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Edward Popoola

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Founder/CTO at Cowrywise

Lagos State, Nigeria

FoundedCowrywise · YC

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Edward Popoola is the CTO and co-founder of Cowrywise, a company that participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2018 cohort. His background is in solution architecture, with experience spanning software architecture, IT infrastructure design and delivery, cloud platforms, and mobile value added services. He has worked on projects in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Mozambique.

Founder/CTO at CowrywiseYC S18

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Cowrywise's investors · 7

K50 VenturesEncinitas · $50K – $250K checks · since 2021MicrotractionLagos · $100K checks · since 2021Quona CapitalWashington · $5M checks · since 2021SHL CapitalSeattle · $100K – $250K checks · since 2021Venture Investment AssociatesPeapack · since 2021VentureSouqAbu Dhabi · $250K – $50M checks · since 2021Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2018

Co-founders at Cowrywise

RARazaq Ahmed
Razaq AhmedFounder/CEO

Experience

  1. CowrywiseCTO/Co-foundercurrent2017 — presentLagos, Nigeria
  2. African Advantage Telecoms West Africa LimitedTechnical Director2015 — 2017Lagos, Nigeria
  3. African Advantage Telecoms West Africa LimitedTeam Lead Infrastructure Support & Integration2013 — 2015Lagos, Nigeria
  4. African Advantage Telecoms West Africa LimitedIntegration Specialist/Support Engineer2011 — 2013Lagos, Nigeria
  5. Interswitch GroupInfrastructure Analyst2010 — 2011Lagos, Nigeria
  6. NixarusTechnical Consultant2009 — 2010Lagos, Nigeria
  7. Qrios NetworksTechnical Consultant2008 — 2009Lagos Nigeria

Skills & more

PythonMySQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)VMware InfrastructureTechnical Solution DesignIT Infrastructure ManagementRed Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)USSDSS7NegotiationBusiness Model DevelopmentTelecommunications
+4 moreSoftware DevelopmentNetwork Packet Analysis (Wireshark)Unix AdministrationApplication Programming Interfaces

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Who is Edward Popoola?
Edward Popoola is the CTO and co-founder of Cowrywise, a company that participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2018 cohort. His background is in solution architecture, with experience spanning software architecture, IT infrastructure design and delivery, cloud platforms, and mobile value added services. He has worked on projects in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Mozambique.
Where does Edward Popoola work?
Edward Popoola is Founder/CTO of Cowrywise.
What companies did Edward Popoola found?
Edward Popoola founded Cowrywise.
Where did Edward Popoola go to school?
Edward Popoola studied at Harvard Business School Executive Education (Owner/President Management (OPM) Program | OPM 69); Y Combinator; Stanford University (Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate - Stanford Center for Professional Development).

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