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Tosin Agbabiaka is currently an early-stage investor at Octopus Ventures, a global venture capital firm. There he provides capital, strategic, and operational support to grow companies focused on, amongst other things, financial inclusion. He has worked on economic development efforts domestically and globally, from supporting local development efforts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s District 4 to recently lending finance and legal support to build clean energy projects in Africa. He is a Senior Fellow (Copenhagen 2011 and Pat Cox 2012), migration policy advocate, lawyer, and ardent Duke basketball fan.
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