Nneka Eze

Nneka Eze is a Managing Partner at VestedWorld, a venture capital firm investing in essential products and services for Africans across agribusiness, consumer goods and enabling technologies, backing African companies and entrepreneurs overlooked by traditional venture capital. VestedWorld aims for its portfolio companies to create and sustain 5,000 high quality jobs by 2030. 

Nneka has deep experience and knowledge of mass market African consumers in rural and urban areas based on 17 years of living and working in and across Africa. She believes deeply in the firm’s north star — that Africa can become the next East Asia. Prior to VestedWorld, Nneka worked to deepen investment in African businesses and entrepreneurs for over a decade having served as a Partner, founder of the Nigerian office, and co-lead of the Global Agriculture & Food Security Practice at Dalberg. She was previously a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Nneka serves on the boards of the Impact Investors’ Foundation of Nigeria, Nigeria's GSG National Partner (the National Advisory Board for Impact Investing), and AMP Health. 

Nneka’s frame of reference has been based on Black feminism, and her understanding of race and class struggles in America as an underrepresented minority. Applying this perspective to an African context helps her to understand how class dynamics work, how biases affect capital allocations, and how important it is for Black people to access the basics and the opportunities. Nneka holds a bachelor’s degree in economics cum laude from Harvard and speaks intermediate French. She is a Kauffman Fellow. Nneka has worked across Africa, and in Asia, Latin America, and North America having lived in Kenya, Senegal, and Nigeria. She moved to Kenya in 2009 and has spent the majority of her professional career in Africa.