WHERE’S THE FUNDING?
223 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -The WHERE’S THE FUNDING? podcast demystifies entrepreneurship and the fog around funding for Black and other underserved entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs share their entrepreneurship journeys, fundraising experiences, and success connecting to capital to inform, motivate, and inspire other entrepreneurs on a similar journey. WTF? features interviews with investors, people who work in corporate philanthropy, grant-making, marketing, and public relations (PR). Listeners gain practical strategies, tips and actionable advice for securing funding, insights into successful fundraising strategies, guidance on navigating the funding landscape, building resilience as an entrepreneur and marketing and PR strategies to get your business seen, attract customers and generate revenues!
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S3 Ep. 2: Go Where the Love and The Money Reside with Lucia Brawley
January 14, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBLucia Brawley is one of the co-Founders of AMP Global Technologies, a Digital Media platform that helps content producers build a direct relationship with their audience. The interactive mobile solution combines TV-quality content with the interactivity of social media so creators can build a direct relationship with their top fans. The “AMP-powered series”, Take Back the Mic: The World Cup of Hip Hop was the first example of how the platform made content interactive and easy to syndicate wo...
Despite Being Harvard and Yale Educated This Couple Struggled to Raise Capital Until They Moved From the US to Mauritius, Africa with Lucia Brawley S3 Ep.2
January 14, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 2.33 KBLucia Brawley is one of the co-Founders of AMP Global Technologies, a Digital Media platform that helps content producers build a direct relationship with their audience. The interactive mobile solution combines TV-quality content with the interactivity of social media so creators can build a direct relationship with their top fans. The AMP-powered series, Take Back the Mic: The World Cup of Hip Hop was the first example of how the platform made content interactive and easy to syndicate worl...
S3 Ep. 1 Overcoming Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem with Aysha Tegally
January 07, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBAysha Tegally is the co-founder of Future Females Invest and founder of FFI Angels. Future Females Invest is changing systems by providing consultancy, training, access to investment and markets, ecosystem support to African women entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, and gender empowerment advocates in public and private sector organizations. What you will learn from this episode: Mentorship is nice but women need access to capital to complement that in order for them to make the financial inve...
How Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem Keeps Good Businesses Out of the Market with Aysha Tegally S3 Ep. 1
January 07, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBAysha Tegally is the co-founder of Future Females Invest and founder of FFI Angels. Future Females Invest is changing systems by providing consultancy, training, access to investment and markets, ecosystem support to African women entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, and gender empowerment advocates in public and private sector organizations. What you will learn from this episode: Mentorship is nice but women need access to capital to complement that in order for them to make the financial inve...
How Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem Keeps Good Businesses Out of the Market with Aysha Tegally S3 Ep. 1
January 07, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes - 1.58 KBAysha Tegally is the co-founder of Future Females Invest and founder of FFI Angels. Future Females Invest is changing systems by providing consultancy, training, access to investment and markets, ecosystem support to African women entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, and gender empowerment advocates in public and private sector organizations. What you will learn from this episode: Mentorship is nice but women need access to capital to complement that in order for them to make the financial inve...
S2 Episode 20: Money, Medicine and Melanin: Swerving Burnout and Finding Purpose with Omolara Uwemedimo
October 12, 2021 23:51 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBOmolara Thomas Uwemedimo is an empowerment coach, career transition strategist, and CEO of Melanin & Medicine. In less than 12 months, she built Melanin & Medicine into a successful, multi-six-figure company that provides support, strategy & skills to help Black women physicians pivot into purpose-led careers & businesses & live more fulfilled & integrated lives. As a career transition strategist, she provides women with culturally informed strategies and systems to reduce burnout, achieve p...
