From Flutterwave to $18M in Loans Disbursed: How VeendHQ is Fixing Africa’s Credit Problem

In this powerful episode of Diary of an African Entrepreneur, we sit down with Femi, the founder of VeendHQ, a fintech startup transforming credit access across Africa.

Femi shares his raw and inspiring journey, from being a software engineer at Flutterwave and Carbon, to identifying the painful challenges of loan collections in Africa, and finally launching VeendHQ, a platform that has disbursed over $18 million in short-term credit to more than 300,000 Nigerians.

💡 Discover how VeendHQ evolved from a struggling SaaS model into a fast-scaling embedded credit infrastructure that solves Africa’s credit and collections problem at scale.

🎙️ Hosted by Deji Adebusoye, this conversation dives into:

Femi’s early days building tech for banks

The cultural challenges of running SaaS in Africa

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