# Oluwatobiloba Ololade

> Oluwatobiloba “Tobi” Ololade is a Nigerian software engineer and the co-founder and CEO of Dojah. Based in Lagos, he previously led technology at TradeBuza and engineering at Moneymie. With co-founder Ayomide Oso, he built Dojah around the difficulty of accessing identity data across African markets; the company joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 batch and later expanded into fraud detection and continuous risk monitoring.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Dojah
- **Organizations:** Dojah, Elta Solutions, Kedesa, TradeBuza, Moneymie
- **Nationality:** Nigerian
- **Education:** B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Dojah, a Y Combinator Winter 2022 company., Led Dojah during its reported fivefold increase in API calls and threefold customer growth in 2022., Dojah was selected for Visa’s first Africa Fintech Accelerator cohort in 2023.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Began as Lead Developer at Elta Solutions.
- **2015** — Became a Director at Kedesa.
- **2017–2021** — Head of Technology at TradeBuza.
- **2019–2021** — Engineering Lead at Moneymie.
- **2021** — Co-founded Dojah with Ayomide Oso.
- **2022** — Dojah joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 batch.
- **2023** — Dojah launched EasyDetect in May and joined Visa’s Africa Fintech Accelerator.
- **2024–2025** — Dojah’s anniversary timeline places the introduction of Profiled Risk in this period.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Dojah, a Y Combinator Winter 2022 company.
- Led Dojah during its reported fivefold increase in API calls and threefold customer growth in 2022.
- Dojah was selected for Visa’s first Africa Fintech Accelerator cohort in 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — We Are Tech published a profile documenting his role as Dojah co-founder and CEO and his earlier engineering career.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ololaday/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ololaday

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Last updated: 2026-10-12