Ham Serunjogi

Ham Serunjogi is the co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash, a financial technology company enabling free and instant peer-to-peer cross-border payments across Africa and Europe. Beyond leading Chipper Cash, Serunjogi is an active investor in African fintech and financial services companies. He graduated from Grinnell College in 2016 with a degree in economics and began his career at Meta in Dublin, where he built partnerships with major UK advertisers before transitioning to full-time entrepreneurship. Serunjogi's investment activity focuses primarily on seed-stage fintech and financial infrastructure companies across West Africa, particularly Nigeria. Between March 2021 and July 2022, he invested in three seed-stage companies: CreditChek, a creditworthiness verification platform; Sudo, a developer-first payments and card issuance API; and Termii, a customer messaging and OTP delivery service. His investments demonstrate a strategic focus on building foundational financial infrastructure and payment solutions for African markets. Beyond investing, Serunjogi serves on the Board of Trustees at Grinnell College, where he sits on the Investment Committee overseeing the college's approximately 3.5 billion dollar endowment. In 2023, he was appointed by President Biden as one of twelve inaugural members of the President's Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement. He was also recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in finance for 2023.