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In today’s episode, we speak with Patricia Rinke, an investor at AfricInvest about the introduction of international capital to Africa, the key ingredients of a vibrant, innovative startup ecosystem across the continent, and advice for African entrepreneurs wanting to raise capital from VCs.
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In this episode, we speak with Itoro Inoyo and Jennie Nwokoye and of Clafiya, a startup working to expand access to affordable, quality primary health care.
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In this episode, we spoke to Karl Carter, Snake Nation's CEO, about the African creator space, its connection to culture, and its role in Africa's future economy.
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In this episode, we speak to Nitin Gajria, Managing Director - Sub-Saharan Africa at Google about how the company is increasing its intuition of Africa, helping grow the tech sector and expanding the supply of developers on the continent.
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In this episode, we explore marketing strategies from an investor perspective - what works, what doesn’t work, and other useful insights from a VC. Our guest today is Jessica Fortune Oguh of Ingressive Capital.
Highlights
💬 Telling your story and simplifying your pitch
👥 The importance of user groups when building communities and a userbase 
👍 The importance of user testimonials for gaining trust and credibility
📅 The need to have a well-thought-out marketing strategy that can be tested and improved upon
🎧 Talking to users and listening to them to help iterate your product
📣 Leveraging social media to build a brand and engage with users (current and potential)
🔭 Find where your audience is online, where they hang out
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With recent announcements of new early-stage venture funds entering the African landscape and the ecstatic response from the continent’s tech space, one may believe this to be a rare occasion.
But it’s not.
Rather, venture capital has consistently grown over the past few years, ramping up from US$400 million in 2015 to US$2.02 billion in 2019.
So why do so many people have the impression that the African tech sector lacks capital?
Perhaps it’s not that many people actually know what’s going on in the Africa tech sector — and this appears to be part of a broader problem that plagues Africa; lack of data.
Highlights
📱 How lack of data impacts the tech sector
📃 Legislative consequences of insufficient data
🏗️ Building better data infrastructure
📊 Market-based solutions
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