Oye Olowu

Founder

A Nigerian entrepreneur and founder of Nigerent, a property technology company. It works in the Nigerian residential rental market, a market marked by the convention of demanding a full year or two years of rent from a tenant in advance, which makes housing a heavy cash burden on households living on a monthly income. Nigerent belongs to the African category of property technology firms addressing that gap with digital tools for payment, verification and intermediation, connecting tenant to landlord through a platform that shortens the path from search to contract. Its founder works within an active Nigerian property technology entrepreneurship ecosystem, which shares an interest in questions of trust, documentation of ownership and easing payment in a market where informal dealing predominates.