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ZEROPOD: a zero-copyright video podcast for people who enjoy ethereumZEROPOD S2 E10: "Credit Where It's Due" with Yele Bademosi, founder of Onboard .Welcome back to another episode of ZEROPOD our zero copyright video podcast for people who enjoy Ethereum. This week we were excited to welcome as our guest Yele Bademosi the founder of many things in this space, but most recently Onboard, which is a digital wallet designed as a full service neobank for onchain creators. In this pod, host Toady Hawk from Zero Rights Media talks with Yele about his upbringing in Nigeria, his schooling in London and his series of interesting start-ups since. They chat about why he was drawn to build on Ethereum, and specifically on Base...
2025-02-111h 11
CoinDesk Podcast NetworkGEN C: Nigeria's Crypto Revolution: Beyond the Currency CrisisLive from Stellar Meridian, host Sam Ewen discusses with guests how Nigeria's currency crisis is spurring innovation in blockchain technology.In this special episode of Gen C, Gwera Kiwana, VP of blockchain at Onafriq, joins Nestcoin CEO Yele Bademosi at CoinDesk Live at Stellar Meridian to discuss the currency crisis in Africa and how crypto can provide a solution for payments in the region.Links mentioned from the podcast: Gwera’s TwitterYele’s TwitterOnafriq WebsiteNestcoin WebsiteWatch this episode on video:YouTubeCoinDeskFollow us on Twitter: Sam Ewen, Avery Akkineni, CoinDesk...
2024-10-2326 min
Gen CNigeria's Crypto Revolution: Beyond the Currency CrisisLive from Stellar Meridian, host Sam Ewen discusses with guests how Nigeria's currency crisis is spurring innovation in blockchain technology. In this special episode of Gen C, Gwera Kiwana, VP of blockchain at Onafriq, joins Nestcoin CEO Yele Bademosi at CoinDesk Live at Stellar Meridian to discuss the currency crisis in Africa and how crypto can provide a solution for payments in the region.Links mentioned from the podcast: Gwera’s TwitterYele’s TwitterOnafriq WebsiteNestcoin Website Watch this episode on video:YouTubeCoinDeskFollow us on Twitter: Sam Ewen, Avery Akkineni, CoinDesk...
2024-10-2326 min
Into the Bytecode#38 – BaseCamp 001: Jesse Pollak (Base), Ben Leventhal (Blackbird), Julian Holguin (Doodles), Yele Bademosi (Onboard)This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak (creator of Base), Ben Leventhal (founder/CEO of Blackbird), Julian Holguin (CEO of Doodles), and Yele Bademosi (cofounder/CEO of Onboard).Timestamps:(00:00) - intro
(00:50) - Jesse Pollak, Base
(09:41) - how the Base team is structured
(17:25) - how the mission and strategy came together
(27:43) - the focus in year two
(35:38) - Ben Leventhal, Blackbird
(39:35) - the restaurant P&L
(43:36) - identity and payments
(51:25) - Flynet as an L3
(53:11) - building an economy
(55:46) - the current era of crypto
(57:27) - Julian Holguin, Doodles
(59:40) - the status quo and the new...
2024-08-141h 35
On Air with Titi OyinsanBlockchain In Financial Services // Blockchain Mastery With Bolu AbiodunWith the advent of blockchain technology, financial services institutions can now offer faster, cheaper, and more secure payment and settlement solutions to their customers.This technology has also enabled the creation of new financial instruments, such as digitalcurrencies, that are not tied to any specific government or central authority.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We’re joined by Bolu Abiodun, a Senior Reporter at Techpoint Africa. While he reports on techtrends and innovation across Africa, he is renowned for his coverage of blockchain technologywhere he has interviewed key stakeholders in the space such as Tet...
2024-07-2243 min
#BuildOurAfrica Speaker SeriesScaling Success: Navigating Africa's Tech Frontier - Startup Growth, Funding, and ProfitabilityJoin us as we delve into the dynamic landscape of African tech startups with the brilliant Yele Bademosi, co-founder and CEO of Nestcoin. Discover the shifting tides of tech funding in Africa and gain invaluable insights on growing your startup amidst industry changes. From venture capital to profitability, Yele shares expert advice on scaling your tech startup for success. Tune in for a compelling discussion on the future of African entrepreneurship! Special Guest: Yele Bademosi.
