Carousel Network produces one of Africa’s most listened-to podcasts. Piggyvest serves one of the largest communities of savers on the continent. Plur Africa runs one of Nigeria’s most recognisable community-led events. First Check Africa backs some of the country’s most promising early-stage founders. Odun Eweniyi is a co-founder of all four.
In 2025, this pattern has become impossible to dismiss. Across finance, the creator economy, and capital, Eweniyi emerged as a consistent force behind systems that scale without breaking. It’s less about chasing novelty and more about building institutions people trust enough to return to.
At PiggyTech, where she’s co-founder and chief operating officer, 2025 marked a clear institutional coming-of-age. The company spent the year reducing fragility: tightening operational discipline, prioritising reliability, and stress-testing its ability to function as a default money platform rather than a savings app. One visible outcome of that maturity was the elevation of Pocket—originally a supporting wallet feature—into Piggyvest’s core financial backbone, enabling the company to internalise key banking rails and reduce dependence on traditional banks as a single point of failure.
By mid-2025, PiggyVest had grown to seven million users, processed ₦2.6 trillion in payouts, and was recording savings of roughly ₦47,000 every second.
The same pattern holds beyond fintech. Through Carousel Network, which Eweniyi co-founded, I Said What I Said has grown into one of the most listened-to podcasts on the continent, with a sold-out world tour spanning three continents. Then there’s Plur Africa’s Group Therapy, which is consistently one of Nigeria’s most recognisable community-led events.
Taken together, 2025 clarified Eweniyi’s role in Nigeria’s technology and creator ecosystem. A single product or company can no longer define her, but a pattern: whatever she helps found, those systems endure.
