Tunde Kehinde
Biography
Tunde, CEO of Lidya, has a long history of founding, leading, and growing successful businesses in emerging markets.
Tunde Kehinde is a seasoned emerging markets entrepreneur, the co-founder of Jumia Nigeria, Africa’s first unicorn (publicly listed on the NYSE) and Africa Courier Express. Tunde Kehinde most recently co-founded Lidya: a digital fintech lender which allows leading business owners, building high impact businesses in fast growing economies, to unlock one-click, same day credit and build a credit rating for the first time.
Tunde Kehinde has been called ‘The Jeff Bezos of Africa’ by the BBC and C2 Montreal. He speaks passionately about what needs to be done to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and create wealth, in turn supporting economic diversification and influencing job creation. Tunde has prior experience as a business development executive with Diageo in London and as an Investment
About Lydia
Lidya has one of Africa’s largest, deepest and most comprehensive databases of SME data. With systems that have in aggregate digitized and analyzed over $50 Billion USD worth of data over the last 5 years. Lidya has registered over 220,000 businesses, disbursed ~32,500 loans and is approaching US $100m in disbursement value across its key markets, Nigeria, Czech Republic and Poland. Lidya provides the best outcomes for its customers by eliminating complexity and providing simple and intuitive finance.
Lidya expanding into Eastern Europe in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic and even rarer, is an example of a company which started in Africa expanding into Europe with its world-class tech solution to a global problem. Lidya has raised close to US $16.5 million and is backed by blue-chip international investors including Omidyar Network, Accion, Bamboo Capital, Newid, Alitheia and Goodwell Investments.
Learn more about Lydia at https://www.lidya.info