Erikan Obotetukudo
Founder of Audacity Assets
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Creator, Audacity Assets
2024 - Current
A holding company that builds innovations poised to redefine the next 100 years.
Managing Partner, Audacity Fund
2021
Our flagship innovation is Audacity Fund, a first-of-its-kind venture capital fund built on the blockchain. Audacity Fund uses blockchain technology to efficiently raise and deploy capital globally, plus operate as a crypto treasury. Our thesis is to leverage capital, culture, and community to seed audacious entrepreneurs building for emerging markets. Audacity Fund made history as the first tokenized venture capital fund founded by a Black woman.
President, Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment | CBEE
2020 - 2023
Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment (CBEE), is a global platform for black cryptocurrency leaders pioneering the future of money. We exchange best practices, secure strategic partnerships, invest in each other, and amplify our ventures across 15 countries & 6 continents.
Launcher & Rainmaker, Aku
2021 - 2021
Erikan broke records selling $1M in 1 minute of Aku, a digital art collection. This led to $53M in sales in 14 months.
Review Panel, NSF Directorate of Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
2025
National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.
Advisory Board
2020
The Henry Kravis Leadership Institute sponsors a sound education program of leadership studies at Claremont McKenna College.
Global Keynote Speaker
2015
Bookings: legacyvoicesagency@gmail.com 🇺🇸 USA Keynotes, TV, and Firesides: — Corporations: Airbnb, Coinbase, JP Morgan — Non-Profits: America Needs You, Claremont McKenna College, Sadie Collective — Summits / Conferences: Bloomberg, INBOUND — Firesides: Ariel Investments, Snapchat — Ads: IKEA — TV: Bloomberg, Cheddar 🌍 Global Keynotes, Live Shows, and Hosting: — Caribbean: Haiti Tech Summit — Africa: Afritech, She Leads Africa, Next Play — Europe: Webbdagarna Göteborg, AVAX, Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazz in the Park, — Asia: Singapore Africa Business Forum 📺 As Seen On: Bloomberg, Cheddar, Business Insider, Sports Illustrated, GQ, Blockworks, Decrypt, Readwrite, Cointelegraph
Investor
2021
Series A investment into YellowCard, a Pan-African crypto exchange.
Yellow Card facilitates buying and selling Stablecoins through local currency transactions.
Raised $89,500,000.00 from Hutt Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Blockchain Coinvestorsqq, Castle Island Ventures, Third Prime, Block, Inc., Winklevoss Capital and Polychain.
Investor
2021
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
2021
Investor
2021
Investor
2021
Series A investment in Roll, a social tokens API for creators, influencers, and brands