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Helping innovative tech-enabled African founders find the right partners & investors to fund & grow their startup, following their success every step of the way

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The signing is the photo. The work is everything before and after it.

@TomiDee at the World Business Angels Investment Forum

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Investing alone means betting on your own judgement every time.

In a syndicate, the deal gets looked at by people who know the sector better than you do.

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Nobody tells you this part. Starting a company does not remove your boss. It multiplies them.

Customers, employees, investors, partners. All of them now depend on your decisions.

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Founders who raise often spend first and diagnose later.

@TomiDee on why that order is backwards

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@TomiDee in Supa Strikas gear.

His first major exit. Proof that conviction in an unusual opportunity pays

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Every business eventually has to answer these four questions.

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More than two decades of building.

What started as @TomiDee’s belief that Africa needed stronger founders and better investors is now a focused machine for two things, getting founders fundable and staying with them after.

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How does Nigeria become a technology leader?

@TomiDee starts somewhere unglamorous, the problems already around you.

Spot it. Flip it. Ask whether it is a business

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Access to justice is an investable market.

@TomiDee on stage, making the case that fixing it is both a social outcome and a commercial one.

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Trust compounds quietly and breaks loudly.

Nobody builds it by saying “trust me.” You build it by making the business easy to verify.

That is what a Digital Data Room is for.

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10 seasons. 43 startups. 78 founders.

Hundreds more applied.

Season 11 is next

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Full conversation -
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Copying Silicon Valley is not a strategy in Africa.

Different markets. Different capital. Different paths to scale.

@TomiDee on what actually transfers and what does not

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#ThrowbackThursday to the London launch of Investment Worthy Startup by @TomiDee.

Written for founders building investable businesses and the angels deciding which ones are.

Worth the read if you are either

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@Blueroomcare was a MentorPitch 6 finalist.

Today their therapy platform is used by Coca-Cola, MTN, KPMG, Zenith Bank, Sterling Bank, Accion, Stanbic IBTC and Terra Kulture.

The pitch is one moment. What comes after is the story.

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Most founders know their business. Fewer can show it.

That gap is what the Digital Data Room closes.

Revenue. Costs. Margins. Customers. Milestones. Assumptions. Evidence.

Organised, it answers questions before an investor has to ask them.

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Founders assume selection is about the idea.

It is mostly about what sits behind the story: traction, numbers, team and what the next stage actually requires.

@TomiDee on how we choose

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Global rooms are only useful if what you learn in them comes home.

@TomiDee with Candace Johnson, former EBAN President and other angels at the World Business Angels Investment Forum.

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100+ startups supported.

1,000 is the goal.

What we have learned so far: capital is rarely the binding constraint. Structure, documentation and investor access are.

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Founders hear “no” and assume the business failed the test.

Often the business passed and the mandate did not match.