John Hunpatin

Faith-driven serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Co-founder and CEO of OptDigital Tech Ltd and ODIGITAL Global Assets Ltd.

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

Good People, I have been away from posting because I was helping to set up a new structure to address the logistical challenges we encountered while delivering ContiSX Phones across Nigeria and beyond.

Let me share one lesson from that experience: Nigeria needs the old NIPOST back! Whatever it takes, we need a functional, reliable and efficient postal system nationwide. Nations cannot build modern economies without the infrastructure to move goods seamlessly. Yes, we need to fix this critical friction in our economy.

As our customers begin using their ContiSX Phones, Africa's pioneering blockchain phones, I am happy to announce that next week, ContiSX will unveil three new products: ContiSX Watch, ContiSX Ring and ContiSX EarPod.

You may want to hold off on ordering your ContiSX Phone here https://t.co/0BRvR8It1J so that you can order these devices together. After all, Christmas and holiday shopping will not be complete without some of the finest devices coming out of Africa!

Good People, there is something fundamentally different about these products. We are not building devices merely for entertainment. We are building intelligent tools for commerce, productivity, investing and wealth creation. A native African operating system for commerce; no Android, no Apple iOS, just ContiSX!

Your ContiSX Watch, Ring and EarPod will bring native intelligence into everyday life, empowering you to interact, conduct business and access investment opportunities in Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Pidgin and English.

Imagine speaking to ContiSX Sage through your Watch and requesting market briefings, financial insights, investment information or reminders. Imagine interacting with the capital market in your native language!

And as we prepare to open the doors of ContiSX Securities Exchange, our mission remains clear: Investment Inclusion. Plan for next week and let's make it big. Thanks for the support.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

BREAKING: Protest erupt As Police Barricade Venue Of Anti-Tinubu Meeting In Kano State

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

Good People, on Monday, we will begin two important programmes:
- Tekedia Capital Investment Cycle: Tekedia Capital will open a new investment cycle, presenting 18-20 companies. We hope to support these businesses with capital, knowledge and other resources as they develop solutions capable of improving our world. Learn more and become part of our community: https://t.co/gggoFLnYr1

- Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass: Tekedia Institute will begin the second edition of the Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass. The programme offers participants opportunities for internships within Nigeria’s capital market. The capital market commands a significant share of global economic activity, and we believe the 2030s will be a defining decade for Nigeria’s capital-market industry.

Through more than 15 practitioner-led modules, participants will gain the knowledge and practical understanding required to operate, innovate and build careers in this expanding sector. Join us and prepare for the future: https://t.co/Y77nOs8UwD

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_, we want to give you access to co-own high-potential startups like Corgi with only a few hundred dollars. Our funding cycle is open until Nov 9. To join us to co-own any of the 20 startups available, connect with us - [phone]; [email protected].

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_, we want to give you access to co-own high-potential startups like Corgi with only a few hundred dollars. Our funding cycle is open until Nov 9. To join us to co-own any of the 20 startups available, connect with us - [phone]; [email protected].

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_, we want to give you access to co-own high-potential startups like Corgi with only a few hundred dollars. Our funding cycle is open until Nov 9. To join us to co-own any of the 20 startups available, connect with us - [phone]; [email protected].

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

Nico and the Corgi Team,
I want to commend you for the exceptional execution of your mission. I received an update from Josh this morning, and I can proudly say: CONGRATULATIONS! Truly remarkable Team.

You have demonstrated extraordinary operational excellence, creating enormous value for shareholders in the process. Tekedia Capital is immensely proud of the Corgi Team.

Keep building, innovating and transforming communities. You are truly among the best in the game!

Tekedia Capital >> we make friends with the world's finest builders!

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_, we want to give you access to co-own high-potential startups like Corgi with only a few hundred dollars. Our funding cycle is open until Nov 9. To join us to co-own any of the 20 startups available, connect with us - [phone]; [email protected].

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_, we want to give you access to co-own high-potential startups like Corgi with only a few hundred dollars. Our funding cycle is open until Nov 9. To join us to co-own any of the 20 startups available, connect with us - [phone]; [email protected].

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@startupdrivers_ At @startupdrivers_ , we partner with Tekedia Capital to give you access to co-own high-potential startups in their investment deals with only a few hundred dollars. To join us, connect via any of these channels: [phone], [email protected], https://t.co/mpEZJxc6tm.

[Startup Drivers by Odigital @startupdrivers_]

A new investment cycle begins.

New founders. New opportunities. New bets on what’s next.

Our H2 2026 Investment Cycle opens October 5, featuring 20 promising startups in partnership with Tekedia Capital.

Ready to see what’s next?

📩 [email protected]

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

The new Tekedia Capital investment cycle has begun, featuring 20 global startups across chemicals, satellite systems, nuclear energy, artificial intelligence, space technology, insurance, biotechnology and more domains.

Join our investment community and co-own innovating startups building the future: https://t.co/gggoFLnYr1

In the last four months, we exited to OpenAI (Tensorpool), Vercel (Better Auth), Baseten (Blaxel), and transmuted Curo. Register and join us.

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_ , we partner with Tekedia Capital to give you access to co-own high-potential startups in their investment deals with only a few hundred dollars. To join us, connect via any of these channels: [phone], [email protected], https://t.co/mpEZJxc6tm.

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_ , we partner with Tekedia Capital to give you access to co-own high-potential startups in their investment deals with only a few hundred dollars. To join us, connect via any of these channels: [phone], [email protected], https://t.co/mpEZJxc6tm.

