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Overcoming Barriers as a Female Founder in Africa

Join HubSpot and guests for an important and insightful session where we hear from African female founders and VCs on the unique challenges they have to overcome to be taken seriously as a startup founder.

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About the Session

In recent years, women's entrepreneurship in Africa has surged as a powerful and influential presence. Within a continent renowned for its rich cultures, abundant resources, and entrepreneurial drive, African women are increasingly asserting themselves in the business arena.

However, all is far from perfect for these founders. Multiple studies have shown female founders in Africa face challenges their European or US-based counterparts will never meet.

From the lack of funding on the African continent, to lack of business networks and mentorship, cultural biases and stereotypes, these founders often struggle to grow beyond their communities, let alone their countries.

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And hear from African female founders themselves, on the obstacles they are currently navigating.

We'll also be joined by female VCs who have insight into the bigger picture, and can help provide us with knowledge into how we can raise awareness of the female-founded startups coming from the continent, and also empower more African women to take on the challenge of entrepreneurship!

What will this session cover?

Hear Kefiloe Monaheng and Dr Portia's story of being two female founders from South Africa. Understand;
- The problem their startup is trying to solve
- The challenges they've faced as women in the industry
- What they want to achieve next on their journey of entrepreneurship
Mesh Ventures's Tochi Ginigeme, will delve into her experience as a successful female founder who's now helping Africa-based startups and SMEs launch and scale their businesses.
Finally, we hear from Tendai Mugabe at 54Collective, who walks us through the how female founders can navigate this challenging environment when trying to scale beyond the continent.

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Meet the Speakers

Kefiloe Monaheng - Co-Founder & Director of Product Design @ Wise Mind

Kefiloe is a skilled product designer with a strong financial background. Her experience in various industries, including insurance, finance and healthcare, allows her to approach challenges uniquely.

Driven by a passion for tackling meaningful challenges, Kefiloe combines technology, design, and business strategy to deliver solutions that resonate with customers. She works with businesses, entrepreneurs, and creatives to develop products and services that align with their vision and goals.

As a co-founder of MediUX, a clinic and practice management software company, Kefiloe is dedicated to improving efficiency, profitability, and the patient experience in the healthcare industry.

Tochi Ginigeme - Founder, Consultant & Startup Advisor @ Mesh Ventures Partners

Tochi Ginigeme is the founder and managing partner at Mesh Ventures, an entrepreneurship support organisation that works with investment vehicle managers, venture capital firms, angel investment syndicates, impact organisations, and corporate institutions to address the challenges MSMEs face in accessing the financial, educational, and business support services required for them to scale.

Mesh is on a mission to become the partner of choice for MSMEs and fund managers in Africa by providing a highly adaptable suite of services, programmes, and tools relevant for fund managers at different stages of the investment cycle—from market research and due diligence to programme execution, and post-investment monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.

After over a decade of corporate work experience across multiple sectors and firms of different sizes (startups to Fortune 500s), Tochi gained her MBA from the University of Oxford (UK) and has further extended her education with executive courses in business and leadership from Harvard Business School and INSEAD. She is committed to supporting the development of entrepreneurship on the continent, steadfast in the belief that MSMEs can, with the right support, contribute to job creation, long-term economic growth, and positive environmental and social benefits.

Tendai Mugabe - Business Support Program Lead @ 54 Collective

Tendai is a qualified Master of Law graduate (LLM) with over 15 years experience in both corporate and Non-Governmental Organisations NGOs. A globally exposed individual with depth and expertise managing and coordinating projects across mainly Southern Africa, East & West Africa.

A democratic leader at heart who believes in employee engagement as the key to innovation and productivity she has led high performing successful teams on numerous projects.

Her interests and areas of work cover Children’s Rights, Women’s Rights, and Economic Development. She is passionate about the advancement of women in business, through partnering them with strategic partners to help grow their business as she herself ran a successful kids hair salon in 2016.

Tendai is also an admitted attorney, with an LLB in from Rhodes and an LLM in Company Law from Witwatersrand University.

Dolly Jaiyeola - Principal Account Director @ HubSpot

Dolly has a passion for helping companies in Sub-Saharan Africa grow better using HubSpot CRM. Dolly has a strong and noteworthy background in sales, having worked at the likes of Salesforce and Google.

Bringing her sales knowledge to HubSpot, Dolly is an expert in helping African-based founders and business leaders build durable sales and marketing processes that lead to growth and even more conversions.

Dr Portia Mosadi - Medical Director of Mosadi Wellness Centres, CEO @ P&L Consulting and Founding Member @ MediUX

Dr Portia Mosadi is a qualified female obstetrician & gynaecologist, who has dedicated her life’s work to dynamically evolving the gynaecology space through her “beyond medicine” approach to women’s sexual and reproductive health. She has held various positions in both private and public healthcare in South Africa, including being a Medical Director for GlaxoSmithKline Southern Africa and principal investigator in clinical trials for Wits Health Consortium. She has also served as the Acting Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Polokwane Provincial Hospital.

She is the Medical Director of Mosadi Wellness Centres (mother and baby centres currently based in Polokwane and expanding into Gauteng), Chief Executive Officer of P&L Consulting (Practice management and healthcare consulting company) and founding member of MediUX (Practice management software company).

She has also started a line of women’s health products called OPVital and has collaborated with various organizations in the development of other products. She successfully started and managed an employee wellness clinic within a steel manufacturing plant in Gauteng called Badiri Health.

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