Ep 162 African Startup Ecosystem with Gavin Reardon

Ep 162 African Startup Ecosystem with Gavin Reardon

Show Notes Gavin Reardon

Gavin is a founder, investor and entrepreneur specialist. Before founding Kingson, Gavin provided financial leadership to a fintech that grew revenues to more than USD 50 million before being acquired. Gavin understands the nuances and challenges that face entrepreneurs and how the right investment can unlock accelerated growth. In Kingson, Gavin provides strategic leadership to the development of the Kingson funds and portfolio construction of the underlying businesses. He focuses on capital raising and deal making and loves the people aspect of seeing strategy and execution combined into operational excellence.

As a VC, Gavin focuses on mobile, data and IoT across financial, insurance and health tech investing in emerging startups that have both reach and scale to solve real-world problems.

We talk about

What are some of the biggest surprises for the startup founders when they arrive in Silicon Valley from Africa?

What is the current VC landscape in South Africa?

What is the background of many of the Investors in Africa?

What areas of Tech are African companies excelling in?

What is the biggest misconception about the African startup ecosystem?

Connect with Gavin Reardon

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavreardon/

gavin@kingsoncapital.com

https://kingsoncapital.com/

Gav Reardon (@GavReardon) / Twitter

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