Impact measurement · Capital readiness · Program design
Advising the Future of Social Enterprise and Inclusive Business in Africa
A strategy and execution firm supporting private companies, public institutions, investors, and philanthropic donors.
About AxisBridge
Who We Are
AxisBridge Advisory partners with clients to unlock market opportunity and scale strategies that deliver lasting value. Based in Kenya and Nigeria, we work across commercial and impact-driven sectors to help clients navigate entry, growth, and transformation in complex markets.
We support private firms in assessing opportunities and building scalable infrastructure, and help public and philanthropic partners design high-impact initiatives — bringing cross-sector insight, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution. At our core, we translate ideas into action.
What we do
Our practices
Impact Measurement & Capital Readiness
For businesses proving impact and positioning for capital.
- Impact narrative and strategy. Defining what a business's impact truly is, validated against operations.
- Impact measurement frameworks. Indicators, data flows, and reporting cadence built to be operated.
- Impact-capital readiness. Mapping the capital a business qualifies for, and closing the gap to it.
Program Design, Funding & Delivery
For institutions building initiatives that must work at scale.
- Program design and fundraising. Full-lifecycle support from opportunity scoping through scale-up.
- Operational infrastructure for scale. Governance, team structures, and reporting workflows that scale.
- Stakeholder and coalition building. Cross-sector alignment across business, policy, and development.
Market research and intelligence. Actionable insight for investment decisions, market entry, and growth in dynamic operating environments.
Digital systems for data and coordination. Performance dashboards, monitoring systems, and workflow automation that support decisions.
Why AxisBridge
Why clients choose us
Track record
Experience behind the firm
AxisBridge is a young firm built on a long record of delivery. Our Managing Director has designed and managed programs funded by:
Selected publications
Design and pilot of a composite index scoring and ranking company performance against national standards.
How to engage commercial actors toward public-good outcomes across a fragmented industry.
Founder
About the Managing Director
Tobi Durotoye has spent over a decade building and running programs where commercial performance and public outcomes successfully worked together to sustain business and social impact. In his career he has established impact program operations from scratch, led delivery teams across eight markets in Africa and Asia, and advised company executives, regulators, and funders on the same problems from different sides of the table.
That work has included impact rating systems that companies continue to adopt. Working with industry partners, associations, and regulators, he designed and scaled nutrition and ESG benchmarking initiatives across Nigeria and Kenya, taken up at majority market share and built to strengthen companies' access to markets and finance. He holds an MA in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University and a BA from Wake Forest University.
He founded AxisBridge on a simple observation: the businesses best placed to deliver impact in African markets are rarely the ones best equipped to prove it — and the programs meant to support them are rarely designed for how those markets actually work. AxisBridge exists to close both gaps.
Contact
Let's work together
- tobi@axisbridgeadvisory.com
- linkedin.com/in/tobidurotoye
- Offices
- Nairobi, Kenya · Lagos, Nigeria