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Investor profile

Barbara Iyayi

Founding Partner and CEO, Unicorn Growth Ventures

About

Barbara Iyayi simultaneously serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Liquid Credit, a cross-border credit infrastructure startup, and Founding Partner of Unicorn Growth Capital, giving her a rare perspective as an active Web3/fintech founder building the same infrastructure she invests in as a VC. She was an early institutional backer of Zone, Africa's first regulated layer-1 blockchain network for payments, as far back as 2018, and brings deep credit and capital-markets experience from traditional finance roles at firms like JP Morgan to her focus on regulated blockchain infrastructure and cross-border liquidity solutions for underserved markets. Barbara Iyayi simultaneously serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Liquid Credit, a cross-border credit infrastructure startup, and Founding Partner of Unicorn Growth Capital, giving her a rare perspective as an active Web3/fintech founder building the same infrastructure she invests in as a VC. She was an early institutional backer of Zone, Africa's first regulated layer-1 blockchain network for payments, as far back as 2018, and brings deep credit and capital-markets experience from traditional finance roles at firms like JP Morgan to her focus on regulated blockchain infrastructure and cross-border liquidity solutions for underserved markets.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
FinTech
Web3
Crypto
SaaS
Enterprise
Diversity focus
Under-represented founders

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $2.5M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA
Africa
LatAm
India
Europe
Asia-Pacific
MENA