Lopsii Olagoke
Lopsii Olagoke is a entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nezz, a financial-technology platform for instant, bank-verified, high-value payments in the luxury market. His career spans academic research, enterprise SaaS development, and financial-technology innovation.
Early life and education
Details of Olagoke’s early life remain private, though he pursued an academic track that combined programming and applied mathematics. He began his professional career as a research programmer, collaborating with postdoctoral researchers and faculty in mathematics and computer science.
Academic and technical career
Olagoke’s early work in academia focused on computational geophysics. He contributed to the development of open-source geophysical modelling software designed for government research departments and oil and gas companies. These tools allowed large-scale geological and seismic simulations, and the codebase was distributed under open-source licenses to support both academic and industrial use cases.
Transition to entrepreneurship
Following his academic period, Olagoke shifted to building commercial products. He founded a B2B SaaS company in the home daycare sector, a niche that had been overlooked by larger childcare software providers. Similar in concept to platforms like Brightwheel and Procare Solution but optimized for at-home childcare operators, the company achieved significant growth. In its first nine months of operation, it scaled from zero to over $90 million in processed transaction volume, with 15 enterprise accounts adopting the platform.
Interest in financial technology
Olagoke’s interest in financial technology was shaped in part by personal experience. During an early attempt to purchase cryptocurrency (XRP) via the exchange Kraken, he encountered slow wire transfers, delayed confirmations, and lost pricing opportunities due to settlement lag. The frustration revealed a broader inefficiency in global payments infrastructure—especially for time-sensitive, high-value transfers. While the episode reduced his enthusiasm for cryptocurrency as a practical solution, it sparked his interest in regulated, bank-based innovations that could solve similar problems more reliably.
Nezz
In partnership with technologist Brandon Gallagher, Olagoke co-founded Nezz to modernize high-value payments for the luxury sector. As CEO, he oversees strategy, product development, and market expansion. Nezz’s platform integrates directly with banking infrastructure, allowing brokers, buyers, and sellers to verify funds, complete KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures, and move multimillion-dollar sums instantly for a cost of less than one dollar. The onboarding process is designed to take under five minutes, and users can even function as their own escrow agents, reducing reliance on third parties.
Vision and impact
Olagoke envisions Nezz as the gold-standard for luxury transactions, where complex, trust-dependent deals (yachts, high-end automobiles, rare watches, and premium real estate) can be completed with the speed and simplicity of consumer payment apps like PayPal or Venmo, but with the regulatory strength and fraud protection required at multimillion-dollar scales.
Recognition
Though early in its lifecycle, Nezz has drawn interest from investors, luxury brokers, and auction houses seeking safer, faster alternatives to wires, crypto, or cash. Olagoke’s work has been recognized for merging technical credibility from enterprise SaaS and academic computing with practical financial innovation.