Angela Essien
Nigerian technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Schoolable
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| Intro | Nigerian technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Schoolable | |
| Places | Nigeria | |
| is | Businessperson Entrepreneur Founder | |
| Work field | Business | |
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Biography
Angela Essien is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur. She is co-founder of Schoolable, an edutech platform for education financing in Africa.
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Before starting her own business, Essien worked as a network engineer at Ettetronics Nigeria Limited, and also taught in several schools. She and Henry Nnalue founded Allpro as a startup in 2017. Allpro offers credit management to lenders and gives proprietors, parents and teachers access to credit.
In 2018 Allpro participated in GreenHouse Lab, Nigeria's first female-focused tech accelerator programme in partnership with Google. The company received venture functing from Microtraction shortly afterwards. Allpro's platform is now branded as Schoolable.