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Afolabi Kilaso is founder and CEO of BettaLyfe (since 2023), which Kilaso describes as an inclusive fintech platform for Nigeria's informal workers, microbusinesses, drivers and underserved families, offering affordable health cover, savings, micro-pensions, credit and everyday payments through low-value transactions. Kilaso co-founded the agritech platform Agrobint (2020–2023), has a long career in IT project and business management, and since 2025 has been a project manager at the Africa-Canada Education Foundation. Based in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Afolabi began as a database administrator at Supercard Ltd in Lagos in September 2005, managing the databases behind multi-function smart cards. In August 2006 Afolabi became assistant IT manager at ORGA Kartensysteme in Nigeria, administering servers and data security for recharge-card production.
From October 2016 Afolabi worked as an IT project and business manager in Abuja, delivering the Penacle ePension Management System, which the profile says supports over 300,000 pension beneficiaries. Roles as IT business manager (2018-2020) and IT project manager at West Digital (2020) followed.
In August 2020 Afolabi co-founded Agrobint, an agritech platform connecting smallholder farmers to inputs, finance and markets, and stayed until February 2023. A Google Cloud Career Jumpstart apprenticeship ran from October 2021 to September 2022.
Afolabi founded BettaLyfe in April 2023, a fintech platform for Nigeria's informal workers, offering health cover, savings, micro-pensions, credit and payments through low-value transactions. Since September 2025 Afolabi has also been a project manager at the Africa-Canada Education Foundation in Surrey, British Columbia.