Climate Change… Freshbox: Avoiding food waste at the farm 10 May 202210 May 2022 John Mbindyo is the CEO and co-founder of Freshbox, a Kenyan startup focusing on avoiding food waste in East Africa by offering affordable cooling solutions (*). What prompted you to…
Basics… Building unicorns 12 Apr 202222 Mar 2022 For early stages investments, this is more art than science, nevertheless, there are some common traits that can be easily identified for founders of startups that can go from Zero…
Management… Real-Life Heroes: Lina and Ted 23 Mar 202222 Mar 2022 Hi, Gaston here. When I chose to invest in Carmachain's pre-seed round almost a year ago, I just envisioned helping the unbanked in emerging markets (starting with Kenya and Nigeria).…
impinv… Omniolytics – automating poultry production best practices 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 What prompted you to launch Omniolytics? Omniolytics(*) was launched in 2017, however, the idea was born in 2006 whilst I worked for the leading mobile operator in South Africa, Vodacom.…
allocation… Average “ticket size” 14 Jul 202013 Jul 2020 I could start with, “it depends”, but I will try to give you a more straightforward answer. If you are a founder and have landed on this page, why are…
First Order Principles… Value investing in startups? 31 Mar 202031 Mar 2020 The critical question is whether value investing techniques can be applied or not to early-stage investing in startups?. The conclusion is that although you may adopt the methodology, for seed…
Climate Change A decarbonised future? 19 Mar 20205 Mar 2020 Elliot Coad, Co-Founder of Offset Earth recently asked me(*) to answer the following questions (kind of a personality test for someone that has worked for over twenty-five years in the…
allocation… Accelerating the fight against climate change 5 Mar 20204 Mar 2020 Borrowing some inspiration from Everything is a Remix, I would like to recast some thoughts that Stephen Lacey first shared in The Energy Gang Podcast. The question that he answered,…