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🌐 About the Event: The financial world has transformed due to fintech's rise, introducing innovative solutions that enhance financial inclusion. By bridging the divide between the unbanked and traditional services, fintech offers affordable, accessible avenues for underserved groups. This tech-driven expansion empowers individuals and businesses, propelling economic growth and revolutionizing the financial ecosystem.

​🎙 Meet the Speaker: Ayo Arikawe, Co-Founder & CTO, ThriveAgric LTD 🌱

​Driven by passion, Ayo is the force behind ThriveAgric LTD, an agri-tech beacon ensuring food security in Africa. Their prime weapon? The game-changing Agricultural Operating System (AOS).

​🔍 Quick Glimpse of ThriveAgric's Milestones:

​🤝 Unveiling over $150m in farmer financing.
​🌾 Partnering with 500,000+ smallholder farmers.
​🔄 Trading an impressive 800,000 metric tonnes of grains.
​🌍 Touching 2800 communities from Nigeria to Ghana.
​🎯 Eyeing an engagement with 10M farmers by 2027.
​🌟 Empowering 2,500+ direct employees and engaging 40,000+ African youths.
​Ayo's journey isn't just about numbers. He's a leader, a thinker, and an innovator. Ayo leads the market access thematic group of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG); a notable platform for public-private dialogue in Nigeria and he serves on the Advisory board of Ukhanyo Farmer Development (a non-profit organization that helps South African farmers unlock finance).

​He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Covenant University and is an alumnus of YCombinator, Google Launchpad, and World Food Programme Accelerator. Recently he emerged winner of the 2022 Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI) for Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In 2019, he also emerged Top 10 Jack Ma Foundation Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) and is a 2019 YTech 100 recipient from the Future Awards Africa.

​👋 See you there! Be part of the fintech revolution! 🚀

​Host: Chasing Polaris Fintech Product Creator/Entrepreneur Meetup

​We are a group of Fintech creators/emerging technology lovers/entrepreneurs

​Our group meets online or somewhere in Silicon Valley in person with a theme on every Month in South Bay Area. We have great speakers, events, passion and fun!!

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81898417607?pwd=3qslOYTaWOqIez2QmoipdYJZTXur4F.1

Meeting ID: 818 9841 7607
Passcode: 254774

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