Adaeze Uzor

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Co-founder & COO at Northwind Cloud · hiring, go-to-market

Northwind Cloud
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
12+ years experience
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
English, Yoruba
Raising
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Overview

Building Northwind Cloud in Lagos - vertical SaaS for clinics. Previously built and sold a small vertical SaaS for clinics company. Most at home with fundraising and healthcare.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on content decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on fundraising
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
hiringgo-to-markethealthcarefundraisingcontent
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1.5M seed for patient intake for dental practices

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$584k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$264k MRR after 21 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$264k MRR after 21 months. Looking for investors who know media and can help with expansion into Africa.

Lagos, Nigeria · remote OKhealthcarehiringgo-to-market
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Northwind Cloud · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Raised $18 million across 3 rounds.
    • Took Northwind Cloud from zero to $3 million ARR.
  2. Sales Manager
    Jan 2021 - May 2024
    Safaricom · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Opened 5 new logos over $1 million ACV in the region.
  3. Enterprise Account Executive
    Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
    PwC · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Opened 7 new logos over $1 million ACV in the region.
    • Signed 17 channel partners that now source 31% of pipeline.
  4. Partnerships Manager
    Nov 2015 - Apr 2018
    Takealot · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Closed 127% of quota two years running.
    • Built the healthcare team from 3 to 29 reps.
  5. Account Executive
    Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
    Amazon · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Closed 196% of quota two years running.
    • Signed 9 channel partners that now source 15% of pipeline.

Projects

Open-source fundraising toolkit
2022

A small library for vertical SaaS for clinics that 198 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from company
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling vertical SaaS for clinics.

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Education

  1. Carnegie Mellon University Africa
    MS, Computer Science
    2018 - 2020
  2. Ashesi University
    BSc, Computer Science
    2010 - 2014

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