Quan Le is the Founder of Binkabi, a cross-border agricultural trading platform that leverages blockchain technology. Binkabi’s core innovation empowers people in developing countries to trade securely and cheaply without the use of a hard currency. Quan also worked with … Keep Reading »
Howard A. Tullman is the former CEO of 1871 and serves as the General Managing Partner for G2T3V, LLC and for the Chicago High Tech Investors, LLC; he is a Director of SnapSheet, Keeper Security, Dibit and VEHCON. 1871 is … Keep Reading »
Marcus Dantus is the CEO and Founder of Startup Mexico, a facility specially designed to host aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, professional services, seed capital funds, university initiatives and corporations. He also founded Mexico.com, Mexico’s first online community and internet portal, as … Keep Reading »
Martin Villig is co-founder of Taxify, a leading ride-hailing platform in 40 cities across Europe and Africa. Taxify has over 10M riders and 120K drivers worldwide. Martin is passionate about community initiatives to promote entrepreneurship and help people in Baltics … Keep Reading »
Aubrey Hruby is a Co-Founder of Insider, the Africa Expert Network (AXN) and an advisor to investors and Fortune 500 companies doing business in Africa. She designs market entry strategies, sources opportunities and facilitates transactions. As a Senior Fellow at … Keep Reading »
Allie Burns is the Managing Director at Village Capital and brings more than 16 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and innovators at the intersection of tech and social change. Allie works across Village Capital’s program in emerging markets including … Keep Reading »
Tayo Oviosu is the Founder and CEO of Paga, Nigeria’s leading mobile payment service. Prior to Paga he was Vice President at Travant Capital Partners where he was responsible for executing the firm‘s investment strategy in West Africa. He is … Keep Reading »
Donna Harris is co-founder of 1776, a major initiative which convenes and accelerates startups from around the world by connecting them to the political, intellectual, social and financial capital that make Washington, DC unique. Donna is also a Founding Member … Keep Reading »
This panel session was recorded at the ecosystem summit at Collision in New Orleans a few weeks ago. The topic of the panel was around strategies for small and mid-sized cities to foster and support the growth of their startup … Keep Reading »
Eghosa Omoigui is the founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners. Before this, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Intel Capital Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer Internet & Semantic Technologies, where he … Keep Reading »
Jon Atkinson serves as Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development at Loyola University New Orleans, a program he helped found. In this role, he leads Loyola’s efforts to provide nationally recognized entrepreneurship education that will help build … Keep Reading »
Host Andrew Berkowitz moderates an All Things Crypto panel session at the Blockchain, Crypto, and Beyond conference in Arlington, Virginia. BCBcon is a full-day conference focused on blockchain technology and crypto. Panelists include Akin Sawyerr, CEO of RocRemit, Jenny Q. … Keep Reading »
Alexandre Vallieres is the Vice-President of AIWorx. AIWorx uses artificial intelligence to help generate data, understand what’s hidden in the data and act on it to unlock its potential. They simplify work and generate value by providing strategic insights and … Keep Reading »
Sébastien Tanguay is the General Manager of Le Camp, Québec International’s incubator. Le Camp is an incubator-accelerator dedicated to tech businesses growth and mentorship, and offers a diversity of services adapted to a company’s development stage, from pre start-up to … Keep Reading »
Charles Boulanger is the CEO of LeddarTech. LeddarTech is the developer and owner of Leddar, a patented solid-state LiDAR sensing technology that constitutes a novel approach in light detection and ranging. Developed over 10+ years of R&D, Leddar is a … Keep Reading »
While putting together our African Tech Rising podcast series, I had the pleasure of interviewing some of Africa’s most successful entrepreneurs and VC’s of the past few years including Iyin Aboyeji of Andela and Flutterwave, Chris Folayan of Mall4Africa, and … Keep Reading »