Interview with Eloho Omame, Cofounder of First Check, MD Endeavor Nigeria

Eloho Omame is the co-founder of First Check, a Venture Capital firm giving women-led companies their first seed investments. Before First Check, she was the MD and CEO of Endeavor, a company dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs to scale. In this Founders Connect interview, Eloho shares her unique journey and all the varied facets that have contributed to her current phase. She talks to us about growing up in a wealthy family, studying in the UK, starting her career as an investment banker, moving back to Nigeria and the reasons behind it, building her companies, and finally, the mistakes and lessons learned along the way.
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0:00 - Mozilla
1:51 - Background/ Growing Up
9:04 - People and Influences
20:55 - Finishing UnderGrad, Investment Banking in the UK
22:44 - Moving Back to Nigeria, First Bank
33:54 - Getting an MBA
34:05 - Moving to Venture Capital, Credit Suisse
37:37 - Moving Back Again, Lagos Innovates
47:03 - Endeavor
52:44 - Mistakes made at Endeavor
56:49 - First Check
1:03:22 - Wins
1:06:19 - Mistakes
1:10:39 - Advice for Female Founders
1:13:45 - Next Five Years of Career

[@fisayomioluwasuyi655]

Your story inspire me, Eloho.
Thank you, Peace for teling great stories to inspire us.

[@PeaceItimiofficial]

No thank you for watching

[@SheyiShobayo]

Lovely as usual.
Thanks for bringing Eloho, please do tell her to consider all male founding teams as well ooo

[@ofofononoumoren]

It's pretty awesome to be able to listen to sincere and open conversations on FC everytime. Cheers, this is some pathfinding stuff around. 🥂

[@DrKlaus]

I saw this video from Twitter. I’m sure it’s going to be an interesting one. Downloaded!

[@Ikpia_Blessing_Isioma]

This is really inspiring😊

[@francisprince3013]

Nah our sister be this, welcome my daughter.😅
Secondly, First person ✌️.