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TOPE AWOTONA, is the founder of Calendly. for those of you who use Calendly for scheduling meetings. Calendly is Located in Atlanta. As of January 2021, this most recent funding round put the Calendly valuation at an impressive $3 billion.

Sam Udotong

Sam is a cofounder and fireflies is worth $14million techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/fir…

fireflies.ai is used to make voice transcription.

Location : San Francisco, California #SecureTheTribe

Makinde Adeagbo, founder of /dev/color, a non-profit organization that aims to advance the careers of Black software engineers. Alongside his role as founder a senior engineer at Pinterest worked in Silicon Valley, working at Apple, Microsoft, Facebook Dropbox
#SecureTheTribe

Omolabake Adenle
Nigerian-American investment strategist & engineer has won the DEI In Voice award from Women in Voice(WiV) — an international non-profit based in Seattle, United States of America for outstanding contributions to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion in voice.

Adenle holds a PhD in Bayesian Signal Processing from Cambridge University and previously built SpeakYoruba, a defunct app that helped children learn how to speak the Yoruba language.

Checkout her website ajala.ai

Asmau Ahmed, Founder & CEO of Plum Perfect, began as a chemical engineer with a curiosity to innovate. holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS with Honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. #SecureTheTribe

Women, especially black ones, have been historically underrepresented in the workplace, and the techn space is no different.Asmau is one of only 12 black women to have raised more than $1million in VC funding.

Jessica O. Matthews

As a child visiting Nigeria, Jessica Matthews experienced a power outage while at a relative’s wedding.
Her invention, Soccket, is a soccer ball that generates energy when in play for use as a portable power source.