This Doctor Grew Her First-Year Business to 6-figures Helping Black Female Physicians Swerve Burnout and Find Purpose with Dr. Omolara Uwemedimo S2 Ep.20
October 12, 2021 23:51 - 46 minutes - 2.72 KBOmolara Thomas Uwemedimo is an empowerment coach, career transition strategist, and CEO of Melanin & Medicine. In less than 12 months, she built Melanin & Medicine into a successful, multi-six-figure company that provides support, strategy & skills to help Black women physicians pivot into purpose-led careers & businesses & live more fulfilled & integrated lives. As a career transition strategist, she provides women with culturally informed strategies and systems to reduce burnout, achieve p...
This Doctor Turned Investor Helps Healthtech Startups Connect to Capital with Dr. Loleta Robinson S2 Ep.19
September 28, 2021 12:07 - 47 minutes - 2.78 KBPS: This audio is from a Live session on Fishbowl so pardon any audio issues. Dr. Loleta Robinson is a seasoned physician entrepreneur, startup advisor, venture partner with extensive healthcare technology and services expertise. She is the Founder and Principal of Fortis Industries, LLC, a firm specializing in blending data analytics, due diligence, and a strong industry network to identify and evaluate prospective healthcare investment, in-licensing, and partnership opportunities for vari...
Untitled EpisodeThis Doctor Turned Investor Helps Healthtech Startups Connect to Capital with Dr. Loleta Robinson S2 Ep.19
September 28, 2021 12:07 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBPS: This audio is from a Live session on Fishbowl so pardon any audio issues. Dr. Loleta Robinson is a seasoned physician entrepreneur, startup advisor, venture partner with extensive healthcare technology and services expertise. She is the Founder and Principal of Fortis Industries, LLC, a firm specializing in blending data analytics, due diligence, and a strong industry network to identify and evaluate prospective healthcare investment, in-licensing, and partnership opportunitie...
S2 Ep. 19: Where’s The Funding for Health-tech Startups? with Dr. Loleta Robinson
September 28, 2021 12:07 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBPS: This audio is from a Live session on Fishbowl so pardon any audio issues. Dr. Loleta Robinson is a seasoned physician entrepreneur, startup advisor, venture partner with extensive healthcare technology and services expertise. She is the Founder and Principal of Fortis Industries, LLC, a firm specializing in blending data analytics, due diligence, and a strong industry network to identify and evaluate prospective healthcare investment, in-licensing, and partnership opportunities for var...
S2 Ep. 18: How Unconventional Capital is Disrupting the VC Capital Allocation Game with Franziska Reh
September 14, 2021 20:35 - 37 minutes - 26 MBFranziska Reh is the CEO & Co-Founder of Uncap, a German fintech focusing on early-stage investing in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, Franziska Co-Founded Uncap, to revolutionize access to funding for early-stage entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Uncap raised an undisclosed 7-figure funding round to test its data-driven, automated, and remote investment platform and so far invested in 27 entrepreneurs in 8 different countries. Over the next 10 years, UnCap wants to invest 1 billion in 50,000...
Learn How Unconventional Capital is Connecdting Early-stage African Startups to Seed Capital with Franziska Reh S2 Ep.18
September 14, 2021 20:35 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBFranziska Reh is the CEO & Co-Founder of Uncap, a German fintech focusing on early-stage investing in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, Franziska Co-Founded Uncap, to revolutionize access to funding for early-stage entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Uncap raised an undisclosed 7-figure funding round to test its data-driven, automated, and remote investment platform and so far invested in 27 entrepreneurs in 8 different countries. Over the next 10 years, UnCap wants to invest 1 billion ...
Learn How Unconventional Capital is Connecting Early-stage African Startups to Seed Capital with Franziska Reh S2 Ep.18
September 14, 2021 20:35 - 37 minutes - 2.22 KBFranziska Reh is the CEO & Co-Founder of Uncap, a German fintech focusing on early-stage investing in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, Franziska Co-Founded Uncap, to revolutionize access to funding for early-stage entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Uncap raised an undisclosed 7-figure funding round to test its data-driven, automated, and remote investment platform and so far invested in 27 entrepreneurs in 8 different countries. Over the next 10 years, UnCap wants to invest 1 billion in 50,000...
