got to Get it video - Insane shit. Sisqo singing and dancing his heart out. So dope. Recommendation: Rob Berger's Personal Finance YouTube channel Recommendation: The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. Excellent book. A little bit of everything, entrepreneurship - history, politics, family life & hollywood.  Small win: I spent the week in Cusco & Lima, it was magical and fun. Some sand, some llamas, lots of dancing. Epic shit Bankole's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time Podcast & Active - Asake Small win: Running 25 miles a week Other content: These Nigerian universities produced the most startup founders - Nairametrics  Listeners: We'd love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback! Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com

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Overview: Today, we're going to talk about FairMoney, the credit-led Neobank in emerging markets.  we'll explore the FairMoney story across the following areas African lending & consumer credit FairMoney's founding & early history Product & monetization strategy Competitive positioning & potential exit options Overall outlook This episode was recorded on Oct 1, 2023 Companies discussed: FairMoney, Branch, PalmPay, Kuda Bank, Carbon, 54Gene, GTBank, Access Bank, Ecobank, PalmPay, Carbon, PiggyVest, Upstart, Tala, Visa, Mastercard Safaricom (M-Pesa), PayForce & Chipper Cash Business concepts discussed: Smartphone credit assessment, African customer segmentation strategy, Consumer lending, unbanked population, smartphone credit assessment, Neobank strategy & Personal Finance OS Conversation highlights: (03:01) - Intro (07:19) - African consumer lending & neobank context  (18:35) - Neobanking context and background (20:00) - FairMoney founding story and Founders' background (39:40) - Fundraising (45:46) - Geographical expansion (49:05) - Partnerships (50:16) - Acquisitions (55:42) - Team & Location strategy (58:03) - User metrics and traction (1:04:27) - Product and monetization strategy (1:24:04) - Competition and options for exit (1:35:44) - Bankole's overall thoughts and outlook (1:47:30) - Olumide's overall thoughts and outlook (1:55:17) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide's recommendations & small wins: Interested in investing in Africa Tech with Olumide: Read about Adamantium fund & contact me at olumide@afrobility.com. Founders looking for funding: If you're a B2B founder working on Education, Health, Finance or food, please contact me for funding at olumide@afrobility.com Checkout my FIREDOM book = FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) + Freedom = personal finance and financial independence book. Website, Read: Substack Newsletter & Buy: Print, eBook or Audiobook) Recommendation 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger book 1: The Education of a Bodybuilder   Recommendation 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger book 2: Total Recall - My Unbelievably True Life Story Recommendation 3: Richard Feynman's book: What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Feynman Book 2). I already read and recommended "Surely, you're joking Mr Feynman which was extraordinary) Recommendation 4: Finnaus YT channel tells stories about financial companies and investors. Awesome. I watched the history of JP Morgan, Howard Marks, Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Vanguard and on and on. I must have spent over 10 hours in the past week on it Small win: Hanging out in Rio de Janeiro. It was fun! Bankole's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: Zealot by Reza Aslan, Remember Me - Fireboy (FAEM remix) & Lonely At The Top - Asake (FAEM Remix) Small win: Exercising after recovering from an injury Other content: Laurin Hainy on TechPoint Africa, We Rich People Will Not Tell You How We Make Our Money - IG Reel, Moneylender licensing in Nigeria , Examples of spurious correlations & Titan: A Golden Case in Indian Retail Listeners: We'd love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback! Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com

