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.