HUMANS OF KUBATANA MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2022
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WHY DOES YOUR HUB EXIST? Pangea’s mission is to solve Africa’s biggest challenges by connecting the different players to identify innovations, unlock investments and accelerate growth for African-owned businesses. Pangea Trust empowers entrepreneurs with access to competence, networks and capital to continue growing their reach and footprint, even as Pangea establishes itself on the continent as the go-to business accelerator and investment platform. Our objective is to provide knowledge on business development and entrepreneurship, therefore, increasing access to opportunities that inspire and stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship across Africa. HOW IS YOUR HUB ACHIEVING ITS GOAL? Pangea, in its role as the link between ideas, competence and knowledge, as well as investment resources, collaborates, and creates an environment for all attendant parties to benefit from the available resources. Pangea has worked with partners to map out diaspora investment opportunities for Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia among other partners. Pangea also created the Pangea Connect platform which is an online platform for investors to pool their funds together in small ticket sizes of at least $100. Pangea Connect offers reliability, speed, the safety of funds, low cost and ease of use; and presents
an online alternative for crowd-funding and investments to leverage available options. WHAT ROLE HAS AFRILABS PLAYED IN YOUR HUB’S JOURNEY? Pangea has participated in events that AfriLabs has organised, like the AfriLabs Hubs Learning Week. We have tapped into its vast network of stakeholders including startups, investors, corporates, regulatory and policy agencies; and research and development support organisations through various stakeholders’ sessions. AfriLabs and Pangea have also been able to collaborate and partner through various projects which have been of benefit to the hub. AfriLabs has provided Pangea with pan-African visibility as a support area through our strategic partnership.
AFRILABS ANNE LAWI MANAGING DIRECTOR & CEO PANGEA TRUST KENYA
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