Afrigather Africa is dwelling to a various group of visionary feminine entrepreneurs and traders who’ve damaged via gender boundaries and are shaping the continent’s financial panorama.
These girls are making an affect as influential traders in numerous industries, demonstrating their unwavering dedication to driving financial progress, empowering communities, and creating lasting change.
Let’s delve into the fascinating world of the 5 most influential feminine traders in Africa.
Maya Horgan Famodu
As Founder and Managing Director of Ingressive Capital, Maya has seeded a few of Africa’s fastest-growing companies, together with Paystack, 54gene, and Tizeti. Her agency, Ingressive Capital is named one of many oldest native funds and one of many few female-founded corporations on the continent. She has additionally invested in female-founded startups like Oze, Healthtracka, and Jetstream.
Maya additionally co-founded Ingressive for Good, a nonprofit organisation targeted on cultivating technical expertise and assets for the African startup ecosystems. Moreso, her Ingressive Advisory has aided over 50 worldwide corporations to enter and function throughout Africa. She is named the primary solo girl to lift a tech fund in Nigeria.
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes
Described as one of many youngest feminine non-public fairness fund managers, Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes is the Managing Companion and Founding father of Aruwa Capital Administration. Her agency prioritises untapped funding alternatives in West Africa within the small to decrease mid-market.
With greater than a decade of expertise investing in companies throughout Africa, Adesuwa makes use of Aruwa Capital Administration’s investments to spend money on girls as fund managers, entrepreneurs, shoppers and stakeholders in society. Okunbo Rhodes has invested in Lifeforce Pharmacy, Pngme, Wemy Industries, Koolboks, and Agroeknor Worldwide.
Fatoumata Ba
Fatoumata is the founder and govt chair of Janngo Capital. With the assumption that expertise and capital can leapfrog growth and obtain SDGs in Africa, Janngo Capital builds, grows and invests in pan-African tech startups with confirmed enterprise fashions and inclusive social affect.
By means of Janngo, Fatoumata is concentrated on investing 50 per cent of its proceeds into corporations based, co-founded, or benefiting girls. Her agency has invested in over 11 tech and tech-enabled startups, including Sabi, Expensya and Jexport.
Eloho Omame and Odunayo Eweniyi
Eloho Omame, a former Managing Director at Endeavor Nigeria and Odunayo Eweniyi, Co-founder of Piggyvest established FirstCheck Africa in 2021. With a mission of tackling Africa’s VC gender funding hole to empower feminine high-growth entrepreneurs, FirstCheck has invested in Foondamate, Healthtracka, Tushop, Zoie Well being, Pivo, Akiba Digital, Uncover, and MoneyHash.
Referred to as an early believer for a era of African women in tech, FirstCheck helps feminine founders get the monetary, social and perception capital to construct category-defining corporations.
Tokunboh Ishmael
Tokunboh is among the first in Africa to pioneer affect investing non-public fairness. She based Alitheia Capital in 2007 with Olajumoke Akinwunmi. She additionally co-founded Alitheia IDF the place she raised over $100 million to spend money on female-led companies in Africa. Her firm which embodies the philosophy of true revenue with a function has invested in Ghana’s Jetstream Africa, South Africa’s AV Mild Metal and Nigeria’s ReelFruit Ltd, SKLD (previously SchoolKits) and Chika’s Meals.
As a staunch advocate for monetary literacy, Tokunboh created Yellow Cowries, a platform that employs gamification to show children and entrepreneurs the best way to obtain monetary freedom.
