Mar 16 2013in marketing Mbwana No Comments »
This is a guest post by Agnes Sokol who spent a month assisting in putting together marketing plans for the 1st Savannah accelerator in Nairobi, Kenya: Spending time with the startups of Savannah Fund proved to be a unique opportunity to think about marketing in a context quite different than my own. Coming from [...]
Read moreDec 1 2012in investment themes Mbwana No Comments »
In a recent Forbes article, I outlined the need for investors in Africa of all types to get better at messaging what areas they invest in. Its not enough to just say “we are an early stage tech investor” anymore. The technology scene is getting larger and more and more startups, regions and verticals are [...]
Read moreSep 25 2012in Uncategorized Mbwana No Comments »
Earlier today, a twitter conversation I had with someone who was interested in working with Savannah Fund resulted in one the best e-mail intro formats. It quickly helped me decide whether it was worth further. It took me less than 1 minute to establish whether to continue to connect or not. We constantly get people [...]
Read moreAug 18 2012in investment, News Mbwana No Comments »
I am happy to announce Savannah Fund’s first seed investment- biNu mobile- we participated in this round along with Eric Schmidt of Tomorrow Ventures and a number of other Angels investors. The story of how Savannah Fund became involved in biNu started early this year when I was in the middle of fundraising for the [...]
Read moreJun 7 2012in News admin No Comments »
We are excited for the launch of Savannah Fund at Pivot East conference in Nairobi this week. Thought it would be good to provide some clarification on the fund. Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups addressing the Sub-Saharan Africa market. [...]
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