We are back! Season 3 continues with a bang, coming back to where it started for our Founding Partner, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, and the Andela 10 year reunion. Andela connects software developers with long-term job opportunities, international roles, and career coaching. Andela also offers a talent marketplace that allows companies to hire technical tale…

We are back! Season 3 teaser is with Matthew Grollnek - an independent expert on the future of work with a focus on Africa. Join our Partner, V. Chinyere Inya as they delve into the topic. Visual Capitalist article referenced during the call: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/prediction-consensus-what-the-experts-see-coming-in-2024/ Matthew is passi…

In this episode, we’ll unpack the role of DFIs in the African Venture Capital space and some of the challenges they encounter with Babacar Seck, Senior Investment Officer, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Proparco and Future Africa’s Investor Success Partner, Caleb Zipperstein. Babacar Seck is an investor and business advisor passionate about proj…

When discussing corporate governance in Africa, one crucial concern is whether to get serious about it at the early stages of a startup or later on while the company is in functional mode. It is common to invest more in it at the growth stage since, at the early stage, the founders desire the liberty of innovating and experimenting without any hind…

In this episode, Wura Kayode talks to Biola Alabi - Co-founder & General Partner at Atika Venture Capital Biola Alabi is the Co-founder & General Partner at Atika Venture Capital, a women-led venture fund providing early-stage capital in Africa. She is also an award-winning executive producer, and founder of Biola Alabi Media – a pan-African media …

In this episode, our Research Associate, Chukwuyemisi Isichei, talks to Tijan Watt - Co-founder and Managing Partner of Wuri Ventures. Tijan has enjoyed a 20-year career as both an operating entrepreneur, creating dynamic companies in Senegal and in the US, and an investor, working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Private Equity at Nigeri…

In this episode, our Principal, Peter Kisadha, talks to Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future. Mallaby is a Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) about his recently published book, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the…

In this episode, we speak to two amazing women in Venture Capital - Sabrine Chahrour, Investment Associate at Partech Africa Fund, and Ife Ojobanikan, Principal Investment Officer at Berrywood Capital - on how they started their careers in Venture Capital, their thesis in accessing great startups to invest in, and how they are eliminating the bias …

In this episode, our General Partner Iyinoluwa Aboyeji talks to Saul Klein. Saul Klein is a serial entrepreneur, operator and investor with over 25 years of experience building and exiting companies in the US, Israel and Europe. He has a passion for working with seed and early-stage businesses and the positive impact that technology can make on soc…

In this episode, our General Partner Iyinoluwa Aboyeji talks to Michael Eisenberg, General Partner at Aleph, and our Venture Partner, Caleb Zipperstein about what the African tech ecosystem can learn from the Start-Up Nation (Israel Tech Ecosystem) Aleph is an early-stage venture capital fund with $850M under management. Aleph partners with great I…

In this episode of Invest in the Future, our co-founder and Growth Partner, Olabinjo Adeniran talks to Idris Ayodeji Bello - Founding Partner, LoftyInc Capital Management and Founder, Wennovation Hub. Loftyinc is an early investor in 2 of Africa's 5 unicorns - Andela & Flutterwave and backs startups across Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region. We…

In this episode of Invest in the Future, our principal Adenike Sheriff talks to Surabhi(Ruby) Nimkar - Principal at Greenhouse Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage investor focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA regions. Ruby is primarily focused on Fintech and Enterprise Software and is actively involved in GHC’s investment decisioning, having bac…

In this episode of Invest In The Future, our co-founder Olabinjo Adeniran talks to Maya Horgan-Famodu the Founder & MD of Ingressive Capital - a $10 Million Fund 1 and $50 Million Fund 2 for early-stage African startups. Maya shares her story of trying to raise a fund in 2014 and being unable to do so but going ahead to set up Ingressive Advisory t…

In this episode of Invest In The Future, our founder Iyin Aboyeji chats with Michael Seibel - Group Partner at Y Combinator - the world's largest technology accelerator, Managing Director of YC Early Stage and co-founder of Justin.tv/Twitch and SocialCam. Michael shares his philosophy for investing in startups as an angel as well as YC's philosophy…

In this episode of Invest In The Future, we chat with Nadayar Enegesi - co-founder of software developer training and recruitment company Andela. Nadayar is now founder of Eden Life - a startup that provides concierge services for homes in Nigeria. Nadayar talks about discovering math after high school, studying Computer Science at the University o…

In this episode, we speak with Yele Bademosi - founder of social cryptocurrency app Bundle Africa & founding partner of early-stage Africa-focused VC firm, Microtraction. Yele discusses his journey from medicine to technology - learning design, code, marketing and eventually venture capital. We also discuss the opportunity for crypto to transform A…

For women’s month, we hosted Sacha Haider(Principal at Global Ventures), Harriet Adinkrah (Investment Analyst at 4DX Ventures), Nina Chen (Venture Investing at the Raba Partnership) and Chidinma I. Iwueke (Partner at Microtraction). Moderating the session is Damilola Aderinto(Operating Partner at Future Africa). The panel of women VCs and Angel inv…

In this episode, we host Odunayo Eweniyi. Odun is the co-founder and COO of Piggyvest - the largest savings and investments app in Nigeria. She's also the founder of FirstCheck Africa - an early-stage venture fund signing up to $25,000 for women founders in Africa. Odun is interviewed by Adenike Sheriff the co-founder and Principal of Future Africa…

In the first episode, we host Sahil Lavingia. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad. He also runs a successful $7 million a year early-stage fund. The fund typically writes $100,000 to $250,000 cheques and has invested in HelloSign, Movable Ink, Lambda School, Figma, Clubhouse, and Haus. Sahil is interviewed by Iyin 'E' Aboyeji, the founder of Fu…