Founder & CEO, Melon · Nigeria
I lead Melon, a geospatial intelligence and data infrastructure company. We help businesses, governments and development organisations get verified, location-specific data across West Africa and other emerging markets, and act on it.
A data marketplace and exchange layer connecting organisations that hold valuable datasets with the businesses and decision-makers who need actionable intelligence. Melon supplies the collection, verification and provenance underneath it, so a buyer can trust what they are buying.
Scale 3,000+ field agents across Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal
A technology-enabled field agent network and mobile data collection platform for gathering, geotagging and verifying ground-level information across West Africa. Built for the practical conditions of field research: patchy connectivity, mixed literacy, and data that has to survive an audit.
Traction 3,000+ Google Play downloads across four countries
Led impact measurement and evaluation across a portfolio of clean-energy businesses in West and East Africa at All On, turning field evidence into investment decisions and development outcomes that could be defended.
Portfolio 54+ clean-energy companies, roughly $25 million under measurement
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I am a researcher, entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Melon, a geospatial intelligence and data infrastructure company building the systems that help organisations understand what is happening on the ground.
My work spans more than fifteen years of research, impact measurement, data systems and development practice, with governments, development finance institutions and businesses across Africa. Before committing fully to entrepreneurship I led impact measurement across clean energy portfolios in Africa.
That work kept surfacing the same problem: decisions about people, markets and communities are routinely made without reliable, contextual data. Melon is my answer to it. I care about the intersection of data, technology, artificial intelligence and development, and about building infrastructure that makes reliable information accessible and useful across emerging markets.
Partnerships, data collaborations, speaking, or a conversation about what is actually happening on the ground somewhere. Email is the fastest route.
ayokunle@melon.ngAlso building
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