‘How to Startup’ Program Launch
Tuesday, 19 March @ 6-8pm EAT
Nairobi Garage Kilimani – 7th Floor, Pinetree Plaza, Nairobi, Kenya
We are inviting you to the CatalyzU ‘How to Startup’ Launch. It’s a curated course to aspiring founders and operators looking to build remarkable ventures across Africa, sustainably. Here are a few themes you’d learn in this program:
Foundational knowledge
Customer focus and engagement
Market strategy and gowth
Startup operations
Leadership development
Crisis management and resilience
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Karl Nchite
CEO and Co-founder - CatalyzU
Karl was born in Botswana to Swedish and Zambian entrepreneurs but spent most of his upbringing in South Africa where he attended university. He started his career as a research associate at Goodwell Investments, an impact-focused venture capital firm with €350 million AUM, and quickly rose to become an investment associate. Today, he manages two portfolio companies and serves as an observer on their boards. Karl co-founded Young African Catalysts, a tech-enabled ecosystem to help young Africans upskill, hire talent, and attract investment.
Peng Chen
CEO and Co-founder – HustleSasa
Meet Peng Chen, Co-Founder and CEO, Hustle Sasa and Co-Founder, The Alchemist. He has over a decade of experience in scaling startups at the intersection of technology, creativity, and social entrepreneurship.
Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani
MANAGING PARTNER – Future Africa
Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani is passionate about helping African startups realize their potential, and leverages precise strategic acumen mixed with a healthy dose of empathy.
She learned that both are essential to a company’s success as an operator, venture capitalist, angel investor, and entrepreneur who co-founded and navigated her own startup through an exit.
Born in Germany, Mia attended Harvard Business School, where she earned her MBA, before moving to Africa in 2009 and adopting the continent as her own. After helping start the Johannesburg and Nairobi offices of the Boston Consulting Group, she co-founded the startup DukaConnect in the retail and AI space, which she later exited to Mastercard.
Prior to joining Pan-African VC firm, Future Africa as Managing Partner, Mia was a Partner at climate focused firm, Persistent Energy Capital, as well as an active angel investor and advisor across the continent. She lives in Kenya with her husband and four children.
Michelle Hassan
DIRECTOR – JobTech Alliance
Experienced financial inclusion specialist with over 13 years of experience working alongside development finance institutions, banks and startups to understand low-income consumers and develop products designed to meet their needs.
Specialties: Inclusive tech, qualitative and quantitative user research, financial diaries, MSMEs, refugee finance, gender, program design and implementation.