Aubrey Niederhoffer

Aubrey Niederhoffer is the Founder and CEO of Swoop, Africa’s first super‑app, and a Thiel Fellow recognized for his entrepreneurial vision. He began working in Africa at age 15, building recruitment and marketplace ventures before launching Swoop in Eswatini, where it quickly became the country’s largest e‑commerce platform. Aubrey later expanded operations to Nigeria, raising $7.3 million in seed funding to scale food delivery, payments, and lifestyle services. A former student of the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, he left to pursue Swoop full‑time. Aubrey is driven by a mission to unify fragmented digital markets across Africa.