Kunbi Tinuoye is a British-born journalist and social entrepreneur based in the United States. She is the founder of Geekz Ventures, a startup pre-accelerator for underestimated early-stage founders. The program is industry-agnostic, with a focus on Media, Connectivity, Entertainment, and Mobile Technology.

Crunchbase has recognized Tinuoye as one of the ‘25 Black Entrepreneurs Making Waves.’ She currently sits on the SXSW Pitch Advisory Board and CES Conference Advisory Board. Tinuoye is a key player in the Atlanta startup ecosystem and served as a lead mentor for the Comcast NBCUniversal Farm Accelerator.

Tinuoye is also the founder of UrbanGeekz, a video-centric African-American, Latinx, and multicultural digital news platform focused on technology, science, business, and startups.

The award-winning journalist is a former correspondent for NBC’s theGrio.com. Prior to relocating, she was a senior broadcast journalist for the BBC in London. She is an international writer whose work has been published in The Daily Mail, London’s Evening Standard, Ebony.com, and The Voice newspaper.

For several years, Tinuoye served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Cambridge Alumni Magazine (CAM), which is distributed to approximately 150,000 readers globally per edition.

Tinuoye graduated from the University of Cambridge with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Social & Political Sciences. She studied a post-graduate in print journalism and is an NCTJ-qualified UK professional journalist, with credits in media law and 100 wpm shorthand.

PR Newswire has recognized UrbanGeekz as one of the Top 10 African-American news sites. Ranker currently lists UrbanGeekz as one of the top 10 tech blogs online. The list is based on traffic and influence over the subject online and has been voted on by the Ranker community and tech nerds alike