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final week VC4Africa co-organized an innovative session at the SEED Symposium in Nairobi,Kenya, where investors pitched in front of entrepreneurs.
When speaking to investors we often hea
r that many entrepreneurs lack knowledge on the funds they approach and therefore waste time on both sides of the table. That’s why VC4Africa co-organized a session with SEED at their annual SEED Africa Symposium in Nairobi where the sides turned and the investors took the stage to pitch in front of about 75 social entrepreneurs.The reverse pitching format, and titled ‘Impact Investing – How it really works?’,aimed at connecting impact investors with potential investees in an innovative way. Representatives of Root Capital, PAMIGA, or Acumen Fund,LGT Venture Philantrophy, Grofin and the ERM Low Carbon Enterprise Fund took [...]

Source: vc4africa.biz

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