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Finding Fintech's Future: Towards a Thesis on Investing in Africa
The Trajectory Africa’s first principles series was inspired by a desire to understand the drivers and assumptions underlying investable opportunities in key sectors h...
Building the "Boring" Stuff: Infrastructure for Money Movement & Trade
In Episode 1 of this series, Abraham Augustine, Research Partner of trendsAf and Comms and Programs Lead at Norrsken warned against “long arm, no mouth” syndrome and t...
Captain MAX: Democratizing Access to Electric Vehicles
Back in Episode 7 of Trajectory Africa’s first series, Barbara Iyayi, CEO & Founding Partner of Unicorn Growth Capital made a strong statement about the ubiquity of fi...
Save Now, Buy Later: A Culturally-relevant Approach to Consumption?
In the previous episode of The Trajectory Africa, we explored the art and science of community lending to microbusinesses. In this episode, we turn from business lendi...
Banking on Social Intelligence: A Community Model for Microbusiness Lending
In the previous episode of the Trajectory Africa, we heard from Kiiru Muhoya and Judith Bogonko at Fingo about the importance of cultivating Africa’s youth as the next...
Banking Africa's Ambitious: Anatomy of a Partner-Powered Neobank
According to research by global consultancy Simon-Kucher in 2022, fewer than 5% of neobanks were profitable. A recent update suggests that most are still loss-makers, ...
B2B Payments: Unseating Cash through Value Chain Integration
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Yele Oyekola, Co-founder and CEO of Duplo, a company on a mission to streamline financial operations for African busines...
Thinking Differently: A Case for Venture Building in African VC
On this special episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’re featuring “someone you should know”—David Ogundeko, Founder and Chief Vision Officer for Funema, a last-mile, i...
Cross Border Payments and the Alchemy of Price and Volatility
On this episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’re talking to Ola Oyetayo, Co-Founder and CEO of Verto, the first "all in one" cross-border payments platform for corporat...
A Wordline Playbook for Africa: from Payments Infrastructure to Solutions
On the previous episode of The Trajectory Africa, Wiza Jalakasi, Africa Market Development Director at EBANX suggested that infrastructure-building consumer payments b...
The Hard Thing about (Consumer) Payments in Africa
On this episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’ll hear from Wiza Jalakasi, Director for Africa Market Development at EBanx, a payments processor headquartered in Brazil....
Beyond Fintech? On building financial systems in Africa
On this episode of The Trajectory Africa’s current series, "The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles", we’re laying the foundation for a deeper expl...
Long arm with no mouth: The physical limits of Africa's digital economy
This is the first episode of Part 1 of a new series on The Trajectory Africa —The Engine of African Venture, A Return to First Principles. This series will explore wha...
The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles
The Trajectory Africa’s second series, The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles, is a two-part exploration of what powers fundamental value creation...
Le ou La: Rightsizing Complexity when (Venture) Building in Francophone Africa
Welcome to Episode 5, the next to last of Dans les Coulisses, a series exploring VC and tech entrepreneurship in Francophone Africa, brought to you by Impact Hub Dakar...
Popping Cristal: On How to Tap Unmet Need in Francophone Markets
Welcome to Episode 4 of Dans les Coulisses, a series exploring VC and tech entrepreneurship in Francophone Africa, brought to you by Impact Hub Dakar and The Trajector...
On Our Own?: Growing Francophone Startup Champions
In this conversation with founder, investor, and ecosystem builder, Omar Cissé, we discuss VC opportunities in Francophone markets, key characteristics of Francophone ...
The Trajectory Africa Rewind: Principles for Understanding African Venture
Welcome to The Trajectory Africa: Rewind, the summary episode for the Trajectory Africa, a podcast series exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and ...
Tracing Roots: The Role of LPs in African Venture Ecosystem(s)
In this episode, Babacar Seck and I discuss how he started his career in venture capital and private equity, Proparco’s distinct characteristics as an LP and how it ev...
Listening with Empathy: Fundraising beyond Spreadsheets
In this episode, I speak with Danai Musandu about how she got into VC/PE, the fundraising process and how it differs by LP type, what LPs look for when they evaluate f...
Breaking Boundaries: Building Wealth & Community through African VC
In this episode, I chat with Adenike Sheriff about how she plotted an “unlikely” path into VC by co-founding Future Africa, why her “blank slate” thinking resulted in ...
Fun with VC Math: Designing Funds & Exits in Africa
In this episode, Track 8, I chat with Eghosa Omoigui, Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners about designing high-performing, Africa-focused funds and how exits i...
Perception vs. Reality: How Fintech is Driving Africa's Digital Economy
This conversation with Africa-focused investor Barbara Iyayi takes a bird’s eye view of fintech as a cross-cutting enabler and investment opportunity, digging into how...
If You Build It, They Will Come: Creating a Lending Ecosystem for African SMEs
In this episode, Hilda and I chat about how she’s building a tech company that’s creating an (eco)system of tech products to connect SME borrowers to much-needed capital.
No Enterprise Left Behind: The Role of SMEs in Africa's Venture Landscape
In this episode, Kuhle and I explore the SME investment opportunity, how it’s similar to and different from tech, and the ways in which tech-enabled SMEs and tech vent...
One Step at a Time: Sizing Consumer Markets & Enabling Consumption in Nigeria
This episode of The Trajectory Africa is about how Stears Nigeria came to be, why it aspires to be the “Bloomberg of Africa”, the "proper" size of consumer and b2b mar...
Hold the C.R.E.A.M.: Decoding Consumer Markets & Digital Commerce in Africa
Guest artist Jake Kenadall and I discuss his unlikely path to becoming an Africa-focused investor, why digital commerce is a robust investment opportunity, why digital...
We Can Solve It Ourselves: The Case for African Startup Success
In this episode, Dr. Dotun and I spoke about his circuitous journey to becoming an Africa-focused investor, what his initial assumptions and mental models were when he...
Don't Start a Fund? Kinyungu's New Take on Chasing Outliers
In this episode, I chat with Tony Chen, Partner at Verdant Frontiers and Co-Founder of Kinyungu Ventures, about his journey to Africa-focused investing, how conducting...
Welcome to The Trajectory: Africa!
This episode is an introduction to The Trajectory Africa, a podcast series exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and startup formation in Africa.
