Oyinkansola Adebayo
CEO & Founder of Niyo Group
Oyinkansola Adebayo
CEO & Founder of Niyo Group
Birmingham, England
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
2018 - Current
Building: Niyo Labs - A gamified learn to earn platform powering up educational, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for the next 10 million earth citizens. Niyo Hair and Beauty (Jora) - The first AR-powered afro hair and beauty empire with a fleet of salons globally featuring gamified product drops and enhancing customer experience, innovative and ethical products and robust software.
Angel Investor
2024
Managing Director
2020
Running a 30 week full stack software development bootcamp with a purpose of upskilling black women and connecting them with employers
Scout
2021
Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent-building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We invest across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. I am particularly open to speaking to black female founders based in the UK who have disruptive ideas in the sectors aforementioned! (http://adaventures.com)
Angel Investor
2023 - 2024
Ada Ventures is the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are investing out of our second fund and we invest £250,000 - £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. Ada Ventures has chosen a second cohort of 20 Ada's Angels who are seed-series A specialist operators & founders in their sectors.
Angel Investor
2024
Angel Investor
2024
Angel Investor
2023
Angel Investor
2022
Investor
2021 - 2024
Future Africa an early-stage innovation fund that partners with mission-driven innovators turning the continent's most difficult challenges into global business opportunities. We are a community of innovators leveraging capital and coaching and community to turn Africa's most difficult challenges into global business opportunities. Our mission is to work with relevant stakeholders to empower innovators to build an abundant and just future where prosperity and purpose is within everyone's reach. We are primarily focused on investments in the technology, media, and infrastructure spaces.
Governor
2022 - 2022
Education
Master's degree (MSc)
2019 - 2020
July 2019 Cohort
2019 - 2019
BA(H) Business Management and Economics (SW)
2015 - 2019
Cambridge Checkpoint
2006 - 2009