S2 Ep. 17:Expanding Access to VC Funding for Black and POC Founders in France and Luxembourg with Jessye Bimono
September 01, 2021 17:29 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBJessye Mouangué Bimono is the CEO & co-founder of Stark Ai LABS a Design & Software development company enabling small and medium-size businesses digital transformation. A tech entrepreneur turned emerging fund manager out of the challenges she alongside diverse tech founders experienced in raising capital in France and Luxembourg. As an emerging fund manager at Audax Ventures, a $15 million upcoming fund, Jessye believes that diverse tech entrepreneurs are the most untapped and undeserved ...
Enabling Access to European VCs and Normalizing Investment into Black & PoC-led Seed-stage Tech Ventures with Jessye Bimono S2 Ep.17
September 01, 2021 17:29 - 37 minutes - 2.21 KBJessye Mouangu Bimono is the CEO & co-founder of Stark Ai LABS a Design & Software development company enabling small and medium-size businesses digital transformation. A tech entrepreneur turned emerging fund manager out of the challenges she alongside diverse tech founders experienced in raising capital in France and Luxembourg. As an emerging fund manager at Audax Ventures, a $15 million upcoming fund, Jessye believes that diverse tech entrepreneurs are the most untapped and undeserved a...
S2 Ep. 16: Building Business Legacy with Nike Anani
August 24, 2021 04:10 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBNike Anani is a Speaker, Author, and Consultant to NextGens that seeks to lead their Family Businesses. She helps NextGens rise above operations into a non-executive board role with credibility, so that they are able to lead and formulate a plan to future-proof the business, becoming more effective change agents. Nike fuses her inside experience as a NextGen executive in her Family’s Enterprise, as a Chartered Accountant, and as a Family Business Advisor to bring practical proven solutions t...
S2 Ep. 16: What Lack of Legacy Planning is Costing Black Family Businesses with Nike Anani
August 24, 2021 04:10 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBNike Anani is a Speaker, Author, and Consultant to NextGens that seeks to lead their Family Businesses. She helps NextGens rise above operations into a non-executive board role with credibility, so that they are able to lead and formulate a plan to future-proof the business, becoming more effective change agents. Nike fuses her inside experience as a NextGen executive in her Family’s Enterprise, as a Chartered Accountant, and as a Family Business Advisor to bring practical proven solutions t...
How Lack of Succession Planning Costs Black Family Businesses and What They Can Do About It with Nike Anani S2 Ep.16
August 24, 2021 04:10 - 36 minutes - 2.16 KBNike Anani is a Speaker, Author, and Consultant to NextGens that seeks to lead their Family Businesses. She helps NextGens rise above operations into a non-executive board role with credibility, so that they are able to lead and formulate a plan to future-proof the business, becoming more effective change agents. Nike fuses her inside experience as a NextGen executive in her Familys Enterprise, as a Chartered Accountant, and as a Family Business Advisor to bring practical proven solutions to...
One of Africa's Top Investors is Backing Founders Turning Africa’s Biggest Challenges into Global Businesses with Adenike Sheriff S2 Ep.15
August 10, 2021 17:43 - 44 minutes - 2.6 KBAdenike Sheriff is a VC investor, Co-founder, and Principal at Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching, and community for mission-driven innovators building an African Future where purpose and prosperity are within everyones reach. Future Africa is helping early-stage entrepreneurs solve some of Africas most pressing problems. Other co-founders include Iyinola Aboyeji, co-founder of Flutterwave (Fintech company), and Andela (a tech talent sourcing company). Key interview h...
