Warioba Ventures

Martin Warioba is Founder and Managing Partner at Warioba Ventures, Africa-focused investment and advisory firm that provides pre-seed and seed investment funding and builds sustainable ecosystem to support fintech and other technology-related startups focusing on tackling Africa’s great challenges. Martin oversees management and operations of Warioba Ventures.

He has over 20-year experience in Information Technology and payments, both as consultant, project manager and software developer. Martin is one of key Payments and Digital Financial Services (DFS) experts in Africa and he was instrumental in development of payment scheme rules for world’s first mobile wallet-to-mobile wallet interoperability between Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Tanzania as well as Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. He advices Central Banks, Commercial Banks, MNOs, FinTech, Startups, Public and Private Sector, NGOs on Corporate Strategy, Technology, Payments, DFS Interoperability, Policy & Regulations, and Digital Economy

Previously, Martin was a founder and Managing Partner at WS Technology Consulting, a successful business that operated across East Africa for 11 years. He also worked with Deloitte Consulting US LLP and Central Bank of Tanzania. Mr. Warioba has Computer Science degree with a minor in Mathematics from Louisiana State University as well as MBA and MSc in Information Management degrees from Arizona State University. Martin sits on the board of CRDB Bank PLC and its Audit committee as Independent, Non-Executive Director since January 2020. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Martin is committed in mentoring young African professionals in areas of technology, corporate governance, and leadership. Due to his well-rounded technology and management expertise, Mr. Warioba is a regular speaker in many conferences and events across Africa. In his spare time, Martin enjoys reading, traveling and sports especially golf, basketball, athletics, and soccer.