At 10X-e, our mission is to increase scale-up success rates, job creation, impact, and returns to unlock more and better capital, talent, support, and growth. When the opportunity arose to partner with Disrupt Africa, to participate in their podcast series that focuses on the African venture capital space, we couldn’t turn it down.
As we seek to establish 10X-e as a thought leader in the scale-up business life stage across the continent, we are excited to share our deep experience in venture capital with the Disrupt Africa audience and share how we believe one can navigate fund-raising for their business.
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The four-part podcast series on the African venture capital space focuses on how it works, what its dynamics are, and what is happening in the sector.
- Episode one takes listeners through the nuts and bolts of VC, defining what venture actually is, telling them where VC firms get their money from, how they make money themselves, and what an investor actually does all day. It also addresses misconceptions entrepreneurs may have about venture capital, why it is there, and what it can do for them.
- Episode two takes listeners through the anatomy of a VC deal – discussing how investments are made, where VCs source their startups from, and what due diligence looks like. We also look at potential exit routes for VCs, and how they go about ensuring they are prepared for them.
- Episode three covers the different ways in which startups and venture capitalists work together once a deal is done, whether a VC can interfere too much, and why startups need to do their due diligence on their investors just as much as investors need to do it on them.
- Episode four, the last in the series, looks at VCs as people, and what makes them tick. It discusses what makes a good VC, their backgrounds and motivations, and the issue of diversity in the space.
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