With a background in engineering, consulting and investing, V8 Capital Partners founding partner Tobi Oke has been investing in African startups since 2013. Having started out as a software engineer at Motorola, Oke then moved into management consulting with Booz Allen, before finally winding up in African VC with Intel Capital. “I started investing in African tech startups with Intel Capital with an Africa wide mandate in 2013,” Oke told Disrupt Africa. Our investments are usually disruptive but central to new ways of doing business,” Oke said. V8’s name comes from the popular V8 Engine, with Oke saying it speaks to the firm’s role as catalysts to African entrepreneurs.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 21, 2022 08:03 UTC