Ifeoma Uddoh

Ifeoma Uddoh
Citizenship
Occupation
Known forFintech Credit
Notable work
  • She is founder of Shecluded, a fintech credit company

Ifeoma Hope Uddoh, or Ifeoma Nwakwesi Uddoh Listenⓘ is a Nigerian social entrepreneur. She is founder of Shecluded, a fintech credit company aimed at women in Africa.[1]

In December 2019 Uddoh was one of five female entrepreneurs to emerge as winners of a UK-Nigeria Tech Hub competition sponsored by the British High Commission in Lagos.[2] The winners received sponsorship to travel to the United Kingdom for the January 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit.[3][4]

Education and early career

Uddoh studied Industrial Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Nigeria. She subsequently obtained a master's degree in Management Science and Operational Research from Lancaster University, United Kingdom.[5] She also completed an Executive MBA at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.[6]

Her career spans over a decade in strategy consulting, analytics and seed funding, with experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), IROKO Partners Limited, and Sasware, where she served as Chief Operating Officer from March 2015 to December 2018.[7]

Shecluded

Uddoh founded Shecluded in April 2019 after observing, during her role reviewing pitch decks at a seed funding company, that women were almost entirely absent from the pool of applicants for investment.[8] Her motivation was also personal — she grew up in a single-parent home after her father's death and witnessed her widowed mother's businesses fail due to lack of access to credit and business information.[9]

Shecluded provides business loans, insurance and business advisory services to women entrepreneurs in Nigeria and across Africa. By 2023, the company had built a community of over 200,000 women and deployed over ₦1 billion in loans.[10] In 2023, the company launched the Shecluded Hub in Lagos as a physical space for women entrepreneurs.[11]

Shecluded was selected as one of thirteen companies for the NASDAQ Milestone Makers programme in Spring 2021, focused on reducing inequalities as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.[12] Uddoh is a Halcyon Fellow and has been recognised by the Financial Alliance for Women for her work in gender-lens financing.[13]

References

  1. ↑ TechCabal, Nigerian Women in Tech, March 2020, p.61.
  2. ↑ Emma Okonji, British Commission to Sponsor Entrepreneurs to UK-Africa Investment Summit, This Day, 16 December 2019. Accessed 16 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Tunde Ososanya, UK-Nigeria Tech Hub: 5 Nigerian women entrepreneurs to get UK training, Legit, 9 Jan 2020. Accessed 16 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Finalists announced for the International Tech Hub Network’s Female Tech Founders and TeXchange programmes, gov.uk, 13 January 2020. Accessed 20 16 2020.
  5. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh a Nigerian fintech entrepreneur positively changing lives". Lionesses of Africa. 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  6. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  7. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh". Financial Alliance for Women. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  8. ↑ "The best financial advice I have for women is have a growth mindset Ifeoma Uddoh". Leading Ladies Africa. 2021-02-08. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  9. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh a Nigerian fintech entrepreneur positively changing lives". Lionesses of Africa. 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  10. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh Founder CEO Shecluded". African Business Stories. 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  11. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh Founder CEO Shecluded". African Business Stories. 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  12. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh". About.me. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  13. ↑ "Ifeoma Uddoh". Financial Alliance for Women. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
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