S2 Ep. 15: Identifying and Investing in High-Potential Founders with Adenike Sheriff
August 10, 2021 17:43 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBAdenike Sheriff is a VC investor, Co-founder, and Principal at Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching, and community for mission-driven innovators building an African Future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach. Future Africa is helping early-stage entrepreneurs solve some of Africa’s most pressing problems. Other co-founders include Iyinola Aboyeji, co-founder of Flutterwave (Fintech company), and Andela (a tech talent sourcing company). Key intervie...
With Limited Funding This Young Kenyan Launched an Ed-tech Startup that is Transforming Kenyan Education with Kiko Muuo S2 Ep.14
July 30, 2021 17:15 - 29 minutes - 1.71 KBKiko founded Angaza Elimu as an inspiration on his personal education journey. Having gone through the same education system he has a clear understanding of the first-hand challenges that exist for young Kenyans and he is committed to addressing the challenges by implementing innovative ways of learning and teaching Key interview highlights: Ed-tech only received 4.3% of the $305 million in investor funding that went to Kenya last year mostly to fintech, e-commerce, and health-tech. COVID...
S2 Ep. 14: How Ed-Tech is Solving Old and New Challenges in Kenya in the COVID Era with Kiko Muuo
July 30, 2021 17:15 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBKiko founded Angaza Elimu as an inspiration on his personal education journey. Having gone through the same education system he has a clear understanding of the first-hand challenges that exist for young Kenyans and he is committed to addressing the challenges by implementing innovative ways of learning and teaching Key interview highlights: Ed-tech only received 4.3% of the $305 million in investor funding that went to Kenya last year mostly to fintech, e-commerce, and health-tech. COVID...
S2 Ep. 14: Using Ed-Tech in Kenya to Solve Old and New Challenges in the COVID Era with Kiko Muuo
July 30, 2021 17:15 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBKiko founded Angaza Elimu as an inspiration on his personal education journey. Having gone through the same education system he has a clear understanding of the first-hand challenges that exist for young Kenyans and he is committed to addressing the challenges by implementing innovative ways of learning and teaching Key interview highlights: Ed-tech only received 4.3% of the $305 million in investor funding that went to Kenya last year mostly to fintech, e-commerce, and health-tech. COVID...
S2 Ep. 14: How This Ed-tech Company is Helping Kenyan Schools Impacted by COVID with Kiko Muuo
July 30, 2021 17:15 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBKiko founded Angaza Elimu as an inspiration on his personal education journey. Having gone through the same education system he has a clear understanding of the first-hand challenges that exist for young Kenyans and he is committed to addressing the challenges by implementing innovative ways of learning and teaching Key interview highlights: Ed-tech only received 4.3% of the $305 million in investor funding that went to Kenya last year mostly to fintech, e-commerce, and health-tech. COVID...
S2 Ep. 14: Elevating Ed-Tech in The COVID Era of Online Schooling with Kiko Muuo
July 30, 2021 17:15 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBKiko founded Angaza Elimu as an inspiration on his personal education journey. Having gone through the same education system he has a clear understanding of the first-hand challenges that exist for young Kenyans and he is committed to addressing the challenges by implementing innovative ways of learning and teaching. As a CEO Kiko is responsible for overall strategy, innovation, and operations. He is utilizing his business modeling, market research & analysis, and product management skills ...
S2 Ep.13: How To Build A Real Estate Empire Without Financing With Jantzen Young
July 13, 2021 13:24 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBJantzen Young is a real estate expert with a passion for helping investors build businesses that promote time freedom and financial stability. Jantzen spent 14 years in financial services traveling the country teaching thousands of clients how to adopt technology to optimize, digitize and grow their advisory businesses. While she watched her colleagues flourish, she lacked that financial security in her own life. That’s when Jantzen discovered the power of passive income. Once she did, she g...
