ODBA & Co. Ventures

ODBA & Co. Ventures

ODBA & Co. Ventures was co-founded by Gbite Oduneye and Benjamin Boateng with a thesis that capital should follow conviction in the founder, not just the market. The firm is domiciled in Mauritius and runs a portfolio built exclusively around early-stage African technology companies. The portfolio reveals a multi-sector, multi-geography approach. Confirmed positions include Kuda, the Nigerian digital bank; Treepz, an East African bus-hailing platform that expanded to Ghana and Uganda; Hurone AI, which applies machine learning to cancer care; Awabah, a Nigerian digital pension platform; and Fleri, a cross-border insurance product for migrants. The common thread is underwriting founder-market fit in digitally leapfrogging economies. Geographic coverage stretches across West and East Africa, with portfolio companies active in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, among others. Stage coverage is concentrated at pre-seed and seed, with rare follow-ons into Series A. Team size is not publicly disclosed. ODBA describes its added value as mentorship and network access rather than operational intervention. ODBA’s structural differentiator is geographic form over thematic function. Registered in Mauritius but deploying into multiple African jurisdictions without a single-country anchor, it functions more like a distributed scout network than a regional fund. This structure lets it participate in rounds across fragmented ecosystems where local fund formation remains thin, offering institutional co-investors a single point of access into early-stage African venture rounds they would otherwise miss.