🎙️ Andela at 10: A Special Reunion Episode
Excited to celebrate 10 years of Andela on this special edition of the Invest in the Future podcast! Joined by Christina Sass, Nadayar Enegesi, and Brice Nkengsa, we reflect on the journey of Africa’s most impactful tech companies.
We discuss:
- Growing through the challenges of building a startup
- Lessons in leadership, adaptation, and scaling globally
- The future of talent, technology, and investment in Africa
We’re excited to announce the first group of advisors working with us to support the 10 startups (selected from a pool of 750+ applicants), as they prepare for Demo Day!
Big update! 🚀
We are excited to have @ojiudezue joining our accelerator program in a leadership role. Oji brings a wealth of experience from global tech companies such as Typeform, Calendly, X, and Microsoft!
Big update! 🚀
We are excited to have @ojiudezue joining our accelerator program in a leadership role. Oji brings a wealth of experience from global tech companies such as Typeform, Calendly, X, and Microsoft!
Building the YC of Africa?! Join Mstudio & @acceler_8africa co-founder Iyin Aboyeji as he shares more on this next Tuesday at 530p gmt. Register for the webinar here -> https://t.co/OKy40xYj6h…
Are you a founder in Africa focused on Data & AI, Future of Work, Digital Health, Creator Economy, Sustainability, & Retail Logistics - read on!
Learn more, apply, or nominate a startup at https://t.co/jpSY5ohGJ1
Request for startups list is out! We want founders solving a variety of challenges, but we are also keen to find you if you’re working on any of these six.
Get more details here: https://t.co/d1TPO4zYvk
Founders solving real challenges in Africa, we are looking for you! @acceler_8africa applications are open now and the program is led by two of the top operator VCs in Africa - @iaboyeji@MiaKimani !
Are you a startup founder that has been looking for a top quality accelerator program that focuses on Africa?
Well, we are looking for YOU! Applications are open now thru mid Feb, apply today! 🚀🌍
Learn more at: https://t.co/RjdfXZOvuL
Iyin Aboyeji, the co-founder of two African unicorns and founder of VC firm @anafricanfuture, is partnering with Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani, a general partner at the firm, to launch Accelerate Africa, which he describes as the “YC of Africa.”
@TechCabal
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Exclusive: Backed by $750k grant, Aboyeji and Koschitzky-Kimani are launching the YC of Africa
https://t.co/aYJvkKfmSv | Congratulations to the @anafricanfuture founders and team on this new initiative.
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji , founder of VC firm FutureAfrica @anafricanfuture , and general partner Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani @MiaKimani , are set to launch Accelerate Africa, an accelerator supported by a $750,000 USAID grant.
https://t.co/ON48hSfKqL
We helped 55 homeless children find their place in the world again.
Now they can become heroes of their own stories rather than pawns in the hands of the wrong people.
I’m glad we got to them first.
We can learn to love anyone, when we know their stories.
Area boy signing out
For the boys reconnected with their families, we had to travel for several kilometers to their villages.
We will get all of them mobile phones to stay in touch, enrol them in vocational schools and connect them with a mentor within their vicinity so they don’t relapse.
This was by far the hardest project we’ve ever had to do, but if it gives us all one more thing to believe in the face of so much hardship in our country, then it can only be worth it in the end.
Day 18.
The kids came up to me and pleaded that they didn’t want to sleep in the ghetto again. They now felt out of place.
It was time to finally go home.
So we partnered with @Childlifeline1 to reconnect them with their families and placed the orphans in shelter homes.
From the 15 year old Daniel who had to drop out of school to pick out plastic bottles from dumpsites, to Funmi a teenage mum who works with Lawma and had her first child at age 14.
Daniel hopes to become a doctor and Funmi hopes to start her own Tailoring business someday.