Joshua Oduyemi

Joshua Oduyemi
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Born	Seun Joshua Oduyemi 1983-05-14 Nigeria
🏡 Residence	San Francisco
🏳️ Nationality	Nigerian-American
🏫 Education	Delta State University, UNESCO-IHE Institute of water education-The Netherland, University of Houston
💼 Occupation	Nigerian-American venture capitalist
🏢 Organisation	Sheatrust Capital, Multicent, BioFicher
Known for	Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists
Title	Founder, Chairman, Group CEO of Multicent and BioFicher Sciences
🌐 Website	https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-s-oduyemi/
🥚 Twitter	Twitter=Joshua_oduyemi

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Seun J. Oduyemi (born Seun Joshua Oduyemi May 14, 1983) is a Nigerian American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, co-founder of Sheatrust Capital and businessman who concentrated mainly on technology, real estate development, oilfield and life-sciences companies in the United States. He is the founder, group-CEO of Multicent, executive chairman of Landhoven Energy, executive chairman of Cernner Homes (Homes Builders), founder and chairman of BioFicher Sciences: a biotechnology, cloud-based health information technology and biopharmaceutical clinical research organization and president of Seun Oduyemi Foundation. He currently served as a general partner at Sheatrust Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley private equity and investment firm, that focused on investing and financing enterprises software, data, and technology-enabled startup businesses, with over $16 billion in assets under management (AUM).

At Sheatrust Capital, Seun plays a pivotal role in investing and financing early-stage to growth enterprises software, data, and technology-enabled startup companies. 

Early Life

Joshua was born in Lagos Mainland, Nigerian, and at the age of 7 he moved to Opebi Allen in Ikeja with his parents. He was raised in Ikeja and Ogba-Ijaiye area of Lagos state, a suburb of Ikeja town, and attended Government college Ikorodu, Jubril martin High school. Joshua earned a BSc in mechanical Engineering, from Delta State University in 2005 and later attended Delta State University for another program in industrial chemistry and petrochemical from Delta State University, Abraka. he received his master's degree in Coastal Engineering and Port Development from the UNESCO-IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.

Seun is known for his strong investment focus on mobile, enterprise software, Seed/early-stage startups and growth companies, including successful investments in Zoom, weebly before it was acquired by Square, Opendoor, Republic, Wework, Multicent, Chartboost, Landhoven energy and WhatsApp before acquire by Facebook In 2014, Oduyemi announced he was stepping back from his leadership duties as co-Ceo with Sheatrust Capital, but continues to invest and represent the firm on company boards and seat as an executive chairman

Career

Joshua began his career as a business analyst at platinum bank, Ikeja, Lagos State, FCMB, Guaranty trust bank, later work at Halliburton and Schlumberger. in port Harcourt and Schlumberger, Norway from 2008 through 2014.

In 2012 Joshua moved to the United States to became assistant vice president (AVP) drilling and head of corporate development, merger and acquisition for Schlumberger in Houston and Bismarck, North Dakota. He moved on to the position of Assistant vice-president, head of project, merger and acquisition of numerous NLG project for Schlumpberger. in 2015 Joshua was offered the opportunity to stay on as vice-president merger and acquisition of Schlumpberger, but he left to founded Cisoil an oil and gas company, in Houston, Texas. After a year he founded Sheatrust Capital in January 2013 with co-founder Mark Benchmark. Sheatrust Capital became the largest African private equity and venture capital firm with more than $16 Billion assets under management.

At Sheatrust Capital, Seun oversaw the firm's investment in Landhoven Energy, Multicent and, among other companies. As of 2021, Sheatrust capital had closed more than $16 billions of funding. In 2016, Joshua was named as Silicon Valley Private Equity International's Game Changer of the Year for his work with Sheatrust Capital. He also helped and advise to plan the acquisition of Xoom by PayPal. In 2017, Joshua took over lead responsibility for Sheatrust Capital's US operations from Mark Benchmark.

In April 2022, Sheatrust Capital management announced that, effective July 2022, Seun would be stepping down as co-CEO of Sheatrust's global brand and operations, handling over the reins to Mark Benchmark, the co-founder of Sheatrust Caapital, while Seun transition into the roles of executive chairman of the company.

Joshua has taken the lead or co-led Shetrust's investments in numerous early-stage and growth-stage companies.

Multicent

in 2021, Seun founded Multicent, an American financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provide online banking services, payment processing, facilitates commission-free trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, cryptocurrencies, via a mobile app and it provide payment infrastructure platform that allows merchant and small - middle businesses to accept payment anywhere in the world, introduced in May 2021. as of 2022, Multicent has growth to a total of 358,000 customers on their waiting list and the company has expanded to U.K, Canada south American and across the African continents.

Personal Life

Seun enjoyed playing golf and he is an active member of Rotary International Club, Oduyemi love to provide service to others, and his dedicated to promoting integrity, and advance global understanding, goodwill, and peace. He achieved this through his investment in the fellowship fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

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