Venture investor in Emerging Markets / Kauffman Fellow #KF26 / Nomadic Aussie/ my brain dump is below, enter at your own risk
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Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Each visit to Africa, I get more conviction around the opportunity to invest there. The founders are hungry, the talent is tops and the market gaps are clear. Meeting with a few early stage Fintech / Infra founders this week in Kenya and could not be more pumped for Africa tech to continue to outpace.
(Plus they have giraffes ๐ฆ in the city!!) โ at Nairobi, Kenya
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
1/ Monzo (@monzo ) will go down the history books as one of the best turnarounds of the last decade
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
This advice from @bchesky will probably save your company millions of dollars:
"We don't have permission from users to do new things until people love our core service."
Be great at the job that customers hired you to do before chasing the shiny new thing.
Source: @TWiStartups
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
I feel bad for Silicon Valley Bank right now.
They have been the biggest capital partner to founders, employees, and investors over the last decade and theyโre being completely turned on by all of them.
If SVB goes under it would be detrimental to the startup community
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Happy International Women's Day! #IWD
P1/4 ๐โโ๏ธ๐๐
To celebrate today I wanted to spotlight thirty incredible women working in ๐ African Tech from ๐ค Investors to ๐ง Founders and the ๐ Ecosystem Builders. You can find them tagged in the thread and organisations in the images๐
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
P4 ๐ท๐ผ๐๐
๐บ๐ธ 4dxventures.com
๐บ๐ธ @AjimCapital
๐ฐ๐ช @EnzaCapital
๐ฌ๐ญ @GOODsoilVC
๐ณ๐ฌ @GreenHouseCap_
๐ฟ๐ฆ @GrindstoneXL
๐ฎ๐ช @hoaqclub
๐บ๐ธ @Kiva
๐ฟ๐ฆ @KnifeCap
๐ฟ๐ฆ @LaunchAfricaVC
๐ฌ๐ง @localglobevc
๐ณ๐ฌ octerracapital.com
๐ฌ๐ง @OctopusVentures
๐บ๐ธ @OuiCapital
๐ฌ๐ง @samosvc
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Africa-based Fellows showed major conviction, making the KF Africa VC Summit 2023 a reality: Bame Pule, Wale Ayeni, Dia Martin, @CaroleWainaina, @Ikiwoods, @mayahorgan, @anovitske, @RubyNimkar, @kenza_lahlou, @PuleTaukobong, @CathTownshend & @TemiMarcella๐bit.ly/3Bnr7xE
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
What should a pre-seed/seed data room include? ๐
๐ deck
๐ฝ๏ธ product demo (if relevant)
๐ cap table
๐ financials (historical + projections)
๐ market data
๐ customer contracts (if any)
๐ use of funds + key milestones
๐ฉโ๐ฉโ๐ฆ team + board + advisors
๐ฅ references
โจ grand vision
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Doug Leone from Sequoia closed a panel yesterday evening I was in the audience for with a fitting quote for founders given state of markets and itโs spot on.
โYou cannot overtake 15 cars when itโs sunnyโฆ but you can when itโs raining.โ
-Ayrton Senna, former F1 driver
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Sorry Indian Americans. It's no longer good enough to be CEO. You have to be prime minister of a former colonizer now. That's the new bar.
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
๐ It's 1 day to go!!! ๐
Our Pan-African Women Entrepreneurship Program starts tomorrow, Thursday, October 27.
Register now: bit.ly/WEPVMM1
Don't miss out on the opportunity to join the fastest-growing community of females.
๐ฃ Share with a female founder you know!
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Your startupโs goal should be to build a product that 100 people love and canโt live without rather than a product a million people think is just okay. โ at San Mateo, CA
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
We are frequently asked what drives #outperformance for a #VC
To answer this we created a database of enterprise vs consumer performance ๐to spot patterns & analyze returns
๐งตto share high level findings, but to dig deeper, download the full report๐
๐bit.ly/3Cf17Uv
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Card transaction volume per day:
- Brex + Ramp (combined): ~$50M per day
- AmEx: $3B per day
Still Day 1.
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
You donโt know a 1 in 1,000 deal until youโve seen a 1,000 deals
VC is all about reps, keep at it!
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Single biggest mistake I hear about todays market:
Look at 2008, great companies are always built in downturns.
NO.
2008 was a pivotal technological innovation with rise of iPhone & App Store (Uber, Insta, Snap, IG etc). It was not because of the macro.
Donโt conflate.
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
JUST IN: ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria and #Binance are in talksย to create a digital economic zone that will support blockchain technology adoption.