Akin Sawyerr
COO at Turnqey Labs
Akin Sawyerr
COO at Turnqey Labs
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer
2022 - Current
Turnqey is an API developer platform providing real-time data aggregation for performance reporting on Cryptoassets.
Managing Director
2011
Feleman is a pre-seed investor in fintech and crypto companies focused on emerging markets building
Black Venture Institute Fellow
2022
Advisor
2020
EMTECH is a fintech firm Building a Modern Financial Infrastructure with Blockchain, Digital Currency, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. EMTECH works with Central Banks in Underbanked, Developing and Emerging Markets to address Financial Inclusion and Resilience in Financial Market Infrastructures.
EMTECH is a fintech company that modernizes central banks for financial inclusion and resilience.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from Accenture Ventures.
Investor
2021
DeFiSafety (DeFiSafety.com) is the leading technical risk analysis company in the Decentralized Finance space
Investor
2022
Octav focuses on providing you with cost-basis and P&L in order to help you make better decisions. More than just a dashboard, Octav integrates and interacts with many protocols to enhance & facilitate all your crypto activities.
Investor
2021
Umoja is an emerging market crypto-to-fiat on & off-ramp seeking to connect 1.35 billion mobile money users who transact over $1 trillion in value to the $250B+ DeFi marketplace
Investor
2022
Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. (A Network State)
Raised $2,100,000.00 from Adaverse.
Chief Innovation Officer at Onramp
2021 - 2022
Onramp is a comprehensive cryptoasset management solution allowing financial advisors to help their clients safely, confidently, and intelligently invest in the new age.
Business Development Lead
2020 - 2021
Tokenized risk protocol
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Andrew Keys, Kain Warwick, Platinum Capital, Centrality, Blockchain Companies LLC, ParaFi Capital, Fourth Revolution Capital, Continue Capital and Stani Kulechov.
Education
MBA
2001 - 2003
BA
1994 - 1998
Senior Secondary Certificate
1989 - 1994