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By Mark Fleming and Chinedu Enekwe
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The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.
Today’s guest on Venture The World, episode 7 is really an understated legend in the making, Barbara Iyayi. She started her career as an investment banker at JP Morgan in NYC to being founding member of Atlas Mara, a London Stock Exchange listed Special Purpose Acquisition Company structuring a landmark portfolio of banking companies across Africa to leading growth at one of Canada’s few unicorns at Element to launching Unicorn Growth Capital.
Barbara shares the vision she's been drawn to in her career. The ones founders must have before she invests and how she's building on her own vision in the FinTech focus fund Unicorn Growth Capital. If you've ever wanted to learn about specs or how to transition from investment banking to venture building, or to understand Africa's market for growth capital this episode is for you.
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In episode 2 of the VTW Africa season, we have @ChikaNwobi as our guest.
He is the CEO of Decagon, a distributed work software development & training firm with the mission of propelling Nigeria to become a top 10 technology service exporter in the next 10 years. His ambitions often prove out, as he’s transformed Africa’s tech landscape over the past 20 years, with 3 exits in an IPO on Nigeria’s stock exchange with MTech Communications PLC, angel investments in Africa's largest classified portals Jobberman Nigeria & Cheki Nigeria.
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In our first episode for the VTW Africa season, we have Rebecca Enonchong who describes how she expanded AppsTech to 27 countries over only 2 ½ years and 8 figure USD revenue, building AfriLabs from 10 hubs to over 200 supporting over 1 Million Entrepreneurs across #Africa to launching the ABAN's Catalyst angel matching fund.
She is the CEO of AppsTech, a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions. Many of our followers may know her Twitter handle @AfricaTechie, where she has proved herself to be fearless in discussing her political and social impact views. In addition to this, Enonchong has received many awards, such as “Global Leader for Tomorrow” from the World Economic Forum of Davos, Switzerland, “Top Female Tech Founder” from Forbes, and “One of the Most Influential Africans” in 2014, 2016 and 2017 from NewAfrican Magazine.
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The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.