Nnamdi Emelifeonwu is the Co-founder & CEO of Definely. He started his career as a solicitor at Magic Circle law firm Freshfields where he spent 4.5 years as a Finance lawyer. At Freshfields, Nnamdi met his co-founder, Feargus, one of the few registered blind lawyers practising as a solicitor in the City. Together, they set out to discover a way to increase the accessibility of legal documents to those with visual impairments and realised their innovation had a much broader use case for anyone reading legal contracts and launched Definely.

Today, Definely counts some of the world’s leading law firms, financial institutions and multinational corporations, including Deloitte, A&O Shearman, Barclays, Ericsson and Slaughter and May as customers. Definely is a former recipient of the inaugural Google for Startups European Black Founders Fund, a Tech Nation Rising Stars Award, a KPMG Black Entrepreneurs’ Award and, more recently, was named in the top 25 of the Deloitte UK Technology Fast50. Nnamdi has previously been named a STEM Rising Star by the Black British Business Awards.

As one of the few Black Founders to have successfully raised over $10 million in funding from VCs, including a recent $7m Series A round led by Octopus Ventures, Nnamdi supports and advises people from the BAME community considering entrepreneurship.