The Weekly Nugget Eversage Law Practice

From psychology to law to becoming Nigeria's first female Google Developer Expert, Ire Aderoniokun is a co-founder of Hellicarier, one of Nigeria's leading crypto-product developers. Ire joined us on the show to share her perspective on the questions we have been asking throughout tech month. 

Follow Ire on twitter @ireaderinokun to keep up with her journey and for the latest news about her female-only programming scholarship. 

As lawyers, our Clients typically do not accept "I don't know" as an answer. However, there are many topics that we have limited knowledge of, especially within the cryptocurrency space. 

Today we took a leap into the unknown in our discussion with Teju Adeyinka, Head of Growth at SendCash, a Nigerian-based funds transfer platform powered by cryptocurrency. 

To learn more about the concepts that we discussed in today's episode, you can follow the below links:

Teju's Publication on Medium - https://medium.com/tejus-publication

https://a16z.com/articles/

Articles by Linda Xie - https://muckrack.com/linda-xie/articles

You can also follow Teju on twitter @tejuadeyinka

For more information about SendCoins and other products geared towards cryptocurrency go to https://helicarrier.studio/

Fintech veteran, former systems engineer, and current Founder/CEO of Chaka, Tosin Osibudu joined us on the show to discuss the tech-related opportunities within the Nigerian Capital Market. 

Chaka is an online investment platform for both local (Nigerian) and international stocks. It is the first platform ever to receive the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission's newly launched Fintech license. 

To learn more about Chaka go to chaka.com

In this episode, we focused on the Nigerian tech ecosystem, its features, upsides and downsides, and the general outlook for future growth. We were joined by Ibifuro Apiafi, a Manager for Entrepreneur Selection and Growth at Endeavour Nigeria who was happy to discuss the Nigerian tech industry from her perspective working for an organisation dedicated to supporting Nigerian entrepreneurs. 

You can learn more about Ibifuro join the larger discussion about technology, start ups, and issues across the African technology ecosystem by listening to the Open Africa Podcast on Apple podcasts and other available streaming platforms. 

Follow the link to listen and share: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-open-africa-podcast/id1482229184

We sat down with the CEO of Aella Credit, Akin Jones, to talk about his groundbreaking platform and the impact it has had on the Nigerian banking industry. 

You can learn more about Aella Credit at aellaapp.com. You can also download the app from the Apple app store or Google play store. 

What's finance month without finance terms? Our guest took the time to talk us through some of the questions and cleared up some simple misunderstandings about what goes into a successful funding round, whether by equity or debt financing.