2024-03-121h 02
D.Y.O.R Podcast ShowMoney should be Borderless. It is with Onboard! Join our blocktrain conversation with Yele Bademosi of NestcoinJoin our blocktrain conversation with Yele Bademosi of Nestcoin as we discuss about onboard . Their Mission: To create universal access to world-class financial services. Building @OnboardWallet, Founded @Microtraction
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2023-10-0105 min
crypto@scaleWallets & Crypto Adoption with Nestcoin's Yele Bademosi & WalletConnect's Will WhiteIn today’s episode, we’re joined by Yele Bademosi, the Co-founder and CEO of Nestcoin, and Will White, the COO of WalletConnect, to talk about a critical piece of crypto infrastructure: Wallets.When talking about wallets here, we’re talking about non-custodial wallets - where users have full access and control over their private keys, unlike a custodial wallet which relies on and trusts third parties. In the context of web3, we’re excited by the opportunities enabled by connecting a wallet and a user’s tokens or transaction history to a decentralized application. At the sam...
2023-06-0851 min
Connecting the dots in FinTech... by Marcel van OostFTX processed billions monthly in Africa before going bust; & more!Join the club
NEWS HIGHLIGHT
FTX processed billions monthly in Africa before going bust. One of the startups affected by the collapse was Nestcoin, which has laid off some employees as FTX’s demise impacted its business according to the information shared in a tweet by CEO, Yele Bademosi. Link here
BREAKING NEWS
Afterpay and Zip react to proposed buy now pay later regulations, and share differing opinions on new regulation options put forward by the Treasury will impact the buy now, pay later sector. Link here
Starling Bank de...
2022-11-2403 min
Africa Tech NewsNestcoin’s Metaverse Magna Raises $3.2 Million To Build Africa’s Largest Gaming CommunityMetaverse Magna, a blockchain gaming platform, has raised a $3.2 million seed sale token round to expand its efforts to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO and provide gamers with access to world-class opportunities. Nestcoin’s CEO and co-founder, Yele Bademosi, says that the opportunity for Metaverse Magna came from the number of gamers on the continent, combined with the absence of any platform that operated at the intersection of cryptocurrency and gaming on the continent. Bademosi added that his main driving force has been to see digital assets adopted more widely in the mainstream and used as a tool...
2022-09-0902 min
Founders ConnectInterview with Yele Bademosi, Co-founder of Nestcoin, Founder of Bundle Africa & MicrotractionYele Bademosi is a Tech entrepreneur and investor who is passionate about helping his home continent of Africa. Yele studied Medicine at King’s College London before opting out to focus on technology entrepreneurship.
He is the co-founder of Nestcoin, Founder of Bundle and Founding Partner of Microtraction. He was also a director at the venture capital arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
In this episode, Yele speaks to me about his journey into entrepreneurship, his passion for investment and cryptocurrency. He also sheds light on the solutions Nestcoin will be providing to expo...
2022-02-021h 15
AfropolitanBuilding For The Future - Yele BademosiToday, we chat with Yele Bademosi, CEO at Bundle Africa, the Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto, aiming to drive crypto adoption in Africa and bringing more economic freedom and prosperity to all Africans. Yele is focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Africa, accelerating Africa’s transition into a sustainable and developed economy by leveraging capital, innovation, and policy.He is a Founding Partner at Microtraction, which funds Africa’s most remarkable teams at early-stage startups across multiple sectors including finance and cryptocurrency... In this episode, Yele Bademosi tells us the story of his journey, his evol...
2021-07-3053 min
AfropolitanBuilding For The Future - Yele BademosiToday, we chat with Yele Bademosi, CEO at Bundle Africa, the Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto, aiming to drive crypto adoption in Africa and bringing more economic freedom and prosperity to all Africans. Yele is focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Africa, accelerating Africa’s transition into a sustainable and developed economy by leveraging capital, innovation, and policy.He is a Founding Partner at Microtraction, which funds Africa’s most remarkable teams at early-stage startups across multiple sectors including finance and cryptocurrency... In this episode, Yele Bademosi tells us the story of his journey, his evol...
2021-07-3053 min
AfropolitanBuilding For The Future - Yele BademosiToday, we chat with Yele Bademosi, CEO at Bundle Africa, the Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto, aiming to drive crypto adoption in Africa and bringing more economic freedom and prosperity to all Africans. Yele is focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Africa, accelerating Africa’s transition into a sustainable and developed economy by leveraging capital, innovation, and policy.He is a Founding Partner at Microtraction, which funds Africa’s most remarkable teams at early-stage startups across multiple sectors including finance and cryptocurrency... In this episode, Yele Bademosi tells us the story of his journey, his evol...
