Erikan Obotetukudo
Founder of Audacity Assets
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
2021 - Current
Do you have the audacity to build the next 💯 years? Let’s do it together! We're a global venture firm for emerging economies.
Investor
2022
Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. (A Network State)
Raised $2,100,000.00 from Adaverse.
Investor
2021
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2021
Investor
2021
Investor
2021
Series A investment in Roll, a social tokens API for creators, influencers, and brands
Roll builds social token infrastructure for the creator economy.
Raised $12,700,000.00 from Mischief, Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Trevor McFedries, IOSG Ventures, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Beshara, Wei Zhou, Galaxy Interactive, blue 9 capital and Hyung Kim.
Investor
2021
Series A investment into YellowCard, a Pan-African crypto exchange.
Yellow Card facilitates buying and selling Stablecoins through local currency transactions.
Raised $89,500,000.00 from Hutt Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Blockchain Coinvestorsqq, Castle Island Ventures, Third Prime, Block, Inc., Winklevoss Capital and Polychain.
Angel Investor
2021
Angel investment apart of the community fundraise for Syndicate. Syndicate Protocol is the AngelList for DeFi. Building scalable models for DAO syndicate creation.
Advisory Board
2020
The Henry Kravis Leadership Institute sponsors a sound education program of leadership studies at Claremont McKenna College.
International Keynote Speaker
2015
My Style: Infectious Energy. Comedic Storytelling. Actionable Transformation. AUDACITY. Topics: Community and Movement Building, International Business Development, Sales, Linkedin, Branding and Positioning, Strategic Narratives. As seen in/with: TED, INBOUND, Entrepreneur, MIT, IKEA, Meltwater Entrepreneurship School of Technology, She Leads Africa, General Assembly, Now This, African Development Bank