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Tolu Adetuyi is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Prembly, which helps businesses verify customers, prevent fraud and meet compliance rules, working across Nigeria, Kenya and the United States.

Tolu Adetuyi is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Prembly (YC W22), which builds identity verification, fraud prevention and compliance infrastructure used by more than a thousand businesses. Before Prembly, Tolu helped build the product at Moniepoint and led its growth. He writes and advises on identity, fraud, distribution and capital in Africa, and invests in founders across the continent.

Tolu Adetuyi is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Prembly, which helps businesses verify customers, prevent fraud and meet compliance rules. Prembly works across Nigeria, Kenya and the United States, was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and is relied on by more than a thousand local and global businesses.

Before Prembly, Tolu helped build the product at Moniepoint and led growth to build the distribution network that puts banking and payment terminals in the hands of merchants across Nigeria. He began as a software engineer at Edves, then joined the early team at Accounteer, first as a software engineer and later in product management.

Tolu holds an MBA in Finance from Morgan State University and a BSc in Computer Science from Adekunle Ajasin University. He is a Forbes Technology Council member (2024), an On Deck Founder Fellow, and a mentor in Nigeria's Student Venture Capital Grant. He writes at adetuyi.com, curates Chronicles of Innovation and ZeroToAct, and invests in and supports other founders through BuildX Capital, which is also forming an energy fund.