Kola Aina

Kola Aina has built Ventures Platform into one of the most important early-stage investors in African technology. His portfolio includes companies such as Moniepoint, PiggyVest, LemFi, and Norebase — businesses collectively attacking payments, savings, remittances, commerce and cross-border infrastructure. That makes Aina's investment record unusually aligned with the architecture of a more connected African economy. He belongs on the Borderless 100 because venture capital is itself infrastructure: the founders building new financial rails need patient early capital before banks, institutions or public markets are willing to bet on them. Aina has repeatedly supplied that capital at precisely the stage when it matters most.