Overview: Today, we're going to talk about Branch, the FinTech lending company and Neobank. We'll explore the story across the following 5 areas: African lending & consumer credit Branch's founding early history Product & monetization strategy Competitive positioning & potential exit options Overall outlook This episode was recorded on Sep 10, 2023 Companies discussed: Branch, Kiva, Kuda Bank, Chipper Cash, Earnin, Paga, FairMoney, MFS Africa, GTBank, Access Bank, Ecobank, PalmPay, Carbon, PiggyVest, Upstart, Tala, Visa, Mastercard & Safaricom Business concepts discussed: Credit scoring, Smartphone credit assessment, African customer segmentation strategy & low-end disruption, Consumer lending, , unbanked population,  smartphone credit assessment, Pan-African Banking Conversation highlights: (01:00) - What Branch is and why we're talking about it (07:40) - Africa consumer credit context and background (19:17:) - Branch International founding (23:31) - Founders' background (39:12) - Fundraising and Growth (51:40) - Geographical expansion  (1:02:01) - Acquisitions and Team overview (01:15:14) - Product strategy (1:33:20) - Monetization strategy and Costs (1:41:58) - Competition and options for exit (1:57:08) - Bankole's overall thoughts  (2:10:59) - Olumide's overall thoughts (2:30:20) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide's recommendations & small wins: Interested in investing in Africa Tech with Olumide: Read about Adamantium fund & contact me at olumide@afrobility.com. Founders looking for funding: If you're a B2B founder working on Education, Health, Finance or food, please contact me for funding at olumide@afrobility.com Checkout my FIREDOM book = FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) + Freedom = personal finance and financial independence book. Website, Read: Substack Newsletter & Buy: Print, eBook or Audiobook) Recommendation: Eminem - Rap God (OMFG I'm 12 years late, my mind exploded. WOW!) Recommendation: Can't Hurt Me (David Goggins). Incredible book about challenges David went to from parental abuse, racism to make something of himself. I went through waves of intense emotions while reading the book. At some points, I was crying in pain with David and other times I was in pure shock about what I was listening to. Small win: Hosted FIREDOM book launch event in London. Amazing conversations about life, managing money and growth. Dope shit. Bankole's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: American Prometheus by Kai Bird, A/B Testing with Fat Tails & Remember Me - Fireboy DML Small win: Chin-chin from a recent trip to Lagos Other content: Mobile overdraft facility Fuliza outshines Silicon Valley-backed lending apps in Kenya- TechCrunch & Inside Branch's 20 percent interest investment push to beat Nigerian bank offerings - TechCabal Listeners: We'd love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback! Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com

Africa is one of the lynchpins of Fintech's origins – key origins being Zopa's invention of P2P borrowing/lending in 2005 and mPesa's mobile money+ in 2007. In this episode we take a look at more recent innovation in Nigeria, Africa's largest country with a population of over 200 million. Piggyvest who launched in 2016 and […]

This episode is a profile of the public life of young Nigerian entrepreneur and communications specialist, Damilola Odufuwa. She talks about her love for the media, working in crypto and being a champion for women's rights. To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Peter Akinnusi, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

When Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah turned 30, she co-founded “Adventures from the bedrooms of African women,” an award-winning Ghanaian blog focused on sharing and documenting the experiences of women around sex, intimacy, dating and relationships. Through the blog, Nana is making the sexual pleasure of African women a gender equality priority.In this episode, the writer and feminist speaks about her first interaction with sex and why it's essential for women and girls to be taught about sex with honesty. She also discusses her new book, “The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing.” To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Peter Akinnusi, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

When S.I Ohumu turned 13, she began to experience feelings of loneliness, suicide and anxiety. She would later discover that her symptoms were a result of her mental health; she was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. In this episode about mental health, S.I talks about constantly fighting to stay afloat and the coping mechanisms she employs to do this. To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

Odun Eweniyi (COO & Co-Founder at PiggyVest) joins me on Tech Talks Daily to discuss how she's revolutionizing the savings & investments culture amongst young Nigerians. She is also a Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Technology Pioneer awardee. Based in Nigeria, PiggyVest is West Africa's first digital savings and micro-investment app with a focus on restoring trust and democratising financial services for Gen Zs & millennials. They've built a strong customer base of over 3.5 million users since launching in 2016 and in 2021 alone, the platform paid out over $582 million to its users. PiggyVest's growth is also especially impressive when you consider its last fundraise was a $1.1mn seed round in 2018. Why do savings & investments in Nigeria need change? There are very few countries in the world where savings are more of a necessity than Nigeria. Due to the severe lack of credit options, Nigerians are well-accustomed to paying for goods and services upfront, forcing them to rely heavily on their savings. However, with excessive bank charges and poor interest rates further eroded by high inflation, they are heavily disincentivized to save with traditional financial institutions, which often leave them with less money than their original deposits. Equally, the barriers to boosting wealth creation through investments are just as daunting. The average entry point to invest with formal financial institutions stands at 10,000 Naira, which is 8% of the average Nigerian's annual income. We discuss how technology is restoring trust and democratizing financial services for Gen Zs & millennials in Nigeria. I also learn more about how technology and innovation is sweeping across Africa.

