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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Eric Klose manages Ground Squirrel ventures . Ground Squirrel Ventures is an angel and seed-stage investor based out of Boston M.A. with a goal to extend the resources of the Boston ecosystem to underserved markets and industries. They are currently active in Zambia, Madagascar, Haiti, Kenya, and Rwanda. Eric was an early employee at Wayfair.com , an online furniture retailer, and oversaw Sales....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Kanini Mutooni is a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan , a Venture Philanthropy institution focused on investing in global early stage entrepreneurs creating impact. She is also a Senior Adviser for Toniic , the global action network for impact investors with over 300 asset owners representing over $16b in investible wealth. Prior to this appointment, Kanini was the Director for Investment....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Vishal Agarwal started his career as an intern. He worked his way up to Senior Deals Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a Global Top 500 Senior Leader for General Electric and is currently Chairman and CEO of his private investment management firm, Full Circle Africa. He’s also an occasional guest as an angel on our Nest Live series. In his book, Give to Get a Senior Leaders guide to....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Tomi Davies is an angel investor, technology advisor and mentor. He is one of the most influential angels in early-stage funding for tech startups in Africa. A born Pan-Africanist, he has travelled city to city across Africa educating local investors on the opportunities that abound on the continent mentoring and investing in young founders. His TechnoVision syndicate invests in tech-enabled startups and....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Haresh Aswani is the Managing Director - Africa for the Tolaram group. The Tolaram Group is a family-owned Singaporean conglomerate that started out in Indonesia in 1948 before eventually setting up in Africa where it has gone on to make it’s over $1 Bn revenue in cereals, noodles, and infrastructure and most recently fintech. We sat down for an interview with Haresh to discuss his contributions....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Kiendel Burritt is an angel investor and founder of Digital Africa Investments, an investment and advisory fund focused on digitally-enabled businesses in Africa that have potential for large scale economic impact. She’s also an advisor at Financial sector Deepening Africa Investment. Kiendel will be joining us as a business angel on this week’s episode of the Nest. We sat down for a conversation....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Arnaud Ventura is the founder of Baobab Group, a leading digital financial inclusion group focusing on serving individuals, micro and small businesses in Africa and China. Founded in 2005 as MicroCred, Baobab has over 1.000.000 customers operating in Burkina Faso, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. Baobab has also developed....
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FiONA NYAWIRA NJAGI Yann LeMoel is an angel investor, global connector, and founder of the Living Labs Federation based in Singapore. After working in corporate for over 20 years, Yann quit the corporate world and instead, chose to play an active role in global sustainability. He decided to use his experience to the profit of young entrepreneurs and dedicate part of his time to advise, invest, and help raise funds to boost scale-up....
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