What’s Your Story is a podcast from Tech Labari, an online publication covering technology stories from Ghana and Africa. In each episode, Tech Labari creator Joseph-Albert Kuuire talks to entrepreneurs, creatives, and business people about the brands, projects, and companies they've built and are currently building. Hear the backstories of African entrepreneurs and personalities trying to make a difference with what they’ve built.
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In this episode, we talk to Mimi Kufuor, a Ghanaian finance veteran now leading operations at KoinKoin, an Africa-focused cryptocurrency exchange.
From her childhood split between Accra and Manhattan, to a creative youth shaped by her dressmaker mother, Mimi explains how she chose economics over early dreams of computer science or law, landed on Credit Suisse’s trading floor, led strategy projects across investment banks, joined Meta during lockdown, and ultimately leapt into a fintech startup building a Coinbase-style platform for the continent.
Nearly three years into the new company, she discusses the early struggles of crypto adoption, Ghana’s new regulatory framework, and why digital assets can tackle Africa’s currency instability, high remittance costs, and cross-border challenges.
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14 Jul 2024
Yasmin Kumi, Founder of Africa Foresight Group
On today's episode, we spoke to Yasmin Kumi, the founder of the Africa Foresight Group (https://africaforesight.com/). Yasmin was born to German and Ghanaian parents and lived most of her life in Germany.
She worked as a senior consultant for McKinsey & Company, where she advised clients in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, and South Africa in the consumer goods and banking industry. But in 2016, she decided to start her own company, which she called Africa Foresight Group, which focused on Africa and consultancy. In 2020, the company raised $700,000 in seed funding from investors.
Check out more about the business here: Africaforesight.com (Africaforesight.com)
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7 Jul 2024
Yanmo Omorogbe, Co-founder and COO of Bamboo
Yanmo Omorogbe is the co-founder and COO of Bamboo, a digital investment platform that gives Nigerians real-time access to buy, sell or hold assets traded on the US stock exchange from their mobile phones or computers.
Before becoming COO of Bamboo, Yanmo worked at the Ministry of Power in Nigeria and then worked at an infrastructure investment firm. After struggling to purchase stocks and other assets from Nigeria, she and her co-founder decided to try and fix that problem.
In 2019, they launched Bamboo, and in 2022, raised $17 million in their Series A round.
Learn more about the company here: investbamboo.com (investbamboo.com)
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