Africa! Why Global VCs Are Investing In Africa, An Overview Of VC Market Cycles, Accelerators, Angel Investors, and more on VC Evolve Podcast with VCpreneur and Hisham Halbouny of P1 Ventures..
Guest Intro:
Hisham Halbouny is a GP at P1 Ventures, a seed stage firm focusing on African tech founders. Prior to P1 Ventures, Hisham was a Partner at Man Capital, where he led global private-markets investments including: Uber, Bolt, Airbnb and Fairmarkit.
He is on the board of several high growth companies in Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, the US, and India.
In today's episode with Hisham:
1. How African entrepreneurial talent is more widely dispersed across the continent than venture capital funding, and what P1 Ventures is doing to change that.
2. What sectors and industries are startups and VCs are focusing on in Africa.
3. An overview of the African VC market cycles in the past 20 years.
4. The VC model in Africa and what VCs do to support their portfolio companies.
5. Accelerators and angel investors in Africa.
6. Exit potentials in Africa, and the comparison to LatAm markets.
7. The future of VC in Africa, and why many international VCs are dedicating funds to invest in African startups.
VC Evolve Podcast is hosted by VCpreneur: Ahmad Takatkah.
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