2021-07-3053 min
Invest In The FutureEpisode 4 With Yele Bademosi - Founder Bundle Africa & Founding Partner, MicrotractionIn this episode, we speak with Yele Bademosi - founder of social cryptocurrency app Bundle Africa & founding partner of early-stage Africa-focused VC firm, Microtraction. Yele discusses his journey from medicine to technology - learning design, code, marketing and eventually venture capital. We also discuss the opportunity for crypto to transform Africa and how Yele measures startups to invest in at Microtraction. Speaking with Yele is Olabinjo Adeniran, Co-founder and Growth Partner at Futrue Africa.
Invest In The Future is a live fireside chat series by Future Africa to learn from prolific angel investors who have invested in...
2021-05-0556 min
CoinDesk ReportsMONEY REIMAGINED: Bitcoin in Nigeria: Where Western Business Models Go to DieIn what has become a de facto world tour of crypto hot spots, this week “Money Reimagined” is headed to Nigeria.This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange.We talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs – Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa, and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator – about the burgeoning crypto innovation ecosystem in their country. Among this entertaining pair’s many insights was the idea the Nigerian Central Bank’s February order that banks shut down crypto companies’ access ended up being a positive for the industr...
2021-04-3045 min
Money ReimaginedBitcoin in Nigeria: Where Western Business Models Go to DieIn what has become a de facto world tour of crypto hot spots, this week “Money Reimagined” is headed to Nigeria.This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange.We talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs – Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa, and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator – about the burgeoning crypto innovation ecosystem in their country. Among this entertaining pair’s many insights was the idea the Nigerian Central Bank’s February order that banks shut down crypto companies’ access ended up being a positive for the industr...
2021-04-3045 min
The Mix: A Diversity PodcastS2E6 Investing in Black EntrepreneursOn this episode we sit down with early stage startup investor Yele Bademosi. Yele is founder of Bundle (a cryptocurrency platform) & Microtraction (a VC fund that backs early stage African startups) based in Lagos, Nigeria. We explore the under representation of Black founders in the technology ecosystem. Why do Black entrepreneurs struggle with receiving investments from VC funds not just locally here in the US, but globally? Yele shares practical tips for how founders can overcome this obstacle, and sheds some light on why investing in black businesses is not only the right thing to do but can lead...
2021-04-2448 min
The FlipThe Case for Crypto with Bundle's Yele BademosiIn this episode, we talk about cryptocurrency with the Co-Founder and CEO of Bundle, and the Founding Partner of Microtraction, Yele Bademosi. Beyond trading and price volatility, what is it about crypto that excites Yele and so many others on the continent?Throughout the series of episodes, we're exploring the entrepreneurs in start-ups digitizing informal and fragmented industries on the continent. And despite the technological underpinnings of cryptocurrency as a whole, many of the buying and selling processes and use cases of crypto today are still quite informal and fragmented. In this episode, we hear from Yele...
2021-02-2540 min
Bitcoin KEInterview with Yele - Bundle AfricaWe caught up with Yele Bademosi, the founder and CEO of Bundle Africa, a unique social payments app for cash or crypto in Nigeria.Bundle Africa is a social payments app for cash or crypto. With Bundle, you can send cash or cryptocurrency to any phone number in Nigeria for free.In this podcast, Yele answers the following questions:What was the inspiration behind Bundle Africa?You define Bundle Africa as a social payments app. What is a social payments app?How has your experience...
2020-11-0223 min
The Rhys Show#71 Yele Bademosi: #EndSARS and The Rise of Nigerian TechYele Bademosi is the CEO of Bundle Africa, a social payments app, and a founding partner of Microtraction, which funds African tech. He was previously a director at Binance. We chat about building tech infrastructure for Africa and the current #EndSARS protests in Nigeria.
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2020-10-1957 min
Building The Future Podcast#68, Yele Bademosi - On people, startups and funding in Africa, pt 2This is the second part of my conversation with Yele Bademosi, you can listen to the first part of this conversation in the last episode of this podcast series. Apart from being the founding partner at Microtraction, Yele is also the founder and CEO of Bundle a social application for cash and cryptocurrency transactions. Yele is the first person I go-to for any question I have on blockchain and cryptocurrency.In this episode, Yele and I discussed his previous role as a director at Binance LB and his highly optimistic views on blockchain and cryptocurrency in Africa...
