Africa’s Innovation

Venture capital, investing in African technology companies

Featuring:

Maya Horgan Famodu is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, founder and partner at Ingressive, a firm that provides market entry, technology research and market operations services for firms and businesses expanding into Africa. She also founded Ingressive Capital, a venture capital fund investing in Africa-based technology companies. She co-founded the High Growth Africa Summit, a two-day conference on how to launch a high growth African business, and founded Tech Meets Entertainment Summit, a deal-focused event for African celebrities and tech companies to build revenue-generating partnerships.

Horgan Famodu founded and is the managing director of the $10 million venture capital firm targeting early-stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa's key tech markets. Ingressive Capital has seeded some of Africa's fastest-growing businesses, including Paystack, which sold for over $200 million to Stripe. Horgan Famodu also co-founded Ingressive for Good, a nonprofit focused on technical talent and resources for African startup ecosystems that has done a collective 40 deals across the continent. She previously worked in private equity research at J.P. Morgan.  Maya Horgan Famodu appeared on the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 in 2018 in the technology category.

The Center for International Studies (CIS) has partnered with the newly launched TRUE Africa University (TAU) to host a webinar series focusing on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Thursdays at NOON ET, starting on March 4, TAU founder, MIT alumnus, and CIS research affiliate Claude Grunitzky, will interview the thinkers, shapers and doers who he sees as the inventors of the future of Africa.

ORGANIZER: Center for International Studies at MIT & TRUE Africa University

WEBSITE: http://calendar.mit.edu/event/HorganFamodu#.YEJr72hKgnI