Wale Ayeni
Investor at Conduit
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner - Helios Digital Ventures
2022 - Current
Partnering with tech founders at the early-growth stage to build long-lasting digital businesses with an African nexus. Investing in early-growth Series B+ founder led tech companies.
Investor and Board Director
2023
Conduit is a better way for global businesses to simply and cheaply move money with faster speed, better visibility and fewer steps.
Raised $23,000,000.00 from Helios Investment Partners, TechMeetsTrader, Gaingels, Trajectory Ventures, Diagram Ventures, Portage Ventures, Fin Capital, Gradient, Jump Crypto and MacKenzie Brown.
Investor
2022
Investor
2022
Genesis Member
2022
VC3 DAO's mission is to build a new Venture Investment model & framework based on the principles of Decentralization, Global Community and Web3.
Head, Venture Capital Investments - Africa, Middle East & Central Asia
2021 - 2022
Lead IFC's Venture Capital Investments across Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, Deal lead on multi-sectoral investment strategy in technology in frontier markets. Member of the management committee of the IFC's Disruptive Technologies and Funds group.
Acting Global Head, Disruptive Technologies and Venture Capital Investments
2020 - 2021
Co-led and managed 20+ venture capital investment professionals in emerging and frontier markets across Africa, China, India, Middle East, Latin America & South East Asia, with ~$2.5B+AUM in venture assets. Member of the management committee of IFCs Disruptive Technologies and Funds group.
Head, Venture Capital Investments - Africa
2016 - 2020
Built out IFC's venture capital investment practice in Africa. Deal lead on multi-sectoral investments in tech on the African continent. Overall ownership of the Digital economy strategy.
IFC's Venture Capital group invests in ventures and growth stage companies.
Investor
2021 - 2022
Investor
2021 - 2022
Investor | Board Observer
2021 - 2022
Investor
2020 - 2022