List of founders from Africa
Name | Description | Birthdate | Birthplace | ||
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Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur known for creating high-tech, science fiction-inspired ventures. He is a founder of PayPal, an early-stage investor and CEO of Tesla, Inc., and founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX. | June 28, 1971 | ||||
Andre Cronje is a decentralized finance (DeFi) architect and the creator of Yearn Finance and Keep3rV1. | |||||
South african businessman, Cofounder and CEO of civic.com | February 7, 1979 | ||||
Kimbal Musk is an entrepreneur, restaurateur, investor, and environmentalist. He is the founder of several companies, including Square Roots, Big Green, and The Kitchen Restaurant Group. | September 20, 1972 | ||||
Co-founder of Inductiv and Tamr and Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo | May 13, 1973 | ||||
navigator & explorer, creator of Momoguro Metaverse, born in Algeria | 1742 | ||||
Nigerian billionaire entrepreneur | April 10, 1957 | ||||
Fashion designer | September 30, 1980 | ||||
Patrick Drahi is the owner of Sotheby's and founder and controlling shareholder of Altice, a Europe-based telecom group. | August 20, 1963 | ||||
German politician and a leading member of Nazi party. | April 26, 1894 | ||||
President of south africa, anti-apartheid activist | July 18, 1918 | ||||
Charlie Lee is a computer scientist and the creator of Litecoin. | January 1, 1950 | ||||
Nigerian entrepreneur and development speaker | March 3, 1987 | ||||
French footballer | June 23, 1976 | ||||
Gamal Abdel Nasser was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. N | January 15, 1918 | ||||
Amr Awadallah is a cofounder of Cloudera and Vectara. | October 1, 1970 | ||||
Hicham Oudghiri is an American entrepreneur and technology executive. Oudghiri is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Enigma, a data and technology company based in New York City's Silicon Alley. | |||||
Christopher Ategeka (born July 10, 1984) is a serial entrepreneur, an engineer, a futurist, and one of the leading figures in the Unintended Consequences of technology movement. | July 10, 1984 | ||||
Founder of KJK.COM.NG | August 1, 1990 | ||||
Founder and Owner of BzCapitalConsulting | Entrepreneur | January 20, 2003 | ||||
Nigerian businessman who founded zenith bank in 1990 | November 4, 1951 | ||||
Mit mathematician, computer scientist, and educator | February 29, 1928 | ||||
South african actor, film director and singer | June 25, 1942 | ||||
Khuraira Musa is a Nigerian American based international make-up artist, cosmetologist and philanthropist, the founder and CEO of Khuraira Cosmetics. | |||||
British venture capitalist | October 23, 1970 |
