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VC4Africa reflects on progress made in 2011

I think it is fair to say that 2011 was a good year for the VC4Africa community. What originally started as a Linkedin group has now grown into a thriving and productive network. This year we closed...

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VC4Africa Infographic, 2012 the year of Entrepreneurship in Africa

We have been wanting to produce some visuals for some time now and it was fun to see this project come together for the start of the new year. Instead of some card with a bunch of happy faces we...

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VC4Africa and the emergence of an African startup culture

Want to know more about VC4Africa and our work to support starting entrepreneurs? Here is a presentation we recently recorded. I outline some of the recent trends and developments we are witnessing in...

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Steeds meer Nederlandse ondernemers ontdekken Afrika

Yesterday evening VC4Africa board member Jasper Grosskurth, Director of Research and Strategy at Research Solutions Africa, was featured on Dutch national news channel NOS. The report gives a nice...

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Opening address at Private Equity World Africa 2012 – African Investor Day

Here is my opening address at the Private Equity World Africa 2011 Conference in London. I am pleased to be here. On behalf of VC4Africa, I am pleased to welcome you to this conference. We have a nice...

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Innovations in finance needed to support African SMEs

Why do banks have a hard time supporting entrepreneurs? What kind of innovations are underway and what might we expect in the future? It’s time to close the missing middle and there are some promising...

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Venture Capitalist take a look at the challenges investing in African tech

VC4Africa was pleased to host the panel, ‘Strengthening the VC pipeline’  at the 9th Annual Conference for the African Venture Capital Association meeting hosted in Accra.  I was joined by Yemi Lalude,...

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Celebrating a growing technology community in Cameroon

So exciting to see Djoss.tv win the Cameroon Startup Challenge 2012. It was an electric evening with so much positive energy. My first trip to Cameroon was in the spring of 2011. Amazing to see what...

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Why is DEMO coming to Africa?

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Launch Angel Investor network in Lagos, Nigeria

The Lagos Innovation Hotspots is an initiative of the Co-creation Hub aimed at mapping hotspots representing clusters of emerging high growth and competitive businesses across Lagos. The current map,...

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