Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Pittsburgh, PA (2026)

10/08/2026

Good People, I want to thank everyone for the unprecedented support the Contisx Phone has received. In the history of product launches in Nigeria, I am not sure any product has enjoyed the extraordinary goodwill we received from young Nigerian influencers who posted, discussed and shared our phone across their platforms.

At one point, Contisx Phone became the No. 1 trending topic on X - yes, Twitter! We were everywhere. To these remarkable young men and women, thank you for your incredible support.

Once the Contisx Securities Exchange begins operations, we will invite as many of you as possible to ring our opening or closing bells and spend a day at the Exchange. We have created a special room called “The Stage,” equipped with world-class acoustics in exceptional ergonomics to deliver a memorable experience. This is the capital market, and I can tell you that its future belongs to young people. The Fridays@Contisx is designed to host students, influencers, etc as we work to educate people on the capital market.

To our customers around the world, we have started shipping the phones. I must confess that we did not anticipate the scale of the response. We received orders from 9 countries, from Switzerland and the United Kingdom to the United States and South Africa. We expect to complete deliveries for the first batch of orders next week. Some in Nigeria will be done today.

Our team continues to work around the clock to ensure that, once you place an order, your phone reaches you within days. Get yours here https://contisx.com/phone/order

Contisx Phone is engineered for business. What you see on the screen is what you will receive, although some services, such as the Exchange, will remain inactive until the required regulatory licensing is completed.

Thank you for believing in this mission. We are building for Nigeria, Africa and the world.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe, PhD
Founder, ContiSX

*Contisx Phone does not support Android and iOS and uses a proprietary blockchain OS which means your typical Android/IOS apps will not work therein.

10/08/2026

Nico and the Corgi Team,
I want to commend you for the exceptional ex*****on of your mission. I received an update from Josh this morning, and I can proudly say: CONGRATULATIONS! Truly remarkable Team.

You have demonstrated extraordinary operational excellence, creating enormous value for shareholders in the process. Tekedia Capital is immensely proud of the Corgi Team.

Keep building, innovating and transforming communities. You are truly among the best in the game!

Tekedia Capital >> we make friends with the world's finest builders!

10/06/2026

The new Tekedia Capital investment cycle has begun, featuring 20 global startups across chemicals, satellite systems, nuclear energy, artificial intelligence, space technology, insurance, biotechnology and more domains.

Join our investment community and co-own innovating startups building the future: capital.tekedia.com/course/fee

In the last four months, we exited to OpenAI (Tensorpool), Vercel (Better Auth), Baseten (Blaxel), and transmuted Curo. Register and join us.

10/03/2026

Good People, on Monday, we will begin two important programmes:
- Tekedia Capital Investment Cycle: Tekedia Capital will open a new investment cycle, presenting 18-20 companies. We hope to support these businesses with capital, knowledge and other resources as they develop solutions capable of improving our world. Learn more and become part of our community: capital.tekedia.com/course/fee

- Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass: Tekedia Institute will begin the second edition of the Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass. The programme offers participants opportunities for internships within Nigeria’s capital market. The capital market commands a significant share of global economic activity, and we believe the 2030s will be a defining decade for Nigeria’s capital-market industry.

Through more than 15 practitioner-led modules, participants will gain the knowledge and practical understanding required to operate, innovate and build careers in this expanding sector. Join us and prepare for the future: school.tekedia.com/course/market

10/02/2026

I worked at one of the finest banks ever established: the peerless Diamond Bank in Lagos. It lives forever because it is diamond!

Our journey began with an intensive three-month training programme in Apapa, where the bank transformed engineers, doctors, accountants and graduates from many other disciplines into bankers. It was a remarkable experience. Diamond Bank helped me understand systems far beyond the constructs of natural philosophy I had encountered while studying engineering at FUTO.

The bank was exceptionally generous. It funded master’s programmes and supported my doctorate in banking and finance. During my doctoral studies, I focused on currency and globalisation, producing working papers for institutions including the World Bank and the African Union. You can read one of my contributions to the African single-currency debate on the African Union’s website: au.int/sites/default/files/documents/31782-doc-congress_article_volume_2.pdf.

Banking helped me understand money. But later, as I read The Economist, Forbes, Businessweek and Fortune (I subscribed to them for more than a decade), I began to appreciate a more evolutionary state of money: capital. Money ideally is a unit of capital.

Interestingly, the money we commonly discuss is not itself a factor of production. Capital is. A. O. Lawal had explained that distinction in his elementary economics textbook, but its deeper meaning became clearer to me through banking, investing and business.

If you miss the distinction between money and capital, you miss a central mechanism of the modern economy. Money stores and transfers value. Capital is deployed to build productive capacity, finance companies and create wealth. Capital markets are the theatres.

On Monday, October 5, 2026, Tekedia Institute’s Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass will begin. Over eight weeks, participants will study the following:

Module 1: Market Frictions, Nature and Mission of Companies, Capital as a Factor of Production, and Capital Markets
Module 2: Introduction to Nigeria’s Capital Market: Foundations and Architecture
Module 3: SEC Nigeria: Registration, Regulations and Market Oversight

Module 4: Market Operators: Roles, Responsibilities and Interdependencies
Module 5: Capital-Raising Instruments: IPOs, Bonds, Commercial Papers and Private Markets
Module 6: Listing Processes, Documentation and Regulatory Compliance

Module 7: Capital-Market Operations: Trading, Settlement and Surveillance
Module 8: Benefits of Listing and Capital-Market Participation
Module 9: Market Data, Analytics and Investment Research Systems
Module 10: Derivatives, Structured Products and Hedging Instruments

Module 11: Technology and Financial Market Infrastructure
Module 12: Digital Assets, Tokenisation and the ISA 2025 Framework
Module 13: Compliance, Risk Management and Ethics in Capital Markets

Module 14: Careers, Business Opportunities and Promising Regulated Sole Proprietorships
Module 15: Business Development, Market Strategy and Capital-Market Innovation
Module 16: Investment and Portfolio Management

The programme concludes with a practical capstone project.

