Olufemi Chris is a business strategist, finance analyst and entrepreneur. He helps founders understand the numbers behind their business and build companies that run beyond them.
Recent stages: DevFest, The Genesis Conference, ISOWO, Smart Exchange
Olufemi has worked in venture capital, evaluating early-stage businesses and building financial models. He co-founded Travella, a logistics startup, and runs WestCiti, a hospitality business. Today he advises founders on retainer. He has also taught personal finance and investing through webinars and a newsletter.
His principle: owners cannot consistently make good decisions about a business they do not understand numerically.
Olufemi founded and operates WestCiti Restaurant & Lounge, a hospitality business that has generated over half a billion naira in gross revenue.
He also co-founded Travella, a logistics startup that grew to serve over 2,000 users.
While at university he co-founded Founder Square, an Akure community that held monthly sessions teaching founders and aspiring founders. It was later incorporated, and startups it helped incubate have won hackathon prizes, with one growing to around 10,000 users.
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Strategic decisions, growth opportunities and commercially viable businesses.
Understand your numbers, improve profitability and manage cash flow.
Practical lessons from building and operating businesses in Nigeria.
From idea and product to validation, adoption and revenue.
The founder and investor perspective on becoming investment-ready.
Systems, processes and KPIs that let a business scale beyond its founder.
The Genesis Conference 2025, themed "The Business of the Future". Saturday, 20 September 2025.
A talk on what success means beyond income and job titles, delivered at DevFest 2023, the Google Developer Groups conference. Olufemi also spoke at DevFest in 2024.
Full-time job, freelancing or entrepreneurship? Delivered at DevFest in 2023, covering the FIRE movement and the 25x rule.
A Founder Square session in Akure on bookkeeping, budgeting, forecasting, capital structure and funding options.
Smart Exchange, Smart Conversations. Live on X Spaces.
Tryv360. Facilitated session.
Light Nation Akure. Finance webinar, online.
The Growth Table by ISOWO, a monthly gathering for SME founders. Guest speaker on funding, cash flow and capital, hosted by Olukayode Elvis.
The Ploy Business Room, alongside finance professional Anya Mabel. Online.
The Genesis Conference 2025, themed The Business of the Future.
Ibile Youth Academy and Lagos State Youth Ambassadors, Ikorodu Division. Quarterly Insight Session, online.
4Herfrika. Smart money moves for everyday life, online.
WSA Nigeria NEIC 2024 Bootcamp, Day Two: business operations, financial management and growth. Online.
The KO Circle. Online.
Keynote speaker, AIESEC in Akure, for Global Money Week. In person.
“It was definitely needed, because some have a lot of money too but they’re not ‘free’ in a sense.”
“Mr Olufemi gave us a solid masterclass on finance!”
What nobody tells you about building a business. Real lessons, real numbers, real business. Pre-orders are open on Selar. It grows out of the Business Truth series, and the same title anchors one of his keynotes.
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Essays on strategy, finance and building businesses that last.
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