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 🦒 in the city!!) – 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
T-6min on our new twitter series with @emurgo_io. We'll be discussing all things tokenisation, web3 and crypto for emerging markets. No hidden jargon, no B.S just deep discussions with global builders in the space...and loads of vibes
T-1 hour to this amazing event with @Official_NODO and @EmurgoAfrica . Join us here: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1gqxvyVemWBJB
Don’t miss out!
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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 they’re 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 🙋♀️🌍🚀
To celebrate today I wanted to spotlight thirty incredible women working in 🌍 African Tech from 🤑 Investors to 🧠 Founders and the 🚀 Ecosystem Builders. You can find them tagged in the thread and organisations in the images🙌
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
P4 🇷🇼🚀🌍
🇺🇸 4dxventures.com
🇺🇸 @AjimCapital
🇰🇪 @EnzaCapital
🇬🇭 @GOODsoilVC
🇳🇬 @GreenHouseCap_
🇿🇦 @GrindstoneXL
🇮🇪 @hoaqclub
🇺🇸 @Kiva
🇿🇦 @KnifeCap
🇿🇦 @LaunchAfricaVC
🇬🇧 @localglobevc
🇳🇬 octerracapital.com
🇬🇧 @OctopusVentures
🇺🇸 @OuiCapital
🇬🇧 @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 & @TemiMarcella🙏bit.ly/3Bnr7xE
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
What should a pre-seed/seed data room include? 👇
📜 deck
📽️ product demo (if relevant)
📝 cap table
📊 financials (historical + projections)
📈 market data
📒 customer contracts (if any)
📆 use of funds + key milestones
👩👩👦 team + board + advisors
👥 references
✨ 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 it’s spot on.
“You cannot overtake 15 cars when it’s sunny… but you can when it’s raining.”
-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
🚀 It's 1 day to go!!! 🚀
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.
🗣 Share with a female founder you know!
Ruby Nimkar retweeted
Your startup’s goal should be to build a product that 100 people love and can’t live without rather than a product a million people think is just okay. – at San Mateo, CA
Retweeting 10000 times !!
🫰🏾 @WhatsApp feature request: ability to do Whatsapp intros without needing to set up groups.
The story of India’s transition into identifying an entire population is honestly mind blowing. Imagine operational and logistical challenge of getting a national identity for 1bn people
Aadhaar enrolment for newborns along with birth certificates is expected to be available in all states in the next few months, expanding beyond 16 states currently offering the facility business-standard.com/articl…
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 📊to spot patterns & analyze returns
🧵to share high level findings, but to dig deeper, download the full report👇
🔗bit.ly/3Cf17Uv
