Angel investors play a crucial role in the startup ecosystem — providing early-stage funding and essential mentorship to entrepreneurs. As an African entrepreneur, accessing angel investment can be a game-changer in driving business growth and overcoming financial hurdles. But how exactly can you get these investors?
You can get angel investors for your startup by…
The Art of Pitching!! Before you even do the pitch and before you even ask for money, let's take a couple steps back. Relationship building. I always say start raising money when you don't actually need money. Generating FOMO, generating trust, and demonstrating integrity and responsibility, are the things you need to optimize for. The…
Today, we're going to talk about maintaining relationships with limited partners. First, I'll define what a limited partner is. An LP, or limited partner, is one of the members of a partnership. It's the contributing members of the pool of capital that venture capital funds have and that they use to exchange equity or…
There are three main ways ingressive capital focuses on competitive advantages or value-add to the founders that we invest in. The first one is access to limited partners or later-stage investors. So as I've mentioned before, in some of the videos, the way that a venture capital fund works, which is what we have,…
Somebody recently asked me, why do you invest in women? 40% of our fund 1 is female founded or co-founded businesses. Why? I said, you don't ask me why I'm investing in men. Why are you asking me why I'm investing in women? It's not about gender. It's about the top performing companies that we…
So the third myth that I need to debunk about venture capital funds is that VCs just keep giving money. Once you raise a first check, they'll indefinitely fund you. The thing that you need to know about this is, fortunately, unfortunately, that's not the case. I say fortunately, because VCs have a…