Real Estate Investor Teaches People How to Buy Vacant Land With No Financing with Jantzen Young S2 Ep.13
July 13, 2021 13:24 - 42 minutes - 2.49 KBJantzen Young is a real estate expert with a passion for helping investors build businesses that promote time freedom and financial stability. Jantzen spent 14 years in financial services traveling the country teaching thousands of clients how to adopt technology to optimize, digitize and grow their advisory businesses. While she watched her colleagues flourish, she lacked that financial security in her own life. Thats when Jantzen discovered the power of passive income. Once she did, she gr...
S2 Ep. 12: How Future Females Invest is Closing the Financing Gap for African Women with Torera Abiola and Aysha Tegally
June 30, 2021 12:30 - 42 minutes - 29 MBAysha Tegally and Torera (Tori) Abiola are the co-founders of Future Females Invest. Both Aysha and Tori came together around the lack of access to finance for African female founders. In 2019 Future Females Invest merged with Tori’s WOWe (Women of West Africa Entrepreneurs) to become truly Pan-African; financially empowering and enabling African female founders. Future Females Invest is changing systems by providing consultancy, training, access to investment and markets, ecosystem support...
These Angel Investors Created are Investing in African Women Building Profitable and Scalable Businesses with Torera Abiola and Aysha Tegally S2 Ep.12
June 30, 2021 12:30 - 42 minutes - 2.47 KBAysha Tegally and Torera (Tori) Abiola are the co-founders of Future Females Invest. Both Aysha and Tori came together around the lack of access to finance for African female founders. In 2019 Future Females Invest merged with Toris WOWe (Women of West Africa Entrepreneurs) to become truly Pan-African; financially empowering and enabling African female founders. Future Females Invest is changing systems by providing consultancy, training, access to investment and markets, ecosystem support t...
Entrepreneur Helps Women Producers Connect to Markets and Increase Incomes with Comfort Adjahoe-Jennings S2 Ep.11
June 16, 2021 10:18 - 40 minutes - 2.39 KBComfort Adjahoe-Jennings is an entrepreneur in Ghana and CEO of the fair trade social enterprise, Ele Agbe Co. that works with shea butter producers and recycled glass bead jewelry artisans to find markets for their products. Ele Agbe produces a variety of body creams, soaps, lotion bars, body oils, and lip balms from shea butter that are exported to the US, UK, Canadian and Japanese markets. Comfort is also the President of the African Women's Entrepreneurship Program, (AWEP) West Africa Re...
S2 Ep. 11: Promoting Entrepreneurship and African Women's Economic Empowerment with Comfort Adjahoe-Jennings
June 16, 2021 10:18 - 40 minutes - 28 MBComfort Adjahoe-Jennings is an entrepreneur in Ghana and CEO of the fair trade social enterprise, Ele Agbe Co. that works with shea butter producers and recycled glass bead jewelry artisans to find markets for their products. Ele Agbe produces a variety of body creams, soaps, lotion bars, body oils, and lip balms from shea butter that are exported to the US, UK, Canadian and Japanese markets. Comfort is also the President of the African Women's Entrepreneurship Program, (AWEP) West Africa Re...
S2 Ep.10: How SayeTech is Mechanizing Solutions for Africa’s Smallholder Farmers with Jeffrey Appiagyei
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBJeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a r...
S2 Ep. 10: How SayeTech is Mechanizing Solutions for Africa’s Smallholder Farmers with Jeffrey Appiagyei
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBJeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in ...
Young Ghanaian Engineer Designed a Machine That Helps Rural Farmers + Keeps Students In Classrooms with Jeffrey Appiagyei S2 Ep.10
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 52 minutes - 3.06 KBJeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a...
S2 Ep. 9: How Kwidex (Crowd Funding Platform) is Helping to Bridge the Financing Gap for Agri-SMEs in Ghana
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBSeyram Kofi Mantey (CEO) of Kwidex is a young, energetic, and consummate entrepreneur experienced in running small businesses ranging from branding, lending, imports, and crowdfunding. Eugene Ofori Asiedu (CTO) is a computer science and software developer experienced in building applications. Seyram and Eugene came together to create Kwidex, Ghana's biggest agricultural crowdfunding platform that gives everyday people an opportunity to own part of the value in agriculture. Key interview hi...
