Happy Monday Everyone 😊 It feels like the perfect time to re-introduce myself to my new followers. I am known as The Olivia Pope of VC aka "The fixer" because I love problem solving for founders. 🏠 I grew up in Lagos and moved to the UK when I was 17. I am Mum to Adam, Ivy and Iris 🎩 I am a multiple hat wearer. I started my career at SVB UK in Venture Debt, then I started the first child-friendly coding school for Mums, Mums in Tech. In 2018, I joined the Venture arm of a Family Office investing across all stages and sectors. I set up Levare Ventures in 2022 to invest in African startups and have made 7 investments into companies like Chowdeck and Raenest. I am also an Angel investor into 8 companies. 🗣️I am an advocate for more inclusive funding and representation in VC. I most recently sat on the Taskforce to increase the capital allocated to High Growth Women led businesses. 🎙️I have spoken widely across government and corporates ensuring we create inclusive spaces for female talent to thrive, Navigating career pivots, Increasing the numbers of female angel investors and Why we need more women on boards. ❓I firmly believe we need more women on the table and have begun plotting my next 10 years and taking up more NED roles. 🫂 Communities are really important and I run a VC mentoring group which I started in 2020, I have also found communities like WITSEND Community and Transact Global a lifeline. ☎️ If you would like to pitch a European deal, you can reach me at samos.vc If you would like to pitch an African deal, it's levareventures.com You can also reach me at linktr.ee/JuneAngelides if you have other questions ☺️

12 weeks into building The Portfolio Method and one thing keeps showing up. Most people running a portfolio career have no idea what they're actually worth. If that's you, comment PORTFOLIO and I'll add you to the beta waitlist.

This is how the biggest careers get built: The most successful people have careers with more than one role @JuneAngelides mentions @bgurley and @andrewchen as examples They are also authors, advisors, podcasters and operators. Instead of waiting for opportunities, they create them.

This might just be the funniest AI generated voicemail transcript I have ever received from my son's school. I literally did a double take. (drugs= geography) 😅

The whole @UKSovereignAI team came together to close the trading day at the London Stock Exchange on Friday. If we do our job right, we hope more British AI companies will choose to start, scale & list here too. Thanks to @LSEGplc for such a warm welcome!

The best part about being over 40 is the clarity about what really matters.

Anyone else unable to access @claudeai ?

Congratulations to the team at @CallosumAI on a whopper $10.5m round led by our friends at @pluralplatform and backed by us at @samosvc 🎉 The future of compute is in great hands!

Here's a gift.I've built a free Portfolio Career Audit that maps exactly where your energy, revenue and visibility are and tells you what to focus on first. It takes 5 minutes. The insights will stay with you a lot longer. → Run your free audit: theportfolio-method.com If this hit home, share it with someone managing more than one career. They'll thank you for it.

How @JuneAngelides went from training mums in tech to backing $100M companies across Africa and Europe; her unfiltered take on raising capital, managing runway, the reality for female founders, and what African founders must do to stand out youtu.be/OpUXZwDBlp4?si=2ycr… via @YouTube

“Don’t be afraid to talk about your credentials because that is what gets you to attention” Every builder will find this episode very inspiring. So much to learn from @JuneAngelides Watch the full conversation now: youtu.be/OpUXZwDBlp4 This episode is sponsored by @obiexhq

Leaving corporate. Building a startup. Knowing when to shut it down. Then backing global companies as a VC. @JuneAngelides’ journey holds lessons every founder should hear. Watch the full conversation now: youtu.be/OpUXZwDBlp4 This episode is sponsored by @obiexhq

Nigerians can build hard things! This is exactly what @LordBinary_ and the entire @chowdeck team have shown. There were many naysayers who said a food and logistics company would never work. Femi has provided the receipts. Incredible to see how much growth has happened in just 2 years!

2025 felt like 10 years packed into one @chowdeck and I am incredibly proud of what the team pulled off. We delivered over 10 million orders in 2025 alone & celebrated 2.1M registered users! But behind those 10 million deliveries were millions of small, human efforts; people who showed up every day to make it all work, livelihoods built, businesses scaled and many bets that paid off. Immense gratitude to our team, investors, vendors, riders, and customers for believing and sticking with us every single day. Let’s do it again bigger & better in 2026 ❤️ It’s still Day 1 🚀

On the last day of 2025 I learnt I can successfully negotiate with Gemini 🤩 Happy New Year 🎊

I've just built a pretty cool presentation using Nano Banana and I'm officially hooked. Bravo @GeminiApp 🎉

Never saw this coming 💫

These are the investor updates I like🙌🏾 Vendors processed ₦1.4 Billion on @chowdeck during The Big Black Friday Weekend💥💥💥 chowdeck.com/blog/vendors-pr…

Never imagined @boardyai and I would be such pals 😊

I gave up on X for a while. I'm back. If you're building in deeptech, health tech, robotics or future of work in the UK, Europe or US let's chat. Pre-seed.

Everyone is gushing about @RaenestApp new app experience. ✨ Very fulfilling I’d say