Eloho Omame
Eloho Omame is an Africa-focused technology investor. She’s a Partner at TLcom Capital, an early-stage VC firm with over $200m in capital under management and co-founder of FirstCheck Africa, one of a few female-focused pre-seed funds on the continent. She has invested in technology companies across Africa’s “big 4” VC markets — Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa — and sits on the boards of several high-growth companies.
A member of Nigeria’s National Council for Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship, established under the country’s pioneering Startup Act in 2022, Eloho began her investing career as a Vice President at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. She was Endeavor’s first Managing Director in Nigeria and worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse in London. She holds an MBA from the London Business School and a BSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political
Eloho Omame is an Africa-focused technology venture capital investor. A Partner at TLcom Capital, a seed-to-early growth stage firm, and co-Founder and General Partner at FirstCheck Africa, a female-focused pre-seed firm.
TLcom Capital invests in Africa's best entrepreneurs tackling the continent's biggest challenges. Across two funds, with capital under management of approximately $250 million, the firm’s investment portfolio includes high-growth companies across multiple sectors in Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt. Eloho represents TLcom Capital on the boards of several portfolio companies.
In 2021, she co-founded FirstCheck Africa, one of only a few female-led and female-focused technology venture capital firms operating on the continent. FirstCheck Africa’s investment portfolio includes early-stage startups with category-defining potential in Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa. Through FirstCheck Africa, she is committed to helping Africa's exceptional female entrepreneurial talent build great companies.
Eloho has helped shape Nigeria and Africa's technology ecosystem for many years. From 2018 to 2021, she worked at Endeavor, the world’s largest support organisation for high-growth companies at the scale-up stage. She was the inaugural Managing Director & CEO of Endeavor in Nigeria, creating the most sought-after community for technology entrepreneurs in West Africa.
In 2017, on behalf of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), under the auspices of one of Africa's largest sub-national governments, she delivered "Lagos Innovates", a first-of-its-kind portfolio of support programs for early-stage innovation-driven enterprises (IDEs) in Africa, that she conceptualised, designed and implemented. Lagos Innovates has supported hundreds of entrepreneurs and created thousands of jobs.
Eloho is an inaugural member of Nigeria’s National Council for Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship, established under the provisions of the Nigeria Startup Act (2022) and chaired by His Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), where she represents the interests of the technology and innovation ecosystem. She’s a member of the Steering Committee of the Digital Economy Policy Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). In 2018, Eloho served as a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on Technology & Creativity, chaired by His Excellency the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (GCON).
Deeply committed to Africa’s technology and venture capital ecosystem, Her views have been featured numerous times in regional and global publications with respect to the African technology and venture capital ecosystem, including TechCrunch, the Financial Times, the Economist, Quartz Africa and Tech Cabal.
Eloho began her investing career in the U.K. as a Vice President at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. Before that, she was Head of Corporate Development at First Bank of Nigeria, leading the bank’s first cross-border M&A and executing inorganic growth projects across multiple financial services verticals. She started her professional career as an investment banker, supporting corporate finance and M&A advisory mandates at Credit Suisse and Renaissance Capital in the TMT and FMCG sectors in Europe and Nigeria.
She holds an MBA from the London Business School and a BSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.