This is a Piggyvest bonus episode featuring Nigerian law student, Temituope Kekema. In 2021, the law student made some investment choices that led her to lose a significant part of her savings. Through her story, we learn about investments and things to look out for when trying to grow money. To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Peter Akinnusi, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

This episode is a profile of the public life of Kenyan LGBTQ activist Marylize Biubwa. Marylize uses her social media accounts to dispel myths about women and the LGBTQ+ community. Growing up, she experienced abuse and was eventually sent out of home after coming out to her family. Since then, she has been a loud advocate for women like her.  Donate to Marylize's fundraiser here: https://tinyurl.com/ygxpy6jv.To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

When Musu was 14 years old, her family married her off to an older man. As a teenager, she was forced to deal with the consequences of child marriage. Now that she's much older, she shares how she was able to get her life back on track. To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

Finance has traditionally been dominated by men. But now that's starting to change. We talk to the female entrepreneurs in Africa who are using financial technology to give more people access to money and services - through apps, payment platforms and chatbots. Odunayo Eweniyi is the co-founder of Piggyvest in Nigeria, the first ever online app for personal savings and investment in West Africa. She tells us how she came up with the idea and how she's using FirstCheck Africa, an angel fund for women entrepreneurs, to help others. Jihan Abass, the founder and CEO of Griffin insurance, Kenya's first digital-only car insurance company, tells us about her ambitious plans to expand. Ethel Cofie, the boss of Edel Technology Consulting, who's been named as one of the top 5 women influencing technology in Africa, gives her advice to women starting out in tech. She's set up a support network, Women in Tech Africa. We also visit a coding bootcamp for young women in Ghana, called Developers in Vogue. Its founder, Ivy Barley, tells us why she set it up and we hear from the students about the difference it's made to their lives. Presenter and producer: Jo Critcher (Picture: Students at Developers in Vogue coding bootcamp in Ghana; Credit: Developers in Vogue)

In this episode, Nigerian actor, Nse Ikpe-Etim talks about being diagnosed with adenomyosis, a medical condition that affects the fertility of women. She discusses her journey to healing, and getting a hysterectomy. To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest.

10 years ago; Samoina Wangui was thrust into motherhood unprepared. She would later find out that her physical, mental and emotional struggles resulted from a medical condition known as postpartum depression (PPD). In this episode, she talks about dealing with PPD and helping others heal.She also talks about starting up a non-profit, postpartum depression Kenya, to help women heal. Reach out to postpartum depression Kenya here: https://www.facebook.com/ppdKE/ To get inside information about every episode, subscribe to our newsletter here. You will get behind-the-scenes information from Aisha Salaudeen, and find out what the rest of the team is up to. “I Like Girls” is Aisha Salaudeen, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja, Samiat Alamutu, Dorcas Ohwofasa, Dooski, Mo Isu, Ruth Olurounbi and Banggz. This episode is sponsored by Piggyvest. 

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Odun Eweniyi is the Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest, a secure online savings platform that is valuable for its flexible savings options. She is also a CoFounder of FirstCheck, an Investor Operative dedicated to aiding women in building companies, and the Feminist Coalition, a group of women that work together for Women's rights and were instrumental to the #EndSars Protests of 2022. Odun is intelligent, skilled and versatile in her field of operations, with talents ranging from marketing to sales, product management and business development. In this podcast episode, Odun shares her life and journey with me. It's an amazing and inspiring one. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/founders-connect/message

We're taking a look at some our favorite moments from last year's innovation festival. Here's a conversation about closing the gender financing gap with Allie Burns, CEO of Village Capital; Shruti Chandrasekhar, head of Startup Catalyst and SME Ventures and the Africa regional lead at the International Finance Corporation; and Odunayou Ewaneeyiee, cofounder and COO at Piggyvest.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://nairaweb.ng/2022/01/02/piggyvest-paid-out-242-billion-naira-in-2021-ceo-says/

