Tolu Adetuyi
Innovator · Venture Architect
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Prembly. Building trust infrastructure that helps businesses combat fraud and stay compliant across emerging markets.
I've spent the better part of a decade building the identity, compliance, and financial infrastructure layer of Africa's economic participation stack. Before Prembly, I led growth at Moniepoint, where I helped build the distribution network that now powers billions of transactions across the continent. What that experience taught me is this: code is never the bottleneck. The real constraint is always the absence of foundational trust and distribution rails. Prembly exists because that infrastructure did not.
I hold a first-class degree in Computer Science and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Morgan State University. I am an active participant at the intersection of technology, capital, and African economic development. I am not done.
Current Work
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Lagos Tech Fest 2023 — Identity verification, compliance, and reducing fraud for African startups.
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Beyond my work at Prembly, I am quietly building a capital formation vehicle for founders and allocators who understand that Africa's digital economy cannot outrun its infrastructure deficit. This is not a distraction. It is the next logical layer.
Active Investment Thesis
Powering Nigeria: Infrastructure Fund 1
Over the past decade, I built and scaled Africa's digital trust infrastructure. Now, I am targeting the physical foundation. The Nigerian energy deficit is not a technical problem; it is a 100 billion dollar capital allocation opportunity.
Infrastructure Fund 1 is structured to completely bypass the legacy grid. By deploying private capital into highly efficient commercial power assets with proven demand, we generate resilient, asset backed yield while solving a generational bottleneck. For fellow founders and capital allocators ready to build, I invite you to review the core thesis.
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