Olugbenga Agboola
Nigerian software engineer and entrepreneur (born 1985)
Olugbenga Agboola (born 1985) is a Nigerian software engineer, entrepreneur, and business leader. He is the CEO and co-founder of Flutterwave, Vice Chairman of the U.S.-Africa Business Center Board, and a member of prominent business organizations including the Milken Institute Africa Business Leaders Council, the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, and the Fast Company Impact Council.2
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Born 1984.1
About
He launched Go Time AI, which is designed to support African startups building artificial intelligence products which offers up to $200,000 in funding and mentorship to selected startups.
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Companies
- FlutterwaveFounder9
Early life and education
He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and an MBA from the University of Oxford's Said Business School. His educational background has contributed to his strong technical and business understanding.
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Career
Occupation: software engineer, entrepreneur, chief executive officer.4 6
- Date not recordedFounded Flutterwave5
Born in Lagos, Agboola is a graduate of the MBA program at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to founding Flutterwave with Iyinoluwa Aboyeji in 2016, he worked as an application engineer at PayPal and held roles in product management at Google. His earlier fintech venture, which focused on alternative payment methods, was acquired by a major Nigerian bank. Agboola acquired Mono, a Nigerian open-banking startup founded in 2020, through an all-stock deal valued at between $25 million and $40 million.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataOlugbenga Agboola on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaOlugbenga Agboola on Wikipedia
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- 4Wikidataeducation, as reported
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- 9WikidataFlutterwave, Founder