Mope Abudu is the Managing Partner of AfriGloCal Venture Capital, a VC firm positioned to back PreSeed/Seed staged African focused FinTech and Digital Infrastructure/Technology enabled start-ups that combine Wealth Creation and GloCal visioning solutions driving impact and scalability within the Nigerian/West African

environments. AfriGloCal VC leverages deal flow from our Knight Ventures Accelerator and investor platform which she founded and also applies a gender balance lens investment focus.

She brings over 30 years valuable business management, transformation and investment experience gained in a variety of industries defining business models of start-ups and growth trajectories of scale-ups through expertise in

data intelligence, product/market entry fit, African market expansion, technology infrastructure leverage, process methodologies, governance and investment worthiness. She is a huge supporter of women entrepreneurs either owned or led business and actively encourages the think bigger mindset of Indigenous Growing Businesses (GBs)

across Africa to position for GloCal opportunities leveraging her business working experience and network gained from the US, UK and Nigeria.

Her business skills and practical experience have been nurtured from her various management and executive positions in organizations such as Natwest Cards UK, HSBC Rail, UK, The Financial Services Authority UK, HEIRS Alliance Nigeria and Nextzon Business Services. Beyond her professional experience, Mope is also a serial

entrepreneur with established business in the Agriculture, Entertainment and Property Development spaces. She also co-founded an Indigenous Family Entertainment Center called (Maxtivity).

Mope has a BSc in Sociology from the University of Lagos – Nigeria and is a Chartered Management Accountant ACMA, CGMA – member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) London. She holds a certificate in Data Analysis, as well a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer programming – Summa Cum laude Honour Student. She is a Fellow, Board member and Current President of the Association of Outsourcing Professionals of Nigeria (AOPN), Board member Cruxstone Property Development and Investment Ltd, Sproxil Nigeria and a number of other innovative growth businesses.