Founder
Yomi Onalaru
Founder & CEO.
Yomi Onalaru is a Nigerian entrepreneur, creative director, photographer and technology builder. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ONARU LIMITED, based in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Role
- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, ONARU LIMITED
- Full name
- Abayomi Onalaru
- Based in
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Official profiles
- yomionalaru.cominstagram.com/yomionalarutiktok.com/@yomionalaru
Background
From visual storytelling to operating systems.
Yomi Onalaru began his entrepreneurial journey through visual storytelling and creative production, building Yomi Visuals into a creative brand serving individuals, businesses, artists and organizations.
His work expanded beyond photography into technology and operating systems designed to help creative businesses run more efficiently — the thinking that became TRYSA and, later, ONARU OS.
Through ONARU LIMITED he builds, owns and operates businesses across software, creative technology, media, commerce and culture, with a focus on enduring companies rather than isolated projects.
Companies
Businesses founded and operated through ONARU.
Founder philosophy
Build systems. Build brands. Build people. Build for the long term.
Yomi believes the next generation of African businesses can be globally competitive when creativity is combined with technology, operational discipline and strong execution.
For media
Approved biographies.
Short bio — one line
Yomi Onalaru is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ONARU LIMITED, a Nigerian technology and venture company based in Lagos.
Medium bio — 50 words
Yomi Onalaru is a Nigerian entrepreneur, creative director and technology builder. He is the Founder and CEO of ONARU LIMITED, which builds, owns and operates businesses across software, creative technology, media, commerce and culture — including TRYSA, Yomi Visuals, YV Studios Africa, YOFA, Playbaaq and NUWA.
Full bio
Yomi Onalaru is a Nigerian entrepreneur, creative director, photographer and technology builder, and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ONARU LIMITED in Lagos, Nigeria.
He began in visual storytelling and creative production, building Yomi Visuals into a creative brand serving individuals, businesses, artists and organizations. That work led him into software: building the systems creative businesses need to operate — bookings, clients, projects, contracts, galleries and money — which became TRYSA, and later ONARU OS, the operating system ONARU runs its own companies on.
Through ONARU LIMITED he builds, owns and operates companies across software, creative technology, media, commerce and culture. His focus is enduring African companies that compete globally by combining creativity, technology and operational discipline.
Press contact
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