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Akin Sawyerr
COO at Turnqey Labs
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Overview
Akin Sawyerr is the COO at Turnqey Labs, where he has successfully co-founded the company and oversees operations. With a background in venture capital and emerging markets, he has made strategic investments in various startups, including Streams at the pre-seed stage, showcasing his expertise in the field.
Work Experience
Strategy & Revenue
2025 - Current
Executive Advisor
2020 - 2025
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.
Managing Director
2010
Feleman is a pre-seed investor in fintech and crypto companies focused on emerging markets building
Black Venture Institute Fellow
2022
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
DeFiSafety (DeFiSafety.com) is the leading technical risk analysis company in the Decentralized Finance space
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.
Investor
2022
Turnqey is an API developer platform providing real-time data aggregation for performance reporting on Cryptoassets.
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.
Member Board Of Directors (Executive Committee)
2015 - 2020
DEN fosters entrepreneurship and innovation by providing support and expertise to start-up and early stage companies, through a series of seminars, coaching events, and financing competitions.
Education
MBA
2001 - 2003
BA
1994 - 1998
Senior Secondary Certificate
1989 - 1994