Kairos Nexus Global has secured N75 million (around $50,000) in non-dilutive funding to scale its platform, aimed at helping Nigerian professionals earn in U.S. dollars by connecting them with remote employment opportunities from employers in the United States.
The investment comes through the Pava Innovation Award, with the startup also winning the Spark Impact Award, underlining early institutional confidence in its trust-first model.
Founded by Jubelo Oyeniran, a 22-year-old Ijebu-Ode native who leads strategy, growth, and financial structuring, and Ayorinde Alase, a 24-year-old technical lead, the company is building a verification-centric platform designed to reduce barriers in cross-border hiring by integrating identity checks, skill validation, escrow payment systems, and onboarding controls.
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While established marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr have expanded global hiring, Kairos argues that its model, which emphasises trust and structured engagements rather than open bidding, better meets the needs of smaller U.S. employers that cannot risk quality or reliability issues.
Kairos said structured cross-border hiring can offer U.S. startups cost savings of up to 60 percent compared with domestic recruitment, which allows firms to extend runway, accelerate product-market fit, and reinvest savings into growth.
Operating from Maryland with Nigeria as its initial talent base, the startup plans to expand into other emerging markets while building systems that make remote hiring predictable and efficient.
The funds will be used to enhance the platform’s AI-assisted vetting systems, compliance integrations, engineering infrastructure, and onboarding processes, with the company projecting annual revenue of $500,000 within the next three years, contingent on execution and demand.
For Nigerian professionals, Kairos provides a structured pathway to access dollar-denominated work, while U.S. small businesses gain an alternative to open freelancer marketplaces, the company says
