INTELLIGENCE · PERSON DOSSIER
SAMPLE RELEASE UPDATED 2026-07-28Amara Okafor
CEO & Founder, Conduit
Conduit · London, UK
EST. HOLDING VALUE
$38M
CONDUIT VOTING
24.0%
Identity & Ownership
Current title
CEO & Founder, Conduit
runs the settlement network she started in 2021
Based
London, UK
Conduit HQ in Shoreditch
Conduit voting
24.0% of the vote on ~24% of equity
single share class, no super-voting stock
Index standing
No. 1 on the Fintechly Index
Power Players tier, joined Apr 2026
Fintechly 101
Class of 2026
Personal Wealth & Holdings
Est. holding value
$38M
implied by the Series B round terms; sample estimate
Raised at Conduit
$48M
seed to Series B, company total
Angel positions
3
early-stage settlement-tooling tickets, values undisclosed
Given
$250K / yr
annual engineering scholarships, Lagos
Background
Education
Systems engineering degree
Lagos
Postgraduate research in payment systems
London
Lifestyle
Long-distance runner
Walks to the office along the canal
Online presence
@amaraokafor
settlement-infrastructure commentary
Public record
Regular conference appearances on corridor economics
panel and keynote circuit since 2023
Career & Ventures
2013
Starts in payments operations, reconciling cross-border settlement files by hand
2017
Moves into corridor expansion at a large European payments processor
2021
Founds Conduit in London to give PSPs a stablecoin settlement rail
2022
First live corridor settles a full month of PSP volume without a failed window
2024
Closes a $14M Series A; corridor count reaches three
2026
Closes a $30M Series B and takes the No. 1 spot on the Fintechly Index
Affiliations
Founded / led (1)
Boards & advisory (2)
Founders mentoring circle
payments track
Angel investments (3)
Lumafold
'24
Paylattice
'25
Kwanza Rail
'23
Philanthropy (1)
Engineering scholarships, Lagos
$250K a year
Notable Relationships
Rampa CEO; Amara sits on her advisory board
Clearbank EU CTO; corridor integration partner
Meridian Capital; earliest institutional backer
Cobalto Pay founder; LATAM corridor counterpart
Stated Positions
Settlement should be invisible: money that arrives the moment it is sent, priced like bandwidth rather than like a privilege.
Argues stablecoin settlement belongs under e-money-style supervision rather than securities rules, and says so on the record.
“Nobody wakes up wanting a settlement network. They wake up wanting the money to already be there.”
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“If your corridor economics only work in a bull market, you do not have corridor economics.”
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Notable Coverage
6 items
Conduit settles its first live corridor
The first PSP pair moved a full month of volume across the rail without a failed settlement window.
Closes a $14M Series A
The round funded the jump from one corridor to three and the first treasury tooling.
Incumbent pushback on corridor pricing
Rival settlement desks argued per-corridor pricing could not hold at scale.
RESPONSE
Corridor volume tripled across the following two quarters.
Uptime methodology questioned - RESOLVED
A competitor claimed the published 99.98% settlement uptime excluded scheduled maintenance windows.
RESPONSE
Conduit published its measurement methodology in full; the figure stood.
Closes a $30M Series B
Total raised reaches $48M; the round priced the corridor network ahead of its 30th market.
Ranked No. 1 on the Fintechly Index
Tops the Power Players tier in her first year on the list.
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