Efe Ojadua · Founder, product builder, technologistI build technology companies around problems worth solving.

I’m Efe Ojadua — a Nigerian entrepreneur with a background in design and software engineering. I turn operational challenges into thoughtful products, and build businesses with a global outlook.

Lagos, NigeriaBuilding for a global market

The craft changed. The instinct didn’t.

My path into technology wasn’t linear. I started out studying accounting (BSc, University of Benin), taught myself to build for the web, and found a place where design and engineering could work together. Over time, that craft pulled me closer to the bigger questions: what should we build, who does it serve, and how should it work in the real world?

Today, I spend more of my time building companies and shaping products than presenting myself as a service provider. I still care deeply about interfaces, code, and the details of execution — but I’m increasingly interested in the systems, decisions, and business models behind useful software.

I’m interested in practical technology: products that respect the complexity of people’s work and make difficult things easier to run.

More about me

Different markets. One builder’s instinct.

Some of these are active builds; others are part of the journey that shaped how I think. Across each, the thread is consistent: understand a meaningful problem and build a product that makes the system work better.

Current focus

Hospitality technology

Innbase

Co-founder & CEO

Building an operating system for hotels, with a focus on making everyday operations, money movement, and inventory more visible and accountable.

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Previous venture

Digital product studio

Quadplan

Founder, later Senior Software Engineer

A strategic product development studio that partners with startups and SMEs to take ideas from concept to scalable launch — blending design, engineering, and startup-minded execution.

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Earlier venture

Financial technology

Middletrust

Co-founder & CEO

An earlier chapter in building financial technology products, and an important part of my experience learning how trust and payments shape digital businesses.

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How I approach the work

Product thinking

I start with the people, the workflow, and the business reality — not a feature list looking for a problem.

Design sensitivity

I care about clarity, hierarchy, and the small interactions that make complex products feel understandable.

Engineering depth

I’m comfortable moving from an idea and a system model into architecture, implementation, and iteration.

A record of the building blocks.

Before and alongside company building, I’ve worked across digital products, interfaces, and experiments. These selected projects offer a glimpse of that earlier hands-on work.

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Good work starts with a problem worth understanding.

I’m always open to thoughtful conversations about products, technology, entrepreneurship, and the future of building from Africa.

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