WHERE’S THE FUNDING?

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WHERE’S THE FUNDING? episodes

February 04, 2022This Healthcare Exec Turned Investor+Entrepreneur Believes That Investing in Women+Health=Wealth with Ann-Marie Hosang Archer S3 Ep.5:
Ann-Marie Hosang Archer is the founder and CEO of Mauritian-based Lignum Vitae Health Africa (LVH) and the founder of LVH International Ltd based in South Africa. Ann-Marie started LVH after 23 years in the pharmaceutical industry with Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals serving in senior leadership positions in Central America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and South Africa. She is also an angel investor with Future Females Invest (FFI).
What you will learn from this episode:
Mentorship is important for women entrepreneurs to thrive in addition to funding and FFI Angels provides both to its portfolio companies. Sharing knowledge and experience is a value-add to investing.
Not to be afraid of fundraising but the process will be hard and you have to do your research and do the work that is required to fundraise
Women +Health = Wealth and Healthy women make healthy economies
Get in touch with FFI Angels if you are an African female founder (or a non-Africa-based female founder with a business that serves the African market) looking for seed capital, business, and moral support to help you grow and scale your business.
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31 min
January 28, 2022With Support From The Right Investors This Entrepreneur is Helping Low Income People Avoid a Debt Trap with Raeesa Gabriels S3 Ep.4
Raeesa Gabriels is the CEO & Co-Founder of Level Finance, a South African fintech focusing on earned wage access that builds wealth and dignity for employees through savings, automated budgeting, and access to pay when they need it - all before payday arrives. Level Finance is a B2B platform that works with employers to offer employees access to their earned but unpaid income. Earned wage access is shown to positively impact worker productivity, employer brand, and job retention. Raeesa talks about why she chose angel investors Future Females Invest (FFI) as investment partners at this stage of her entrepreneurship journey vs. a larger fund.
What you will learn from this episode:
Why Raeesa started Level Finance.
Why Raeesa accepted investment from FFI Angels when other offers were on the table.
How FFI Angels support women founders and how to become an angel investor if you are also interested in playing in a role in bridging the gender funding gap.
Contact FFI Angels if you are an African female founder (or a non-Africa-based female founder with a business that serves the African market) looking for seed capital, business, and moral support to help you grow and scale your business.
Guest Contact: Raeesa Gabriels on LinkedIn. Instagram: levelfinancesa
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/levelfinancesa/ Website: www.levelfinance.co.za
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39 min
January 21, 2022This Marketer+Investor is Helping Portfolio Companies Increase Marketing Results with Chen Hindi S3 Ep.3
Chen Hindi is the Co-Founder & Head of Digital at Quantum, Trainer for Digital Marketing, and Angel Investor. Since 2015, she serves as head of Digital at Quantum helping businesses in Mauritius and overseas to create and improve their visibility over the internet. She joined FFI Angels to empower women entrepreneurs in Africa and supports the startups she invests in via sharing her knowledge and experience as a digital marketer.
What you will learn from this episode:
Founders should look for investors who can help them well beyond just investing money but also provide wrap-around advising and networking assistance to help them and the business grow.
How Chen uses her digital/online marketing expertise to help portfolio companies.
Chen's tips on how founders can leverage social media and the difference in how to make connections online vs. in real life.
Simple things an overwhelmed early-stage founder without a full team can do right now to improve their and the companys digital presence.
Contact FFI Angels if you are an African female founder (or a non-Africa-based female founder with a business that serves the African market) looking for seed capital, business, and moral support to help you grow and scale your business.
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53 min
January 14, 2022Despite 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
Lucia 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 worldwide. It was the first 100% fan-curated series to get an Emmy nod, becoming a back-to-back Emmy Finalist for Outstanding Interactive Programming and proving itself in the market with deep engagement, media impressions, and ROI across Mobile, Digital, TV, VR, and Live media.
What you will learn from this episode:
How Lucia and her husband were able to 3X their raise for AMP and their flagship program Take Back The Mic, when they moved from the US to Mauritius.
Bias in funding ecosystems can keep Black and underrepresented founders underfunded and keep great ideas from flourishing and impacting the world.
Learn more about AMP Global and Take Back the Mic!, which is disrupting traditional media by engaging with & amplifying great content and providing users with unprecedented access and brands insights into their audience.
How the FFI Angels are helping to bridge the funding gap for women founders.
Contact FFI Angels if you are an African female founder (or a non-Africa-based female founder with a business that serves the African market) looking for seed capital, business, and moral support to help you grow and scale your business.
Guest Contact: Lucia Brawleyon LinkedIn. Instagram: takebackthemic Website: www.amp.it
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40 min
January 07, 2022How Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem Keeps Good Businesses Out of the Market with Aysha Tegally S3 Ep. 1
Aysha 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 investments needed to grow their business.
Women themselves can act as barriers to accessing investment by not always having the confidence to ask for what they want or they feel the need to over-prepare before they make an ask compared to their male counterparts.
A system change is needed that includes more women in decision-making roles such as women on the boards of funds and in C-suites and senior positions where decisions are made and also as investors to improve the ecosystem for more women to access capital.
Women angel investors have a unique role to play by investing in more business sectors where you tend to find more women entrepreneurs such as in the beauty industry and the baby market for example.