2020-09-0136 min
Building The Future Podcast#67, Yele Bademosi - On people, startups and funding in Africa, pt 1My guest today is Yele Bademosi. Yele is the founder of Microtraction, an angel investment platform that funds Africa’s technology entrepreneurs in their early stage. Microtraction is one of the most active pre-seed investment firms in Nigeria. Yele and I have known each other for some time. We’ve worked together closely in the past, when he became the first person to join my previous company, Starta, barely a few weeks after it was founded in late 2015. It is quite fitting that Yele is the first guest on season 4 of this podcast after a long break. We recorded this...
2020-08-2540 min
Identity & Tech TalkEP 6 PART 2 -How tech solutions can be applied smartly in Nigeria*RECORDED IN QUARANTINE* Audio may have slight distortion.This week on the IDT podcast, Yele Bademosi shares parts of his journey & how technology solutions can be applied smartly in Nigeria. Whether you are a seasoned tech pro or a dilettante, this tech podcast will educate you to leverage technology to be a fun, useful and accessible tool for all aspects of life and also serve as a blueprint for achieving your career goals with technology.
2020-05-2429 minIdentity & Tech TalkEP 6 PART 1 -How tech solutions can be applied smartly in Nigeria*RECORDED IN QUARANTINE* Audio may have slight distortion.This week on the IDT podcast, Yele Bademosi shares parts of his journey & how technology solutions can be applied smartly in Nigeria. Whether you are a seasoned tech pro or a dilettante, this tech podcast will educate you to leverage technology to be a fun, useful and accessible tool for all aspects of life and also serve as a blueprint for achieving your career goals with technology.
2020-05-1928 min
UnchainedWhy Africa Is Poised to Be the Next Hub for Crypto DevelopmentSoona Amhaz, general partner at Volt Capital, and Yele Bademosi, founder of Microtransaction, explain why they believe Africa is poised to become a hub for crypto development. They give some interesting stats on how crypto is currently used and traded on the continent, plus talk about how these factors interplay with the region’s unique demographics and the status of some of the continent’s fiat currencies to create what could be a unique environment for increased crypto activity. They end with what they think crypto entrepreneurs should be working on to help further that development. Thank you...
2020-03-1030 minUnchainedWhy Africa Is Poised to Be the Next Hub for Crypto DevelopmentSoona Amhaz, general partner at Volt Capital, and Yele Bademosi, founder of Microtransaction, explain why they believe Africa is poised to become a hub for crypto development. They give some interesting stats on how crypto is currently used and traded on the continent, plus talk about how these factors interplay with the region’s unique demographics and the status of some of the continent’s fiat currencies to create what could be a unique environment for increased crypto activity. They end with what they think crypto entrepreneurs should be working on to help further that development. Thank you...
2020-03-1030 min
State of CryptoA Thesis for Crypto in AfricaIn this episode of the state of crypto brainstorm, the Amun team (Hany Rashwan, Hansen Wang, and Lanre Ige) came together to discuss the impact crypto and blockchain technology could have across the continent of Africa. The external guest this week was Yele Bademosi — Director and Ambassador of Africa at Binance Labs. It is important to note that it is impossible to develop a coherent thesis for the whole of Africa — the world's most diverse and multi-faceted continent — so instead this episode will mostly focus on Nigeria, where both Yele and Lanre are from.One narrative which has bee...
2019-12-1145 min
Binance PodcastBlockchain Continent is Happening in AfricaBorn in Nigeria and educated in the UK, Binance Labs Director Yele Bademosi moved back to Africa to start his entrepreneurship journey. In this episode, Yele shares his unique experiences and perspectives — the African startup and investment landscape, and more importantly, blockchain adoption in the developing continent.
2019-08-1338 min
The Global Startup Movement - Startup Ecosystem Leaders, Global Entrepreneurship, and Emerging Market InnovationBlockchain for Africa with Yele BademosiYele Bademosi is a Director at Binance Labs a fund and initiative to incubate, invest and empower top blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, projects, and communities. Yele is Focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Africa, as well as sourcing/investing in blockchain projects and leading the Africa chapter of Binance Labs Incubation Program. Previously he was the Founder at Microtraction, a micro-vc firm funding Africa’s most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stages of their venture and helping them build enduring companies.
On this episode you'll learn:
-What are the most immediate applications of blockchain and cryptocurrency in Afric...
2019-01-2900 min