Brian Waswani Odhiambo

Venture Capital | Tutu Fellow

📍 Nigeria🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Board Member & Lead Investor
Oct 2025
Mo empowers Africans with quality, premium refurbished phones - available for every budget. The devices on our marketplaces are sourced and refurbished internationally and thoroughly inspected. We offer them in micropayment installment plans and each device comes with a twelve month warranty. Join our mission and make the smart choice’!
Board Member & Investor
Aug 2025
Delivering meals, groceries and medicine with ease!
Board Member & Investor
Nov 2021
TradeDepot enables manufacturers and key distributors keep their brands in stock on the shelves of millions of retail stores across Africa and other emerging markets. You bring the assets, We’ll bring the rest Deploy your choice of branded or unbranded vehicles (vans, tricycles, etc) into the TradeDepot fleet. We provide everything else: trained and fulfilment certified drivers, management and maintenance of the assets, daily trip management, and tons of ​new customers and sales. The TradeDepot Advantage Reach more stores, grow your business Every 3 minutes, a new retail store gets activated on the TradeDepot network. Get your products on the shelves of many more outlets and watch your business grow Available 24-7 to Retail Stores Through our​ B2B eCommerce Platform​, your products are available for retail stores to order 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No more stock-outs​ of your product at retail locations Its cost-effective and simple. Pay as you go—you are charged for monthly running costs of the assets and a margin for orders we fulfill. No extra charge for high volume bulk-deliveries to premium retailers on our "Subscribe and Save"​ plan
mid stageRetail
Board Member & Lead Investor
Jun 2021
Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial ecosystem, helping 10 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools since 2019. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of the country’s Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes $22 billion monthly for its customers while operating profitably. Moniepoint Inc. is a fully remote tech company with a diverse workforce worldwide and is headquartered in London, with offices in the US, Nairobi and Lagos. Join us as a #DreamMaker to help power the dreams of businesses globally.
Board Member & Lead Investor
Jul 2019
MAX is building Africas largest mobility-tech platform and providing commercial drivers with vehicle subscriptions for high-performance and low-emission vehicles, en route to empowering 100 million Africans by giving them tools to create wealth.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Were creating livelihoods and making this world more lively, one neighborhood at a time. Livelyhoods is a not-for-profit sales network that creates jobs for youth in Kenyan slums through the distribution of life-changing products. After interviewing 278 youth about how they survive, we learned they had to sell something before they could eat. LivelyHoods employs youth at what they are good at – sales. Our sales network leverages young peoples ambition and knowledge of their community, and requires minimal education. We prepare youth for a life of financial independence and personal success.
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2025
Board Member & Lead Investor
Oct 2025
Mo empowers Africans with quality, premium refurbished phones - available for every budget. The devices on our marketplaces are sourced and refurbished internationally and thoroughly inspected. We offer them in micropayment installment plans and each device comes with a twelve month warranty. Join our mission and make the smart choice’!
Board Member & Investor
Aug 2025
Delivering meals, groceries and medicine with ease!
2022
Partner
Oct 2022
Novastar Ventures is one of the first and largest VCs investing in Africa. Since 2014, Novastar has partnered with the bold entrepreneurs transforming markets and sectors and creating financial, social and environmental for people and planet - for good. Novastar’s work and team encompass both Novastar Ventures Limited and its investment advisors in Nairobi and Lagos.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Solar Sister envisions a brighter world powered by women. In sub-Saharan Africa, where over 600 million people have no access to electricity and over 700 million rely on harmful cooking fuels, it’s women who bear the huge burden of this energy poverty and who disproportionately shoulder the harmful effects of climate change. Solar Sister believes women are a key part of the solution to the clean energy challenge. This is why we invest in womens enterprises in off-grid communities. We combine the breakthrough potential of solar and clean cooking technology with a deliberately woman-centered direct sales network to bring light, hope and opportunity to even the most remote communities in rural Africa.
2021
Board Member & Investor
Nov 2021
TradeDepot enables manufacturers and key distributors keep their brands in stock on the shelves of millions of retail stores across Africa and other emerging markets. You bring the assets, We’ll bring the rest Deploy your choice of branded or unbranded vehicles (vans, tricycles, etc) into the TradeDepot fleet. We provide everything else: trained and fulfilment certified drivers, management and maintenance of the assets, daily trip management, and tons of ​new customers and sales. The TradeDepot Advantage Reach more stores, grow your business Every 3 minutes, a new retail store gets activated on the TradeDepot network. Get your products on the shelves of many more outlets and watch your business grow Available 24-7 to Retail Stores Through our​ B2B eCommerce Platform​, your products are available for retail stores to order 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No more stock-outs​ of your product at retail locations Its cost-effective and simple. Pay as you go—you are charged for monthly running costs of the assets and a margin for orders we fulfill. No extra charge for high volume bulk-deliveries to premium retailers on our "Subscribe and Save"​ plan
mid stageRetail
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2019–2025 · 8 investments
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