In this episode of the Africa Series, Joke Adekunle spoke to Odun Eweniyi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Piggyvest - an online saving and investment platform founded in 2016 to help Nigerians achieve their financial goals. Today, the startup has over 3 million customers and has recently acquired companies like Abeg - popularly known as the Cashapp for Africa. Joke and Odun discussed modern finance in West Africa and building a FinTech startup on the continent. Here is what Joke asked Odun: Tell us a bit more about PiggyVest story You and your team launched PiggyVest at a time when digital banking wasn't well recognized or trusted. What were the learning curves you had to navigate at the time?  There's a lot of funding available today - especially for FinTech companies - how do you see that changing things in the African market?  What - in your opinion- are the most challenging parts of building a fintech company in Africa? What lessons have you learned lately about building a fintech business in Nigeria?  As an investor in several African companies, I'd like you to share your perspective on the idea that "every tech company today is or can be a fintech company" - do you agree? Still on the topic - PiggyVest acquired Abeg in 2020 - the startup popularly known as the Cashapp for Africa - what key factors led to that decision, and what are the opportunities for both companies with the acquisition? As an investor in several African companies, I'd like you to share your perspective on the idea that "every tech company today is or can be a fintech company" - do you agree? There's an emerging trend in the African fintech landscape of startups focused on the informal trade market; what are your thoughts on savings and investments for the informal market?  Given your experience, what trends do you see emerging in the African tech market that the world should pay attention to? PiggyVest has some interesting projects in the pipeline, I believe. So what should our expectations be over the next few months? 

Episode 1 of the bonus episodes of the Afropolitan Podcast. In this episode, our guest is Odun Ewenyi. She is the Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest and the co-founder of Wine and Whine and Feminist Coalition. Listen to Odun as she shares her story about her entrepreneurial journey into Fintech, the birth and sustenance of Piggyvest and the active role played during the October Protest.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://nairaweb.ng/2021/07/28/piggyvest-acquires-savi-paid-out-90-billion-naira-last-year/

In this Episode Fk and Jollz have a chat with Odun Eweniyi, Cofounder of PiggyVest and First Check Africa. She lets us in on her journey as an entrepreneur, trying out different business ideas and failing at them, still keeping a full time job while trying to run a business,dealing with concerns from her family and many more!Listen to the full episode for all the tea!Make sure you listen to the podcast telling us how much you enjoyed the episode!. Better Ratings mean even more people find out about the podcast!.Don't forget to use the hashtag ISWISPodcast to let us know what you think of the episode, we love hearing from you!.Follow us on Instagram @isaidwhatisaidpod@fkabudu @jolaayeye

An interview with Layo Ogunbanwo. Layo is the VP of Product Strategy for Piggyvest, a Nigerian fintech and also the founder of the Practical Product community, where she's aiming to demystify product management principles and adapt them to Africa's unique environment. Layo launched Practical Product with a groundbreaking report "The State of Product Management in Africa". We talk about a lot, including: Her work with Piggyvest in Nigeria, trying to bring financial services to Africans and the company's plans to develop across Africa What a VP of Product Strategy does and how / if it differs from other product management roles How her experience across sales & marketing led to a product management career, and how it helped her work cross-functionally Why she thought it was important to put together the State of PM in Africa report and ambitions for the future Whether there is any kind of pan-African solidarity amongst product managers or whether all countries are competing against each other How the report went down with its audience, what the take up and initial feedback has been like Some of the surprising findings from the report, and why they were surprising Some of the unique challenges of working in product management in Africa, and their root causes The gender balance in Africa, and Layo's work to champion equality for women across the continent Her hopes for African product managers for the upcoming year, and the desire for an African Silicon Valley And much more! Get The State of Product Management in Africa Report "The report is a collection of data that sets a benchmark and brings to life the trends driving product management in Africa. More than 200 product management professionals shared their insights and experiences with us."   Get the report here: State of Product Management in Africa Report. Contact Layo If you want to catch up with Layo, you can reach her on LinkedIn, Twitter. You can also visit Practical Product on their website practicalproduct.co

Join us for episode 33 with Odunayo the COO & Co-founder of PiggyVest, a company set up to help change the way millennials bank, save and think about money in Nigeria. How do you build a brilliant, forward thinking independent banking platform in a country where traditional banking & mobile infrastructure is still being built out and isn't always accessible to all? Tune in to find out!

