Idris Ayodeji Bello
Partner & Co-Founder · LoftyInc Capital Management
Last updated 30 September 2026
Early-stage venture capitalEcosystem buildingImpact investingSocial enterprise
Idris Ayodeji Bello ("the Afropreneur") is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, a Nigerian innovation platform that has accelerated dozens of social-impact technology startups. He is also Founding Partner at LoftyInc Capital Management, managers of the Afropreneurs Fund (I & II). A multi-degreed technologist-turned-investor (Oxford Weidenfeld Scholar, Rice MBA, UH MSc Data Mining), he spent a decade at Chevron and ExxonMobil before moving fully into African venture and ecosystem building.
Stage focus
Pre-seedSeedAngelSeries A
Sector focus
FintechEnterprise softwareFinancial servicesHealthtechEdtechAgritech