27-Year Old Deborah Ojengbede Raises $1 Million for Crypto-Based Tech Startup
Deborah Ojengbede, Chief Executive Officer of the crypto-based startup AFEN Group, and a former banker have raised the sum of $1 million for her technology startup, through the NFT initiative token sales round. Deborah is in charge of the Non Fungible Tokens – NFT initiative.
AFEN is a leading platform for African Blockchain-related collaborations with a focus on decentralized finance, arts, real estate and education. It is the first government-backed NFT initiative. The startup held one of the quickest public sales in the cryptocurrency space on the 20th of April 2021, raising over a million dollars in her token’s sales round.
Deborah’s successful fundraising is considered one of the quickest public sales in the cryptocurrency space. She now joins the list of women revolutionizing the African Femtech space.
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The startup founder has had an impressive 5-year career as a Business Analyst in one of Nigeria’s top banks. Shortly after leaving the banking sector, she started building her cryptocurrency ambition by founding AFEN, the foremost platform for the digitization of African arts, real estate and education.
The startup AFEN, “intends to use Blockchain technologies, specifically the Binance smart chain network, to provide a solution to the problem limiting the industrial African trio,” says Deborah Ojengbede. It has the objective of combining Blockchain’s immutable data structure and the backing of government bodies to provide legitimacy to products.
The Nigerian-based tech startup is set on a path to expose more people to crypto and support careers in Blockchain technology through enrolling newbies and startups to take up training in any area of interest. The startup also intends to revolutionize the real estate industry by authenticating homeownership and making peer-to-peer property sale possible on the Blockchain.
AFEN Group plans to launch a product beta testing in May 2021 and roll out its first batches of NFT sales in the same month.
AFEN offers an opportunity to get acquainted with the new crypto revolution on its website – www.afenfroup.com. With AFEN, Deborah is building the future for Africa.
Congratulations Deborah Ojengbede on achieving a groundbreaking feat. We are rooting for you.