Toro is a Partner, QI.Holdings - an AI focused venture building & operating company. At QI, We're partnering with Africa’s brightest entrepreneurs to build a suite of ethical AI technology businesses that will power the future. Toro has a software engineering background, and over 11 years’ experience building, advising, and investing in several technology startups, and venture capital. Most recently, he was Managing Partner, DDF.Capital (an Africa focused silicon valley venture capital fund), where he led the fund’s early investments into some of Africa’s top startups (including Paystack, Sweepsouth, Tizeti). He has traveled widely, giving keynote speeches and panel sessions at major tech events in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Africa. Toro is personally passionate about education, kids, animals, and the future. He is also an avid speed chess player, a dedicated & practicing minimalist, a self-taught piano player, speaks conversational spanish, and thinks he’s an Alien.
