Chukwuma Ogunleye

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Co-founder & COO at Vellum Care · Supply chain software · operations, SaaS

Vellum Care
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
11+ years experience
Lagos Business School
English, Yoruba
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Vellum Care, working on supply chain software. Grew the team to 86 people across 5 countries. Previously built and sold a small supply chain software company. Most at home with logistics and enterprise sales. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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Skills
SaaSenterprise saleslogisticsoperations
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closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - vendor onboarding for hospital networks, 24% month-on-month growth

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$5M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$600k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
24% month-on-month growth after 28 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

24% month-on-month growth after 28 months. Looking for investors who know creator tools and can help with regulatory approvals.

Lagos, Nigeriaenterprise salessaaslogistics
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    May 2024 - Present
    Vellum Care · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Signed 318 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small supply chain software company.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Dec 2022 - May 2024
    Takealot · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Ran 49 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Grew logistics revenue from $2 million to $26 million ARR.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
    McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Grew logistics revenue from $4 million to $44 million ARR.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
    Amazon · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Sit on 5 boards.
  5. Group Product Manager
    Feb 2016 - Jun 2018
    Deloitte · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 11 days to 1.

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Education

  1. Lagos Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2013 - 2015
  2. Covenant University
    BEng, Engineering
    2007 - 2011

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