College Friends Created a Crowdfunding Platform That Helps Smallholder Farmers Raise Financing with Seyram Kofi Mantey + Eugene Ofori Asiedu S2 Ep.9
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 47 minutes - 2.77 KBSeyram Kofi Mantey (CEO) of Kwidex is a young, energetic, and consummate entrepreneur experienced in running small businesses ranging from branding, lending, imports, and crowdfunding. Eugene Ofori Asiedu (CTO) is a computer science and software developer experienced in building applications. Seyram and Eugene came together to create Kwidex, Ghana's biggest agricultural crowdfunding platform that gives everyday people an opportunity to own part of the value in agriculture. Key interview hig...
The Black Opportunity Cost for Black Entrepreneurs with Tinotenda Chibebe S2 Ep. 8
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 38 minutes - 2.25 KBTinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complexs Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is ab...
S2 Ep. 8: The Black Opportunity Cost: Lack of Diversity in Global Venture Capital with Tinotenda Chibebe
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBTinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complex’s Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is...
S2 Ep. 8: The Black Opportunity: Global Venture Capital with Tinotenda Chibebe
May 23, 2021 19:49 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBTinotenda Chibebe is the author of The Black Opportunity: Conversations on Belgian Venture Capital and Afropean Entrepreneurship that explores how the inclusion of black voices in the venture capital space will shape the world for generations to come. Tino has also written articles on Medium and for Complex’s Greenlabel. He works on projects geared to advancing underdeveloped regions, regarding education and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key interview highlights: The Black Opportunity is abo...
WHERE’S THE FUNDING Trailer
April 19, 2021 14:33 - 37 seconds - 37 BytesWHERES THE FUNDING chronicles entrepreneurship, the funding challenges faced by Black entrepreneurs, and demystifies the fog around funding.
S2 Ep. 7: Why the African Startup Ecosystem Needs Angel Investors with Umulinga Karangwa
April 18, 2021 23:54 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBUmulinga Karangwa is a Rwandese Fund Manager and Investment Advisor with 17 years of experience in financial services with a focus on investments in Africa. Over the past 13 years, Umulinga has raised and managed funds investing in Africa for different asset classes and is passionate about developing African capital markets and home-grown asset managers on the continent. Key interview highlights: All investors take risks, but in different aspects and degrees; Private equities take a cal...
How Female Founders Can Use Gender Bias to Their Advantage with Umulinga Karangwa S2 Ep.7
April 18, 2021 23:54 - 38 minutes - 2.25 KBUmulinga Karangwa is a Rwandese Fund Manager and Investment Advisor with 17 years of experience in financial services with a focus on investments in Africa. Over the past 13 years, Umulinga has raised and managed funds investing in Africa for different asset classes and is passionate about developing African capital markets and home-grown asset managers on the continent. Key interview highlights: All investors take risks, but in different aspects and degrees; Private equities take a calcul...
How Female Founders Can Use Gender Bias to Their Advantage with Umulinga Karangwa S2 Ep.7
April 18, 2021 23:54 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBUmulinga Karangwa is a Rwandese Fund Manager and Investment Advisor with 17 years of experience in financial services with a focus on investments in Africa. Over the past 13 years, Umulinga has raised and managed funds investing in Africa for different asset classes and is passionate about developing African capital markets and home-grown asset managers on the continent. Key interview highlights: All investors take risks, but in different aspects and degrees; Private equities take a cal...
