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Ms. Ajuma Ataguba, FIMC,CMC

Ajuma Ataguba is a global startup ecosystem leader and angel investor.

An experienced business development and management consultant with over three decades of experience in technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, impact investment and international trade.

She is currently the Managing Director of the Founder Institute (Abuja), the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Adeo Ressi and Jonathan Greechan,and since 2020 she has led the operations team in Abuja, Nigeria to launch 70+ SAAS technology startups with a mentor network of over 200 CEO mentors.

She is also a venture partner at White Hibiscus Capital, a Delaware early stage VC firm that invests in Pre-Seed Commerce enabling Technologies Fund with focus on working with talented founders in West Africa

As Principal Consultant at The Learning Gate ,she has led teams in the design and delivery of high impact programs / projects for governments, international development