Capital City Times
In an industry where money moves slower than opportunity, Lopsii Olagoke is rewriting the rules. As the Chief Executive Officer of Nezz, he is leading a quiet but powerful shift in how high-value transactions are executed—turning what was once a multi-day, risk-laden process into a seamless, same-day exchange.
Olagoke’s career began far from the financial centers of the world. As a programmer and research technician, he collaborated with postdoctoral researchers and professors in mathematics and computer science, building open-source geophysical modeling software later adopted by government research departments and leading oil and gas companies. This early work was not just technical—it reflected a habit of solving complex, high-stakes problems with precision and scale.
From there, Olagoke transitioned into entrepreneurship, founding a B2B SaaS platform in the home daycare niche. In less than a year, the platform scaled from zero to $90 million in transaction volume, with 15 enterprise users. The achievement mirrored the trajectories of industry leaders like Brightwheel and Procare Solution—acquired for $1.75 billion—but in a previously untouched vertical, proving Olagoke’s ability to see value where others saw nothing at all.
His entry into financial technology, however, was born from frustration. Years before cryptocurrency became mainstream, Olagoke and a few friends attempted to purchase XRP. Delays from Kraken and traditional bank wires cost them timing—and money. What should have been a straightforward transaction turned into a missed opportunity and a hard lesson: modern financial systems were not built to handle urgent, high-value transfers when timing mattered most.
But instead of turning to crypto as a solution, Olagoke envisioned something more ambitious—a regulated, banking-based alternative capable of delivering what both blockchain and traditional finance had failed to achieve: instant, safe, large-scale money movement. That vision became Nezz.
Today, Nezz stands at the forefront of luxury and high-value payments. By integrating robust KYC, automated financial vetting, and direct banking infrastructure, the platform empowers brokers, buyers, and sellers to transfer tens of millions of dollars instantly for less than a dollar. The impact is profound: deals close faster, risk is reduced, and the inefficiencies that have long plagued high-value asset transfers are finally eliminated.
For Olagoke, this is not simply about speed—it’s about trust, safety, and freedom in the movement of money at the highest levels. Nezz represents a challenge to the legacy of friction in finance and a vision of a future where even the largest transactions flow as easily as a text message. From academic labs to B2B SaaS to pioneering financial infrastructure, Olagoke’s path reflects a consistent truth: when systems fail to keep up with human ambition, he builds new ones.