If you want to deepen your understanding of how money becomes capital, how companies raise funds and how markets compound wealth, register here: school.tekedia.com/course/market .
Programme fee: ₦350,000 or US$500. Join us for your login.

10/01/2026

Today, I wish everyone a Happy Independence Day in Nigeria. May Nigerians rise to the mountaintop and experience the boundless promise of October 1, 1960, when the Green-White-Green was raised as the British Union Jack was lowered.

As we celebrate our political independence, we must work towards freedom from the economic paralysis holding our nation back. The promise of independence must become the rise of all Nigerians, not merely the progress of a privileged few.

On a personal level, Nigeria has worked for me. It offered many of the opportunities a young man could have desired, and for that, I remain profoundly grateful. Yet I recognize that many Nigerians cannot share the same testimony. That is why we must work harder to scale opportunity, abundance and hope across our nation.

Every Nigerian deserves independence from poverty, tribalism, nepotism and exclusion. Delivering that freedom must become our collective pursuit. Let us work towards it. Happy Independence Day, Nigeria.

09/29/2026

On October 5, 2026, the next Tekedia Capital investment cycle begins. We plan to present approximately 20 innovative companies spanning nuclear energy, satellite systems, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, space technology, software, insurance and more. Join us and co-invest in companies shaping the future: https://capital.tekedia.com/course/fee/

09/28/2026

Join us at Tekedia’s Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass to understand how money becomes capital, and how wealth grows, compounds and scales across communities and nations.

People build. Companies raise capital. Investors participate. Prosperity expands and is shared. This powerful mechanism defines the capital market, one of the most catalytic systems ever created for transforming economies and advancing nations.

Tekedia Nigeria Capital Market Masterclass is a practitioner-led, intensive program designed to deepen the human capabilities needed to power Nigeria’s modern capital market. The Masterclass blends applied knowledge, real-market processes, regulatory frameworks, technology infrastructure, and hands-on case studies covering the entire capital market value chain.

The program will run for 8 weeks, with assignments, simulations, and industry projects. Some participants who complete the program successfully will be provided internship opportunities within capital-market institutions in Nigeria.

Register today; we begin on Oct 5 for 8 weeks with live Zoom sessions on Saturdays: https://school.tekedia.com/course/market/

09/25/2026

In this business, you write tons of cheques to founders and startups. We make about 40 investments yearly. Deals happen. Exits happen. Failures exist. But I found the Blaxel team to be superbly amazing. I want to commend the team for caring for their investors.

While I cannot disclose terms of its acquisition by Baseten here, the whole thing was designed to make investors and shareholders have a great win. Guys, we appreciate that!

And Baseten, we received the share certificate today. We will be praying for an opening ringing of a bell at NASDAQ very soon! Go and win the market and do it. Tekedia Capital is excited to be part of one of the most amazing startups in the world right now.

Baseten reached a valuation of $13 billion in June 2026, driven by massive enterprise demand for AI inference infrastructure.

Valuation Milestones (from Google public search)
-June 2026 ($13 Billion): Raised a split-tranche $1.5 billion
-Series F round (valued between $11B and $13B) led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital, with Sands Capital and Wellington Management co-leading.
-January 2026 ($5 Billion): Secured a $300 million Series E round led by IVP and CapitalG, which included a $150 million investment from Nvidia.

-September 2025 ($2.15 Billion): Closed a $150 million Series D round led by BOND.
-February 2025 ($825 Million): Reached an $825 million valuation during a $75 million Series C round.
-March 2024 (~$200 Million): Valued around $200 million following its Series B round

Yes, the valuation moved from $2.15 billion in September 2025 to $13 billion in June 2026! Do not ask me where it is now!

Tekedia Capital >> we befriend the world’s finest builders on the pursuit of entrepreneurial capitalism.

09/24/2026

Good People, let me share Tekedia Mini-MBA Live and Tekedia Capital OPEN scheduled Zoom programs:

From SAP, Aderinola Oloruntoye, a zen-master and a legend on design thinking will teach a course on how to design category-king products. This is one of the most important courses in our Mini-MBA program because it focuses on the foundational element of business: “every great company has a great product or service”.
Thur, Sept 24 | 7pm-8pm WAT | Design Thinking and Innovation – Aderinola Oloruntoye – SAP | Zoom link in board

On Saturday, I will continue the lecture on the mission of firms, explaining the transduction process in markets. The core thesis is how to turn the "idea state" into "revenue state" in business, mimicking the transduction process of natural philosophy.
Sat, Sept 26 | 7pm-8.30pm WAT | Innovation Transduction: From Ideas to Revenue – Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Zoom link in board

On the same Saturday, I will explain via Tekedia Capital OPEN how we invest and what we look for in builders to support them. In next quarter, we plan to support 18-20 companies globally, writing cheques to advance human progress and prosperity. This is open and Zoom link is one on click.
Event: Tekedia Capital OPEN
Topic: The World of Abundance And What We Fund
Speaker: Ndubuisi Ekekwe
Date: Saturday, Sept 26, 2026 | Time: 4pm – 5pm WAT
Zoom link (free and open): the link is here https://www.tekedia.com/the-world-of-abundance-and-what-we-fund-tekedia-capital-open-sept-26th-4pm-wat/

Tekedia Capital OPEN begins a new investment cycle for Tekedia Capital. We welcome builders and new members here https://capital.tekedia.com/course/fee/

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