Chrysalis Crew – The Chrysalis Capital

Glory Adeogun

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:49:59 +0000

Glory Adeogun is a Finance and Investment Analyst at The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund, and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial, investment, and strategy firm. She is an Economics graduate from the University of Ibadan with ongoing studies for the ACCA qualification. With a fervent dedication to problem-solving, Glory is driven by a deep-seated passion for aiding businesses, nations, and various systems in overcoming challenges and achieving sustainable solutions.

Favorite Quote – “What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.” – Spencer Johnson

Nosakhare Egbe-Abe

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:48:15 +0000

Nosakhare is an Investment Analyst at The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund, and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial, investment, and strategy firm. He is graduate of Economics from the University of Ibadane. Prior to his current role, he worked with Nigeria’s premier ratings agency, where he was part of the funds rating team and contributed in macroeconomic and country specific research. He is an aspiring Chartered financial analyst and is interested in helping businesses solve complex issues. He is interested in history, economics, and football.

Favorite Quote – Life is all about the evolution

Dare Onamakinde

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:46:55 +0000

Dare Onamakinde is a finance and investment analyst at The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund, and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial, investment, and strategy firm. Dare is a dynamic professional with a versatile background that spans across several industries and this has allowed him uncover hidden opportunities that has been instrumental in helping emerging businesses and startup thrive.

Favorite Quote – “We are born not all at once but by bits- Mary Antin”

Grace Adebisi

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:44:56 +0000

Grace Adebisi is a finance and investment analyst at The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund, and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial, investment, and strategy firm. She is a chartered accountant and a graduate of Accounting from Babcock University. Grace is passionate about fostering growth and innovation and her focus extends beyond numbers. She is committed to making an impact and ensuring African startups grow and scale on the continent and beyond.

Favorite Quote – “Do one thing every day that scares you.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

Qodri Hassan

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:34:11 +0000

Qodri Hassan is a finance and investment analyst at The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund, and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial, investment, and strategy firm. He is an Economist and ACCA certified accountant in training. Qodri is passionate about the Technology and Finance industry, and is committed to ensuring African startups get access to funding required to scale on the continent and beyond.

Angel Nwaneri

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:32:54 +0000

Personal Quote – “Your Heart is Your Guide”

Chiamaka Obialeri

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:13:06 +0000

Chiamaka Obialeri is the Operations Associate at The Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund, and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial, investment, and strategy firm. She is a seasoned project manager with experience in administrative management and with a get-it-done, on-time, high-quality product spirit and passionate about developing intelligent action plans that will accelerate project completion and result delivery. Skilled in operational design, entity shared services coordination, project planning/management, process improvement, and software quality assurance.

Personal Quote:

“A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

Problem I want to solve:

Customer service orientation in Africa

Nichole Yembra

TheChrysalisCapita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:55:33 +0000

Nichole Yembra is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Chrysalis Company which houses Chrysalis Capital, an investment management firm focused on early-stage tech companies in emerging markets. She served as the Chief Financial Officer at Venture Garden Group (VGG) and Managing Partner at GreenHouse Capital, the VGG investment arm until February 2019.

At VGG, she was responsible for investor relations and the financial strategy of the 7 technology companies under its umbrella as they served public and private clients across the aviation, power, education, financial services, and social investment sectors. At GreenHouse, she fostered the growth of their 14 portfolio companies at the forefront of using technology to solve real African problems. With Flutterwave, she had her first exit at 7.5x the initial investment.

She brings experience from working in private and Fortune 500 companies to identify, ideate, implement and invest in companies through seed and series stages building technology innovating around the bottom pillars of human needs: Food, Health, Utilities (water, air, shelter), Employment, and the money to pay for it all (Financial Inclusion). Nichole began her career at Ernst & Young LLP, Atlanta where she specialized in risk and process transformation across several sectors including oil and gas, consumer products, manufacturing, quick service restaurants, and financial services.

Nichole is a member of the Inaugural Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa Class and serves on the Council of 8 for the Shared Value Africa Initiative. She also serves as a mentor for Google Launchpad Africa and an Advisor to The Cortex Hub, a South African incubator. As a champion for women in leadership and technology, she founded the Garden Women’s Network which promotes the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the Nigerian tech ecosystem and GreenHouse Lab which is Nigeria’s first female founder-focused tech accelerator and the first and only “Powered by Google” accelerator in Africa. In 2017, she was named by Forbes Africa as one of the Most Promising Entrepreneurs under 30. In 2018, Most Influential People of African Descent under 40 (MIPAD 100), a global civil society initiative whose efforts are in recognition of the UN-backed International Decade for People of African Descent, named Nichole amongst its 2018 honorees for business and entrepreneurship inside Africa.

Nichole also serves with Big Brothers/Big Sisters and was the Program Director for College MAP, a program providing underserved youth with tools to access university. She is an alumna of the Kenan Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a graduate from the Masters in Accounting program at Wake Forest University, and a licensed CPA.