# Africa’s Innovation #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 29, 2021** 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Virtual Event - Details Below** *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)](https://www.trueafricauniversity.com/) 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](https://trueafrica.co/article/author/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:** Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://africa.harvard.edu/node/1582296/event-feed.ics) Copy link link