Maya Horgan Famodu

Maya Horgan Famodu is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, founder, and partner at Ingressive, a firm that provides market entry, technology research, and market operations services for firms and businesses expanding into Africa. She also founded Ingressive Capital, a venture capital (VC) fund investing in Africa-based technology companies. Ingressive Capital, which has seeded some of Africa’s fastest-growing businesses, including Paystack, Mono and Carry1st, has a portfolio that is 40% female-founded.

Famodu launched the first woman-owned tech fund in Nigeria, and she was the youngest person to launch a VC in Sub-Saharan Africa. She worked previously in private equity research and at JPMorgan after completing Cornell Prelaw Program and attending Pomona College. She is a two-time Forbes 30 under 30 awardee (Africa ‘18 and VC ‘20), United Nation’s Most Influential Person of African Descent, Kauffman Fellow, and and UN MIPAD. She has been featured in GQ, Forbes, Quartz, CNBC, TechCrunch, Financial Times, TechCabal and The Economist, among others.

Famodu and her team are constructing a pipeline from student aspiration to tech industry success. Towards that end, she co-founded Ingressive for Good, a nonprofit nurturing African tech talent, and Ingressive Advisory, aiding 50+ international firms in African market entry with over 60 deals.