Leyla’s story, like the one of many entrepreneurs, is paved with good intentions and hardships. Having worked in nonprofits and being a born activist, she naturally joined her accounting and finance skills with social endeavours by creating YourY Network, a global community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers. Leyla’s is one
Saving more than 500 tons of food from wastage, distributing more than 2 millions meals and working towards the goal that no food should go to landfill, are the “raison d’être” of Foodwise. In this episode, you will meet Rebecca Espitalier-Noël, the co-founder and CEO of Foodwise. Rebecca walks us in the
Health is one of our most precious human asset. Being able to give birth in the best and secure possible way is almost a given in developed countries, but unfortunately, it’s not the case in emerging economies, particularly in rural areas. Teheca is a startup that provides alternative dedicated patient care
Imali Pay is an African fintech start-up that is disrupting the African gig economy landscape. Imali Pay recently raised a pre-seed funding from a consortium of VCs. The pre-seed funding was led by the Australia based venture capital fund TEN13. In this episode, we welcome Sanmi Akinmusire, co-founder of Imaly Pay,
It’s always interesting to hear from an entrepreneur who did not think about becoming entrepreneur. Rwandese, living in Switzerland, biologist by education and training with degrees from the universities of Geneva (BSc & MSc) and Basel (PhD), Claire has been professionally active in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for the
As per Wikipedia, a startup ecosystem is formed by people, startups in their various stages and various types of organizations in a location (physical or virtual), interacting as a system to create and scale new startup companies. When you create a company, you quickly realize the importance of a vibrant business ecosystem. In this episode, we
If you have no idea of what multipotentiality is about, then this episode has been recorded for you. Natacha Emilien, the MD of Red Dot is one of those people, called multipotentialite. We can think they are jack-of-all-trades, however, it’s wrong. As the saying goes, Jack of all trades, master of none! Multipotentialites are
With this last episode of our founders series, we go into the business life of Jason Delorie, Innovation Executive, co-founder of two startups (this podcast and Tutor Me) and recipient of the Outstanding Young Entrepreneur Award. How do you start a startup? Do you throw everything away and you go gang-ho,
Today, we explore the human side of businesses. Before being entrepreneurs, founders are humans, men and women who commit time, energy and money to create something bigger than themselves. To talk about this, we welcome one of our cofounders, Gerald Ami. Some listeners probably know that beside Entrepreneurs Talk Africa,
Whatever you want to launch, you’ll need money. But raising capital is not as easy as it seems. We touched this topic with a few business angels and venture capitalists (Impact Investing – With Marie Espitalier Noël, Discovering the African Funding Ecosystem – With Eric Osiakwan, Angel Investors – with Abu Cassim, How to