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Case studies
Counting Down to Africa’s Biggest Early Stage Investor Summit
Africa’s early stage investor community will convene on November 11th and 12th, 2018 for the 5th Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (#AESIS2018), host…
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Case studies
Mentor-Driven Capital, A Business Angel Movement to Realize African Startup Potential
Through mentoring, business angels offer more than just money. They create value for startups by sharing the knowledge, experience, and network they…
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Case studies
VC4A and ABAN announce 2018 Africa Early Stage Investor Summit to kick off Global Entrepreneurship Week in Cape Town
Africa’s early stage investor community will convene on November 11th and 12th, 2018 for the 5th Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (#AESIS2018). This…
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Entrepreneurship
What do you need to get started as an Angel Investor?
Angel Investing may conjure images of people in business suits with wings and halos to match. However, it is far less supernatural and quite
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Entrepreneurship
African angel investors are moving to the heart of the continent’s future
Africa has developed from a continent once viewed as a lost cause to a land of vibrant opportunity, particularly when it comes to business
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Case studies
African early-stage investor community shaping the future at #AAIS2017
The 4th annual African Angel Investor Summit – #AAIS2017 – is set to be the next meeting point for Africa’s early-stage investor community…
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Entrepreneurship
Investor explains why she funded SLA Accelerator 2016 winner Medsaf
One of the three winners of last year’s Nigerian She Leads Africa Accelerator – part of the Work in Progress! project – is Medsaf, a…
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Entrepreneurship
Africa is the next frontier for VCs
According to Clarium Capital founder Peter Thiel, entrepreneurs should look for secrets where no one is looking and turn them into business opportunit…
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Entrepreneurship
Africa’s Angel investing movement picks up momentum in 2017
This past week, the VC4Africa community converged in Johannesburg for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2017. It was the first time the global cong…
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Investing
The African Business Angel – An Early Stage Investment Opportunity
Last year everyone was curious about Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to the African continent, wondering why he was there and what he meant when he