HRTech | Nigeria
Hire with Proof, Not Promises
What they do:
Growwr helps businesses verify skills, hire the right talent, manage teams, track performance, and make secure payments from one platform. We screen professionals based on their skills and work experience, helping companies make better hiring decisions while reducing bias and guesswork. Businesses can also manage projects, monitor work, and pay talent securely across borders.
For professionals, Growwr provides the tools needed to build credibility, showcase verified skills and work history, access work opportunities, send invoices, receive secure payments, and grow their careers. Our goal is to make hiring and working together easier, safer, and more transparent for everyone.
Why we Invested:
African talent has long faced a trust gap in the global job market, not a skills gap. Immigration restrictions in the US and UK are pushing companies to hire remotely at exactly the moment Africa's digital workforce is projected to grow 130% by 2030, the fastest-growing talent pool in the world. Existing platforms solve pieces of this problem, but none combine AI-verified vetting, project management, and compliant cross-border payouts into a single workflow the way Growwr does.
The results speak for themselves: roles filled in under two hours against a 40-plus day industry average, and millions in cross-border payouts already processed to talent across 180+ countries. We saw two founders who had lived the problem firsthand, building with real capital discipline, and backed them to build the trust layer African talent has been missin
The Founder:
Obinna Umeh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Growwr. Over the past four years, he has worked across growth, strategy, and product leadership roles serving startups and technology companies in Africa, Europe, and North America. Prior to founding Growwr, he held roles at WPMU DEV, Web2Ranker, and Breet, where he contributed to growth, marketing, and business expansion initiatives. He holds a law degree and is passionate about building technology that expands access to economic opportunities globally.
Emmanuel is the Co-Founder and CTO of Growwr. Over the past five years, he has built and maintained critical infrastructure across fintech, health tech, and talent acquisition, serving teams in Africa and globally. His engineering career, prior to Growwr, spanned roles at Trove Finance and across remote-first global teams, where he reduced system failures, cut infrastructure costs, and rewrote legacy services to be faster and more reliable. He is driven by the challenge of building systems that perform under pressure and hold up at scale.
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Nigeria
