🎙️ In this live podcast episode, recorded in front of an audience at the Founders Factory Africa offices in Johannesburg, an engaging panel discussion featuring our CEO, Bongani Sithole, alongside Meïssa Gueye, International Finance Corporation, Nicola Galombik, Executive Director, Yellowwoods Group, touch base on the African tech ecosystem, sharing practical and actionable insights, their personal anecdotes and perspectives on the current African VC landscape.

💡Key highlights from the panel discussion:

→ LP perspectives about Africa's venture landscape [11:46]

→ Support systems beyond funding [24:45]

→ Promoting the African ecosystem to crowd in local investors [29:38]

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🎙️ CEO of Carbin Africa, Femi Oriowo, and Co-founder Fawaz Abdul go bar-for-bar with Andile Masuku (Head of Community, FFA) and Amara Muoneke (Venture Design Lead, FFA) in this podcast episode, uncovering how Carbin Africa is changing the game in the auto retail space throughout Africa and joining the Founders Factory Africa Gen F initiative working alongside Amara Muoneke to refine their concept.

Carbin Africa is a leading B2B automobile platform that is revolutionizing the way cars are traded across Africa. Operating primarily in Nigeria, our platform connects car dealerships and auto merchants from across the continent, providing a seamless and efficient solution for their business needs.

What to look forward to in this episode:

• How it all began for Carbin Africa [03:03]
• Connecting car dealerships to auto merchants [12:16]
• Working with the FFA Gen F team [29:45]

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Not So Secret Sauce S2 EP9: Coming home to roost with Pullus Africa

🎙️ In this episode, Opeoluwa Fayomi, co-founder and CEO of Pullus Africa, shares her founder origin story from making extra cash doing graphic design while studying Engineering Physics in the hope of working at the National Aeronautical Space Agency to building a tech solution for poultry farmers that led her to join the Founders Factory Africa Gen F initiative and working alongside Yunus Ibrahim (Venture Builder, Venture Studio) to refine and validate her concept.

Pullus uses data-driven technology to boost local poultry production and supply chain by facilitating access to quality Input, advisory and production critical services, finance, and a guaranteed market for poultry farmers in Africa.

In other news... Pullus has announced its collaboration with Heifer Nigeria to impact the livelihoods of 5,000 small-scale poultry farmers in Kaduna and Nasarawa States, Nigeria. This partnership amplifies Pullus Africa's mission to build the largest network of productive and profitable Poultry farmers in Nigeria and Africa. Read all about it: ✅ https://bit.ly/4ah0hpX ⬅️

What to look forward to in this episode:

• Ope's founder journey and Pullus origin story [01:24]
• Working with the FFA Gen F team [13:27]
• Building for poultry tech in Nigeria [40:08]

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