Idris Bello

Idris “Afropreneur” Bello is a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, an Africa focused venture fund with a stellar pre-seed and seed portfolio including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, Trella, Chefaa, Early in his career, he worked with Chevron, ExxonMobil, the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative. A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA from Rice University and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambean Fellow, , MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader. He spends most of his time between Houston, Lagos, Cairo, and airport lounges.