Support that women angel investors provide goes beyond funding to help women founders connect to other sources of capital and networks that can help them and their businesses to grow.
Get in touch with FFI Angels if you are an African female founder (or a non-Africa-based female founder with a business that serves the African market) looking for seed capital, business, and moral support to help you grow and scale your business.
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27 min
October 12, 2021This 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
Omolara 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 personal and professional fulfillment, rediscover their purpose, and ultimately, achieve their vision for life, without struggle or sacrifice. Prior to founding Melanin, & Medicine, Dr.Uwemedimo worked as a board-certified pediatrician for over 15 years and professor for over a decade, mentoring women in medicine to live more fulfilled lives.
Key interview highlights:
Busyness, exhaustion, and burnout are not signs of excellence! Weathering, the effect of premature biological aging impacts Black women at a higher rate than White women. Weathering is associated with health risks and is often caused by being repeatedly exposed to social adversity and marginalization.
Omolara is helping black women doctors overcome what is called the Human Giver Syndrome - a framework for examining the inequality in the time and effort spent on childcare and housekeeping between men and women see Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle 12-week Medicine and Melanin incubator for black women in medicine to pivot from burnout into purpose and profit. Visit Melanin and Medicine to learn more.
Guest Contact: Email: [email protected] FB: @melaninmedi LI: @omolaramd Twitter: @dromolara IG: @melaninmedicineco Youtube: Website: melaninandmedicine.co
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47 min
September 28, 2021This Doctor Turned Investor Helps Healthtech Startups Connect to Capital with Dr. Loleta Robinson S2 Ep.19
PS: 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 various clients. Dr. Robinson calls on her extensive industry experience and relationships to help bring together venture capital and corporate innovation firms with appropriate healthcare startups and early-stage companies with the potential to significantly improve the quality of care. She also facilitates their collaboration via incubators, accelerators, and other entrepreneurial support organizations.
Key interview highlights:
Mistakes health tech startups make when approaching VCs for funding VC start-up evaluation criteria Advice for Healthtech startups - your technology should not disrupt physician workflow
Other non-dilutive funding options to pursue if you are not VC ready - grants and innovation hubs and accelerators. If you are in the US, think local and think State.
Some states like the State of Maryland have great support and resources for entrepreneurs.
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48 min
September 14, 2021 Learn How Unconventional Capital is Connecting Early-stage African Startups to Seed Capital with Franziska Reh S2 Ep.18
Franziska 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 entrepreneurs. Key interview highlights: The virality of the initial proposal leading to over 200 applicants signing up from a viral WhatsApp message was an indicator of a funding problem that needed the UnCap solution. Lowering investment costs to ensure that more deals can be made to fill the financing need for African entrepreneurs. You need ideas that others think are crazy to be game-changers. More bias-free funding is needed to fully unlock and unleash the potential of African entrepreneurs.
Guest Contact: Franziska Reh on LinkedIn. Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. We would love your feedback on the show and how we could improve so email us with your feedback.
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38 min
September 01, 2021Enabling Access to European VCs and Normalizing Investment into Black & PoC-led Seed-stage Tech Ventures with Jessye Bimono S2 Ep.17
Jessye 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 asset management classes in Europe. She primarily leads Audax Alliance, the capital enablement platform backbone of her fund that is enabling access to European VCs and normalizing investment allocation into Black & PoC led seed-stage tech ventures across Fintech, Media, and Software verticals. In that line of work. She is hosting the first capital enablement summit the Audax Alliance Virtual Summit | Diversity Venture Capital Allocation - France | Luxembourg | Global.
The Audax Alliance Summit sheds light on a diverse set of capital allocators from Europe and the US intentionally investing in diverse founders in these geographies.
Key interview highlights:
When looking for funding do the following:
Outbound research of the right VCs that are investing in your sector.
Look for alignment
If you are a diverse founder look for diverse fund allocators who can bring relevant experience and expertise to your business, e.g., women founders looking for women fund allocators who might have experience in their sectors
In Europe, there is a misunderstanding of the market potential for funding diverse founders specifically in France and Luxembourg which is why Jessye is raising funds to address that market opportunity.
Jessyes experience as a founder of color led her to organize the Audax Alliance to the VC fund that she is in the process of raising to capitalize diverse BIPOC founders who are solving global problems and bringing value to global consumers.
Register for free to Audax Alliance Summit, September 18th, 2021: https://bit.ly/3ghz9ha
Contact: Jessye Bimono on LinkedIn for more details.
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38 min
August 24, 2021How Lack of Succession Planning Costs Black Family Businesses and What They Can Do About It with Nike Anani S2 Ep.16
Nike 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 the table.
Key interview highlights:
It can be lonely in a NextGen leader in a family business if you dont have any peers in a similar position to share those particular struggles with in a what that they can really understand because they have also faced similar challenges Founders find it hard to let go and make room for NextGen leaders to make their mark on a business that the Founder started.
Having a succession plan for a business is not only about the financial security of the family itself but also the employees and the ecosystem created around that business such as customers and suppliers who would lose if that business were to go under if the Founder passed and there was no succession plan in place.
Succession plans take time and should be put in place as the business is being built and not at the point the Founder is ready to retire or unfortunately passes away.
Succession planning is not a transaction, it's a transition.
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