Lizanne D'Souza  knows product and Fintech. She’s run product teams in both emerging and developed markets over the past 20 years, and...

by Tony Chen Why don’t we talk about failure more? For some, it’s just too painful. All that blood, sweat, and tears went into something...

By Edwin Maganjo, Verdant Frontiers Fintech Fund Having been a founder for 10 years, I’ve pitched startup ideas to investors countless...

By Edwin Maganjo, Verdant Frontiers Fintech Fund The one thing that all great start-ups have in common is that they are solving a big...

by Edwin Maganjo, Verdant Frontiers Fintech Fund Without Product-Market Fit (PMF), start-ups cannot scale sustainably. Start-ups that...

Last Friday, US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman took her "Kenyan Roadshow" to Silicon Valley. She made the case to invest in Africa, and...

Y Combinator is arguably the most successful accelerator on the planet, with 4,000 funded start-ups with an aggregated valuation of...

I have talked to hundreds of potential investors over the last 6 months, and this, “Really? Africa? For investment?” question keeps...

Reflecting on my investments to date, I’ve been thinking about my biases. The question isn’t am I biased? Honestly, the question is how...

Now that I’ve heard hundreds of pitches, I can tell you there is a wide continuum of pitching / storytelling. Most entrepreneurs are...

A few things I’ve learned while traveling this path. Sometimes you find the “right” entrepreneur working on the “wrong” venture. Stay in...

Good at tech, bad at fin. Unfortunately, this turns out to be true more often than you’d expect. One of the long-standing misconceptions...

Many of you have heard me talk about my admiration for the East African tech ecosystem. For Nairobi in particular, there aren’t many...

I’m excited to announce that Kinyungu Ventures — along with our portfolio of 5 fintech investments — has been acquired by Verdant...

Over the last 6 months, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to discover many organizations with the conviction to write early-stage $25–75k...

I’ve been asked a lot of questions about investing in Africa over the years by international investors. One basic question: where do you...

Kinyungu Ventures Research calls for Changes to Cut-and-paste VC Strategy In Africa Paper recommends investment structures and approaches...

Plenty has been written on COVID-19, and I’ve read more than I care to admit. I won’t add to those voices. Today, I’m actually writing to...

After 10 years of corporate life and 10 years of entrepreneurial life, I’m now in the process of transitioning into a new role: impact...

Earlier this year, a wise VC mentor with 20 years experience pulled me aside and told me something that had me screaming in my mind....