Prior to founding Nandi Labs, Chinedu Enekwe was the CEO of En Garde Media, an award-winning global media platform focused on uplifting black voices, reaching over 20 million monthly viewers. He began his creative journey as a performance poet and recording artist before joining the venture capital firm Exponential Creativity Ventures as a principal investing in creative tools.
He left that role to launch his own fund Passbook Ventures & Studio, an early-stage VC firm and startup studio focused on the global African community. Previously, Enekwe worked in development finance at the World Bank and OPIC, investment banking at Merrill Lynch, and fund formation and corporate securities law at Weil Gotshal and Manges.