From Vegan Restaurant Owner to Nigeria's First Plant-Based Food Tech Company with Hakeem Jimo S2 Ep.6
April 18, 2021 23:50 - 50 minutes - 2.95 KBHakeem Jimo is a Vegan entrepreneur who co-founded VeggieVictory together with Bola Adeyanju - Nigeria's pioneer plant-based restaurant turned food company. VeggieVictory started in 2013 as a restaurant, before introducing VegChunks, the first commercially produced meat substitute in Nigeria, which emanated from the urge to provide for vegan needs, and now available in QSR in Nigeria and many other stores nationwide. VegChunks is a food option for people prone to non-communicable diseases, t...
S2 Ep. 6: How Veggie Victory Is Leading the Vegan Movement in Nigeria with Hakeem Jimo
April 18, 2021 23:50 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBHakeem Jimo is a Vegan entrepreneur who co-founded VeggieVictory together with Bola Adeyanju - Nigeria's pioneer plant-based restaurant turned food company. VeggieVictory started in 2013 as a restaurant, before introducing VegChunks, the first commercially produced meat substitute in Nigeria, which emanated from the urge to provide for vegan needs, and now available in QSR in Nigeria and many other stores nationwide. VegChunks is a food option for people prone to non-communicable diseases, t...
Fund Manager Turned Entrepreneur Scaled a Beauty Business + Is Raising an Art Fund for Artists with Freda Isingoma S2 Ep.5
April 18, 2021 23:44 - 53 minutes - 3.14 KBFreda Isingoma is the founder of Eye Candy Brow and Lash Bar and the founder and CEO of KIISA, LLC. Freda is an entrepreneur and ex-investment banking professional who has worked in multinational and leading investment institutions in London, New York, and Cape Town. She has experience in establishing successful business initiatives as well as managing investment funds. This includes her role as a venture capitalist for an award-winning team at Close Brothers Group (UK) and an African Invest...
S2 Ep. 5: Building a Scalable Business and the Value of Black Art with Freda Isingoma
April 18, 2021 23:44 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBFreda Isingoma is the founder of Eye Candy Brow and Lash Bar and the founder and CEO of KIISA, LLC. Freda is an entrepreneur and ex-investment banking professional who has worked in multinational and leading investment institutions in London, New York, and Cape Town. She has experience in establishing successful business initiatives as well as managing investment funds. This includes her role as a venture capitalist for an award-winning team at Close Brothers Group (UK) and an African Inves...
S2 Ep. 4: Why Baylis Capital Invests in African Countries Investors Avoid with Franklin Amoo
April 18, 2021 23:37 - 1 hour - 44 MBFranklin Olakunle Amoo is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Baylis Emerging Markets. As an active investor in a number of operating companies across Africa, Franklin serves on the boards of several African companies. Prior to co-founding Baylis, Franklin helped lead the Strategic Credit Group the $1.8 trillion Mizuho Financial Group, where he helped establish the High Yield sales and trading, secondary loan trading, structured finance, and asset finance businesses. Franklin worked at ...
Private Equity Firm Is Going Against the Grain to Invest in African Countries Most Investors Avoid with Franklin Akunli Amoo S2 Ep.4
April 18, 2021 23:37 - 1 hour - 3.75 KBFranklin Olakunle Amoo is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Baylis Emerging Markets. As an active investor in a number of operating companies across Africa, Franklin serves on the boards of several African companies. Prior to co-founding Baylis, Franklin helped lead the Strategic Credit Group the $1.8 trillion Mizuho Financial Group, where he helped establish the High Yield sales and trading, secondary loan trading, structured finance, and asset finance businesses. Franklin worked at ...
S2 Ep. 3: The Promise and Challenges of Youth Entrepreneurship with Violet Nyando
April 18, 2021 23:33 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBViolet Nyando is an Agricultural Innovation Expert with over 15 years of experience in Agribusiness Advisory Services and Agricultural Rural Innovations Studies with a particular interest in Youth Entrepreneurship, Governance, and Leadership of Agri-Enterprises. Her experience in Kenya and Eastern Africa and engagement with International Development Practitioners across the World have earned her a deeper understanding of the African Agricultural and Community Landscape. Key interview highli...