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_ , we partner with Tekedia Capital to give you access to co-own high-potential startups in their investment deals with only a few hundred dollars. To join us, connect via any of these channels: [phone], [email protected], https://t.co/mpEZJxc6tm.

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

I worked at one of the finest banks ever established: the peerless Diamond Bank in Lagos. It lives forever because it is diamond!

Our journey began with an intensive three-month training programme in Apapa, where the bank transformed engineers, doctors, accountants and graduates from many other disciplines into bankers. It was a remarkable experience. Diamond Bank helped me understand systems far beyond the constructs of natural philosophy I had encountered while studying engineering at FUTO.

The bank was exceptionally generous. It funded master’s programmes and supported my doctorate in banking and finance. During my doctoral studies, I focused on currency and globalisation, producing working papers for institutions including the World Bank and the African Union. You can read one of my contributions to the African single-currency debate on the African Union’s website: https://t.co/UrbAo4zPjk.

Banking helped me understand money. But later, as I read The Economist, Forbes, Businessweek and Fortune (I subscribed to them for more than a decade), I began to appreciate a more evolutionary state of money: capital. Money ideally is a unit of capital.

Interestingly, the money we commonly discuss is not itself a factor of production. Capital is. A. O. Lawal had explained that distinction in his elementary economics textbook, but its deeper meaning became clearer to me through banking, investing and business.

If you miss the distinction between money and capital, you miss a central mechanism of the modern economy. Money stores and transfers value. Capital is deployed to build productive capacity, finance companies and create wealth. Capital markets are the theatres.

On Monday, October 5, 2026, Tekedia Institute’s Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass will begin. Over eight weeks, participants will study the following:

Module 1: Market Frictions, Nature and Mission of Companies, Capital as a Factor of Production, and Capital Markets
Module 2: Introduction to Nigeria’s Capital Market: Foundations and Architecture
Module 3: SEC Nigeria: Registration, Regulations and Market Oversight

Module 4: Market Operators: Roles, Responsibilities and Interdependencies
Module 5: Capital-Raising Instruments: IPOs, Bonds, Commercial Papers and Private Markets
Module 6: Listing Processes, Documentation and Regulatory Compliance

Module 7: Capital-Market Operations: Trading, Settlement and Surveillance
Module 8: Benefits of Listing and Capital-Market Participation
Module 9: Market Data, Analytics and Investment Research Systems
Module 10: Derivatives, Structured Products and Hedging Instruments

Module 11: Technology and Financial Market Infrastructure
Module 12: Digital Assets, Tokenisation and the ISA 2025 Framework
Module 13: Compliance, Risk Management and Ethics in Capital Markets

Module 14: Careers, Business Opportunities and Promising Regulated Sole Proprietorships
Module 15: Business Development, Market Strategy and Capital-Market Innovation
Module 16: Investment and Portfolio Management

The programme concludes with a practical capstone project.

If you want to deepen your understanding of how money becomes capital, how companies raise funds and how markets compound wealth, register here: https://t.co/Y77nOs8UwD .
Programme fee: ₦350,000 or US$500. Join us for your login.

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

On October 5, 2026, the next Tekedia Capital investment cycle begins. We plan to present approximately 20 innovative companies spanning nuclear energy, satellite systems, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, space technology, software, insurance and more.

Join us and co-invest in companies shaping the future: https://t.co/SyV9tnEaJ7

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_ , we partner with Tekedia Capital to give you access to co-own high-potential startups in their investment deals with only a few hundred dollars. To join us connect via any of these channels: [phone], [email protected], https://t.co/mpEZJxc6tm.

[Ndubuisi Ekekwe @ndekekwe]

In this business, you write tons of cheques to founders and startups. We make about 40 investments yearly. Deals happen. Exits happen. Failures exist. But I found the Blaxel team to be superbly amazing. I want to commend the team for caring for their investors.

While I cannot disclose terms of its acquisition by Baseten here, the whole thing was designed to make investors and shareholders have a great win. Guys, we appreciate that!

And Baseten, we received the share certificate today. We will be praying for an opening ringing of a bell at NASDAQ very soon! Go and win the market and do it. Tekedia Capital is excited to be part of one of the most amazing startups in the world right now.

Baseten reached a valuation of $13 billion in June 2026, driven by massive enterprise demand for AI inference infrastructure.

Valuation Milestones (from Google public search)
-June 2026 ($13 Billion): Raised a split-tranche $1.5 billion
-Series F round (valued between $11B and $13B) led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital, with Sands Capital and Wellington Management co-leading.
-January 2026 ($5 Billion): Secured a $300 million Series E round led by IVP and CapitalG, which included a $150 million investment from Nvidia.

-September 2025 ($2.15 Billion): Closed a $150 million Series D round led by BOND.
-February 2025 ($825 Million): Reached an $825 million valuation during a $75 million Series C round.
-March 2024 (~$200 Million): Valued around $200 million following its Series B round

Yes, the valuation moved from $2.15 billion in September 2025 to $13 billion in June 2026! Do not ask me where it is now!

Tekedia Capital >> we befriend the world’s finest builders on the pursuit of entrepreneurial capitalism.

[John Hunpatin @JohnHunpatin64]

@ndekekwe At @startupdrivers_ , we are privileged to have invested alongside @tekedia in Blaxel, and now Baseten via acquisition. Our mission to give our citizens access to co-own high-potential startups with only a few hundred dollars is bearing fruits. We await the next cycle in October.