Dami Osunsanya Dada

Dami Osunsanya is Director and Co-Lead of the SoftBank Opportunity Fund. In addition to sourcing and diligence, Dami leads a team focused on finding ways to help founders grow and scale to generate outsized returns. At SoftBank, she’s led ecosystem partnerships and value creation work for companies in SB’s $100B Vision Fund including WeWork, Uber, Bytedance, amongst others. She also created and launched SB’s early-stage global accelerator, Emerge, where she led the sourcing, investing and support of companies across health tech, fintech, e- commerce, edtech, and software industries, and sat on the Investment Committee. She’s invested in 12 companies from this inaugural cohort, which has now gone global. Prior to joining SoftBank, Dami helped lead Intel’s $75B Corporate Finance and Strategy team and managed an extensive fulfillment operation with more than 100 employees, filling 15,000 orders a day at McMaster-Carr. She’s also led operations and finance teams at Sprint Corporation and Kraft Foods. Dami holds a Finance and Chinese degree from Emory University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.