Hey people! In this episode, I delve into everything money, how to make it, how to save it and others... I also talked about my first ever song feature and how to be joyful even in situations that are not exactly happy. Also, sneak peak; I spoke a bit of pidgin and about a giveaway coming soon so stay tuned and keep listening. Don't forget to follow the podcast on Instagram @grownthepodcast and follow the host @thedaradaniels on Instagram and Twitter. Use the #grownthepodcast to further the conversation on social media and answer the polls on whether you want to see the video form of the podcasts. The goal is to have 100 unique listeners by the end of this month. Happy new month my loves! Love, DD. Things mentioned in this episode: Indeed Job Finding App, Wema Bank, Piggyvest and other saving apps, ALAT by Wema etc.. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thegrownpodcast/message

Brought to you by Out of Hours. (Special discount for TRIBE below!)*Content warning: this episode talks about recent violence in Nigeria, which might be difficult for some listeners to hear*Today on the podcast we have Odunayo Eweniyi, the founder of Feminist Coalition, a group of young Nigerian feminists formed by Odun and her co-founder Dami in July 2020. Feminist Coalition, also known as FemCo, started with a clear mission to champion equality for women in Nigerian society. But in October, as the Nigerian ENDSARS movement surged, protesting the brutality of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Nigeria, they felt they had no choice but to act. They decided to help first by simply setting up a form for volunteer lawyers, and then went on to fundraise to support those affected by the protests with Medical and legal care. They raised over $380,000 in just two weeks, starting first raising Naira and then Bitcoin.Despite being launched less than a year ago, Odun and her co-founders Dami's work has been recognised across the globe, and being featured in countless of the most prestigious press:- They were featured on the Bloomberg 50 2020.- They were featured by Vogue as part of the 12 Women Leaders That Changed The World In 2020- They were listed in the Time 100 - the list of the most influential people in the world in 2020.In this episode we talked about how FemCo started, why they supported the victims of the ENDSARS protests switched to Bitcoin, how she managed to do it alongside her day job - COO of Piggyvest which counts over 2 million customers, and how she learnt to deal with criticism and the huge role her father played in who she is today. Hope you enjoy the episode. A huge thank you to our sponsor TRIBE!TRIBE are one of the UK's leading plant-based nutrition brands. You can get your first pack for just £2 (which includes shipping) at this link (wearetribe.co/outofhours) --> use the code "TRIBEOUTOFHOURS'". See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we host Odunayo Eweniyi. Odun is the co-founder and COO of Piggyvest - the largest savings and investments app in Nigeria. She's also the founder of FirstCheck Africa - an early-stage venture fund signing up to $25,000 for women founders in Africa. Odun is interviewed by Adenike Sheriff the co-founder and Principal of Future Africa. Invest In The Future is a live fireside chat series by Future Africa to learn from prolific angel investors who have invested in and built some of the world's most impactful technology companies. Learn more about Future Africa at www.future.africa

In this episode, we explore digital savings with PiggyVest's Odunayo Eweniyi. PiggyVest's competition is the wooden box that Nigerians were using to save cash. We'll talk about how the company designed the product to compel mass-market consumers to save digitally; how their use of social media and word of mouth built trust and engendered a savings culture, how Odun think about new products, like crypto and insurance, as well as geographic expansion, and more.4:19 - First question, what is PiggyVest's core competency, and how has the founders' past experiences helped them build the product and the company?8:27 - We discuss key features of the savings platform, like a 90-day savings period.11:37 - How did PiggyVest build trust amongst its users?15:30 - On product and geographic expansion.24:08 - Odun shares her thoughts on competition and the un-bundling (and re-bundling) of financial services by the fintech ecosystem.This episode is part of our conversational series sponsored by MFS Africa. MFS Africa's competition is with cash, and throughout this series, we'll feature other startups and entrepreneurs who are digitizing, better organizing, and aggregating analog and fragmented industries.Follow The Flip on social media @theflipafrica.

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Odunayo Eweniyi is Cofounder and COO of PiggyVest. She previously cofounded pushcv.com, one of the largest job sites in Africa with the largest database of prescreened candidates. In 2019 she was named one of Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Technology as well as 30 Quartz Africa Innovators 2019. She sits on the advisory board of TrainFuture, an Education Technology company based in Switzerland, as well as the Gender Lens Acceleration Best Practices Initiative, a collaborative effort of Village Capital, US and the International Finance Corporation's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative. She works to support the inclusion of women in technology by working with hubs and female-focused networks, including For Creative Girls, GreenHouse Labs, She Leads Africa, Itanna. She is also the cofounder of the women's community, Wine and Whine Nigeria.