Only 2% of funding goes to solo or all-female foundering teams. Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, there is a major gender funding gap globally, and in Africa, as well. How do we close it? This episode is the first of a five-episode series on gender-lens investing, co-hosted by @ElohoGM, Partner at @FirstCheckHQ. Each episode of this series will explore a different level of the fundraising value chain. In this episode, we get the founder perspective: Yanmo Omarogbe is the Co-founder & COO of the Nigerian investment platform Bamboo. And Sneha Mehta is the Co-founder & CEO of Uncover, a direct-to-consumer skincare brand in Kenya. And stay tuned for the end of the episode, for a retrospective conversation between @ElohoGM & @just_norm. -- Watch the full episode here on X. Or, hit the link in the post below to watch on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcast app ⬇️ -- This series is created under the ScaleX project: Co-designing Solutions to close the early stage gender-financing gap in Africa, an initiative of Make-IT in Africa. @giz_gmbh implements this project on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).