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Mariam Jimoh

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Mariam Jimoh

Full Name: Mariam Jimoh

Born: England

Occupation: Businessperson

Job: Founder, CEO

Works for: Oja Global Ltd

Primary Industry: Retail

Nationality: British

Residence: London, England, United Kingdom

Mariam Jimoh is the founder and CEO of Oja, a grocery delivery service that picks up & delivers produce from local ethnic grocery stores to customers. According to Crunchbase the company has raise a total of $3 millions in funding. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 20, 2023 from a Pre-Seed round.

Ms. Jimoh's mission is to unlock game-changing value in underrepresented groups through technology and community. Whilst studying for an undergraduate degree she founded WCAN, a marketplace & network for the professional development of black women in the UK.

Ms. Jimoh is a UCL graduate and has previously worked as an M&A Banker at Rothschild & Co., before founding Oja in October 2019. Ms. Jimoh was honored in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Technology list.

Work Experience

  • Founder, CEO, Oja Global Ltd

    Using her strategic insight with her business acumen, Ms. Jimoh founded Oja, the app transforming access to cultural groceries for households across the UK. She is building the UK's first venture-backed digital supermarket for cultural communities.

  • Founder, Director, WCAN

    WCAN is a marketplace & network for the professional development of black women in the UK.

  • Strategist, accelerateHER

  • Investment Banker, Rothschild & Co

  • Strategy & Fundraising, TouchFX

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst, Citi

  • Sales Summer Analyst, Thomson Reuters

  • Next Generation Women Leader, McKinsey & Company

Education

  • BSc, Biomedical Sciences, University College London, 2015

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine, University College London, 2012

Accolades

  • 30 Under 30 - Europe - Technology, Forbes.com, 2021;

  • Next Generation Women Leader, McKinsey & Company, 2014;

Related Links

  • LinkedIn

  • Twitter.com: @TheArtofMariam

  • Instagram: @theartofmariam

  • Alumni Spotlight: Mariam Jimoh, Founder and CEO of Oja What inspired you to start your own business? For me, it’s always been about solving a problem. I like to get things done so if I feel strongly about a problem, I think "How can I fix this? And is this a problem other people are facing as well?" I started my first business at UCL while I was undertaking internships. When I’d get to the organisations, I would never see people who looked like me, so I thought there should be some form of support or network for Black women who want to go into the corporate world so they wouldn't feel how I felt – like there wasn’t a place for me here when of course there should be.

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