African Start-up Investment Summit 2020 - Part 3 - Webinar
African Start-up Investment Summit 2020 - Part 3 - An aligned investment process in Africa.
This is Part 3 of 3 of the online African Start-up Investment Summit 2020, brought to you by AfricArena and Founders Factory Africa.
The first part of this webinar brought together prominent institutional investors and enablers in Africa. We hear from Julia Price, Capital Lead at Endeavor South Africa about her work to create a common and standardised terms sheet adapted to major African regulations. We hear from Eva Warigia, Executive Director at EAVCA, about their initiative on early-stage financing tools. And lastly, we hear from Shelley Lotz, Head of Regulatory Affairs at SAVCA, who presents the work underway by SAVCA on promoting a Start-up Act regulation in South Africa, and specifically on challenges relative to IP frameworks and how to address it.
The second part of the session showcased 3 exciting start-up founders, based in Africa, who are rapidly adapting to current conditions. The 3 start-ups that pitched virtually were: Kweza (South Africa), a platform that connects small traders with wholesalers to bring convenience; WeeGo (Morocco & Senegal), a platform that connects commuters to their local transportation network; and MVXchange (Nigeria), an on-demand B-2-B maritime service that connects vessel charterers directly to offshore support vessels operating in Africa.
At the time of this series of webinars, economies face the harsh ramifications of a slowdown in trade. Early-stage entrepreneurs and start-ups are especially affected by the resultant liquidity crisis and slowdown in consumer activity. Yet, these very same start-ups and entrepreneurs are likely going to innovate to lead our collective charge out of this economic trough as a continent, and will go on to provide economic opportunities for thousands across Africa in the post-COVID era. Join the collective effort to maximise their chances of succeeding for all of us. Founders Factory Africa and AfricArena have taken pride in making this series - bringing together key stakeholders of the ecosystem and shedding light on those taking actionable steps in these uncertain times and promote an aligned discourse in a solution-driven format.
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