Startup Spotlight – WeBio
WeBio is aiming to shape the future of Bioprinting and to change the lives of millions. The team is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information visit https://www.webio.tech… Keep Reading »
Infrastructure and Ecosystem Development in the MENA region
Ali AbuKumail joined the World Bank as a Private Sector Specialist in 2012 in the Finance and Private Sector Unit of the Middle East and North Africa Region. Prior joining the World Bank, he worked as Development Adviser to the … Keep Reading »
Startup Spotlight – flx
flx is a private shuttle service for your daily home-to-work journeys. Spend less of your life on the road, sitting in traffic. With flx you get more time to spend on the activities you love, with the people you love.… Keep Reading »
The $25M Alabama Futures Fund
Matt Hottle is a Partner at Redhawk Advisory and and Principle of the Alabama Futures Fund. The Fund seeks to be the first significant investment in an early-stage venture that can reach attainable milestones leading to series A financing within … Keep Reading »
Startup Spotlight – Lucy.ng
Lucy is an e-commerce, wholesale and retail technology company that provides business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales of personalized products and branded merchandise online. They are the convenient alternative in a billion dollar niche market that is currently 97% brick and mortar … Keep Reading »
Unifying the Caribbean Startup Ecosystem
The session is a preview of a Roundtable Discussion from Latin America day of The Global Startup Summit, our upcoming 7 day Virtual Conference featuring 35 expert speakers from around the world. Host Andrew Berkowitz is joined on the panel … Keep Reading »
Building an African Fintech Scaleup
Mike Quinn is the CEO of Zoona, A Zambian born money transfer service. Zoona charges money senders between two and eight percent per transaction, with the recipient not being charged for a cash-out. Building money transfer networks across its markets, Zoona … Keep Reading »
Blockchain for Africa with Yele Bademosi
Yele Bademosi is a Director at Binance Labs a fund and initiative to incubate, invest and empower top blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, projects, and communities.
Yele is Focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Africa, as well as sourcing/investing in blockchain projects and … Keep Reading »
The Global Startup Summit 2019 – Understanding the Chinese Startup Ecosystem
The Global Startup Summit 2019 (globalstartup.tv) is a free to attend 7 day Virtual Conference from February 18-24th, 2019, featuring 35 global leaders in tech providing insight into early stage investment opportunities and technology adoption trends around the world. Each … Keep Reading »
Lambda School’s Austen Allred on the future of education
Austen Allred is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lambda School. Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers at no up-front cost. Instead of paying tuition, students can agree to pay a percentage of their income after they’re employed, and only … Keep Reading »
The $300M fund investing in Midwest startups
Chris Olsen is the Cofounder and Partner at Drive Capital. Chris started Drive Capital in 2012 after serving as a partner at Sequoia Capital for six years, where he focused s investments in growth stage opportunities. Chris and his cofounding … Keep Reading »
Toro Orero, the Tim Draper backed African VC
Toro Orero is the Founder and Managing Partner at Draper Dark Flow, a silicon valley venture capital fund (backed by Tim Draper; Founder, DFJ) for African startups that can change the world. More recently he is the Founder at TravelGee.AI, a … Keep Reading »
Nigeria’s Digital Banking Environment
Dr. Konstantinos Tsanis is currently leading the innovation and transformation arm of the first digital bank of Africa, Alat, created by WEMA Bank. He is a seasoned financial technology and digitalization executive, with 12+ years hands of experience across different … Keep Reading »
From Poverty to Multinational Entrepreneur with Peter Karenge
Peter Karenge is the President and Founder of BizSolutions 360, a full service architectural, engineering and consulting firm, that has designed, built, financed, operated and managed projects and programs around the globe. He’s an architect and entrepreneur who is passionate … Keep Reading »
How the Puerto Rico Startup Community bounced back after Hurricane Maria
This panel discussion features two startup ecosystem builders in Puerto Rico Carlos Jiménez of YEES PR! and Denisse Rodríguez Colón of Colmena66 and the Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust. We discuss the story of the startup community in Puerto Rico post Hurricane … Keep Reading »
VC in Cape Town with 4Di’s Justin Stanford
Justin Stanford is the co-founder and managing director of 4Di Group an early-stage technology venture capital fund based in Cape Town, South Africa. Having founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech … Keep Reading »
Building the Foundation of Lisbon’s Startup Ecosystem with Pedro Vieira
Pedro Vieira is co-founder and CEO of Beta-i – an platform dedicated to build innovation ecosystems that is leading the transformation of a new humanised digital innovation and is the Managing Partner of LC Ventures a pre-seed / seed Venture … Keep Reading »
The Buenos Aires Startup Ecosystem with Lisa Besserman
Lisa Besserman,is the Founder and CEO of Startup Buenos Aires (SUBA), a community organization and educational accelerator aimed to inspire, connect and support startups and entrepreneurship in Latin America. SUBA provides tools & resources to cultivate a strong and sustainable … Keep Reading »
Accelerating Africa’s High Potential Entrepreneurs
Johnni Kjelsgaard is the Founder and CEO of GrowthAfrica. Since starting GrowthAfrica, Johnni and his team have helped to accelerate 152 startups with $42 Million in total venture capital being raised by startups going through their accelerator.
He has spent most … Keep Reading »
The Emergence of Ethiopia’s Sheba Valley
Zekarias Amsalu is the Founder & MD of Ibex Frontier, with presence in Ethiopia, London, and Washington DC. Zekarias started his career in the private Banking sector in Ethiopia followed by a regional Finance and Treasury role at Shell Oil East … Keep Reading »