Africa Startup Series – Aaron Fu, Sherpa Ventures - We Really Care About The Ability of Our Businesses To Uplift The Other Businesses in Africa | #359

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In episode 359, we welcome our guest, Aaron Fu, general partner for Sherpa Ventures, which focuses on pre-seed investments across Africa. He’s also the co-founder of Venture for Africa, a fellowship for those interested in working for early stage startups in Africa. In today’s episode, we hear from someone who’s seen the evolution of the African startup scene since he first moved there in 2015. We talk about the factors behind the explosive growth the continent has seen in the past few years. Then we hear what led Aaron to launch his own fund last year and the stories of companies he’s funded, which exemplify both the opportunities and challenges they face. As we wind down, Aaron shares the difference between the startup community in Africa and Silicon Valley. Please enjoy this episode with Sherpa Ventures’ Aaron Fu. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- This episode is sponsored by Masterworks. Masterworks is opening the doors to top-tier, blue-chip art investments to everyone. Visit masterworks.io/meb to skip their wait list. Today’s episode is sponsored by The Idea Farm. The Idea Farm gives you access to over $100,000 worth of investing research, the kind usually read by only the world’s largest institutions, funds, and money managers. Join today and get access to quarterly CAPE ratios, an excel quant backtester and the entire research library. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mepp Faber Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Meep Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.2	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambry's funds on this podcast.
0:27.0	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion
0:31.1	of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.4	For more information, visit cambria Investments.com.
0:37.0	Today we have an episode in our Africa startup series.
0:42.0	If you look out the horizon in the next few decades,
0:44.2	arguably no place in the world has more tailwinds in Africa. And right now,
0:47.8	these startup scene in Africa is on fire with amazing companies being founded,
0:52.1	fundraising records being set, and M&A heating up.
0:55.2	We've already featured some of the top companies from Africa, like Rocketship Unicorn Chipper Cash,
1:00.0	and Smile Identity, but in addition to these world-changing startups
1:03.2	will also talk to those that are boots on the ground investing and
1:06.2	allocating across the continent to learn firsthand about why Africa presents such
1:10.5	a unique opportunity today.
1:12.1	American Farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate.
1:16.4	According to the USDA, the US has lost four acres of farmland per minute since 2000.
1:22.0	That's a landmass larger than the state of Florida,
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