Mo Nagdy
Experience
Bolt — Head of Execution, Business Development
— present
Leading global investments and strategic partnerships in the Rides vertical to grow marketplace supply and GMV. Executed deals with fleets, banks, fintechs, private capital funds, VAS providers, and OEMs.
Veyor — CEO & Co-founder (exit)
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Raised $500k pre-seed to build an AI-powered information-retrieval platform. Scaled to 8,000+ users before exit to marketer.com. Built the AI backend and led product development.
Juven — Investment Principal; then Advisor
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Founding member of Juven, the Goldman Sachs Africa Growth Markets investment platform spin-out (portfolio below). Transitioned to an advisory role in January 2022 while building Veyor.
Goldman Sachs — Associate (prev. Analyst, Intern)
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Principal investing in Africa across the capital structure as part of the Special Situations Group.
| Company | Sector | Investment | Vintage | Exit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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MTN Nigeria | Telecoms | Pre-IPO equity | 2007 | NGX, 2019 |
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IHS Towers | Infrastructure | Pre-IPO equity | 2014 | NYSE, 2021 |
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Jumia | E-commerce | $326m pre-IPO round | 2016 | NYSE, 2019 |
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Eat'N'Go | QSR | GS-led round | 2017 | held |
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Jumo | Fintech | $52m round, GS-led | 2017 | held |
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UNICAF | Higher education | $28m Series B, GS-led | 2018 | held |
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Kobo360 | Logistics | $30m Series A, GS-led | 2019 | held |
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Twiga Foods | Agri-foodtech | $30m Series B, GS-led | 2019 | held |
EBRD — Analyst
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Developed a web application and rating methodology to streamline the investment approval process for all EBRD investments.
Our World in Data — Research Assistant
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Researched long-term global development trends under Dr Max Roser and Professor Sir David Hendry.
University of Oxford — Research Assistant
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J.P. Morgan, London — Summer Analyst
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Credit Trading desk (index, banks, high yield and investment grade).
Education
University of Oxford — MPhil Economics
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- Dissertation. Plain Cigarette Packaging and Its Effect on Youth Smoking Rates.
- Fields. Advanced Microeconomics (Evolutionary Game Theory, Monotone Comparative Statics), Advanced Econometrics (Panel Data, Duration Analysis, Non-Parametric Methods), Behavioural Economics, Public Economics, Theory Based Empirical Analysis.
- Awards. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Full Academic Scholarship in Economics (MPhil + DPhil).
University of Cambridge — MA Economics
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- Dissertation. Purity and Proximity: an investigation into illegal drug markets using US data.
- Fields. Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians (Real Analysis, Probability Theory, Linear Algebra), Economic Theory and Analysis, Public economics.
- Awards. Gladstone Memorial Prize 2013 in Economics (runner up for best undergraduate dissertation across economics, history and politics); Arthur Andersen Prize 2013; Sayers Prize in Economics 2012; Robert Skerne Scholarship 2011–13; College Book Prize 2011–13.
Skills
- Finance
- Financial modelling, corporate finance, capital budgeting, risk management, portfolio management, investment banking, private equity, venture capital.
- Technical
- Python, RAG pipelines, Vector databases, PostgreSQL, Docker.
- Statistics
- Probability theory, statistical inference, time series analysis, panel data, Bayesian statistics, causal inference.
- Languages
- English (native); Arabic (conversational).
- Short courses
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edX (MIT) — Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python ()
Coursera (deeplearning.ai) — Neural Networks and Deep Learning ()