BELLANAIJA FOUNDER & 2 OTHER NIGERIAN INTERNET ENTREPRENEURS
NAMED FORBES 30 MOST PROMISING YOUNG AFRICA ENTREPRENEURS TO WATCH IN 2014.
By
Olusheye Caston-Dada
Their names are,
Uche Pedro, founder, BellaNaija, Bankole Cardoso, CEO, Easy Taxi Nigeria and
Tunde Kehinde, co-founder, Jumia Nigeria.
The 3 young
internet entrepreneurs were named alongside 27 others as ’30 most promising
young entrepreneurs in Africa 2014’ by Forbes magazine.
In the list that
was released on Wednesday, 19 February, Forbes referred to these young
entrepreneurs as builders, innovators and risk takers who are fervent in their
resolve to transform the African continent.
“They are impatient
to explore new possibilities and slowly but surely, they are building empires.
They may be today’s upstarts, but they are tomorrow’s legends,” Forbes said.
Uche Pedro, aged 30 is the Nigerian media entrepreneur that founded BainstoneLimited,
a thriving new media company that develops online media content for African
(primarily Nigerian) audiences.
Bainstone’s
flagship media property, Bellanaija.com is Nigeria’s premier lifestyle,
entertainment and fashion website, and garners an average of 10million page
views every month.
Bankole Cardoso,
25, is the founder of the Nigerian Operations of EasyTaxi, a taxi mobile App
that was founded in Brazil in 2012 by German technology startup incubator,
rocket internet GmGH.
He worked for
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Carlyle group in New York, before setting up
Easy-Taxi in Nigeria Cardoso Easy-taxi mobile application serves a platform
that connects cab drivers and would-be passengers. Through the App, passengers
can confirm their pickup point and then order a cab at the click of a button. Easy-Taxi
sends the passenger a confirmation of the name and phone number of your driver
and the vehicle in real-time.
Lastly, Tunde Kehinde,
the 30 year old Harvard MBA grad recently stepped down as co-founder of Jumia
Nigeria, the country’s largest online retailer.
Kehinde founded Kasuwa,
a Nigerian online retailer in 2012. Forbes noted that within days of its
founding, Kasuwa received seed funding from German online startup incubator and
the company’s name was changed to Jumia. Kehinde resigned in January to start a
logistics company.
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