Africa Startup Series – Zachariah George, Launch Africa Ventures - The Evolution of Tech In Africa Had To Always Start With Fintech | #358

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In episode 358, we welcome our guest, Zachariah George, Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures, Africa’s leading early-stage VC fund, and the co-founder and CIO of Startupbootcamp AfriTech, the leading venture accelerator program in Africa. In today’s episode, we start by hearing how volunteering at an African orphanage changed Zach’s life, convincing him to leave Wall Street and move to Africa to eventually launch the first accelerator there. Then we hear about all the areas technology is touching that Zach is excited about, including education, healthcare, finance, transportation, and more. As we wind down, Zach shares the challenges companies face when navigating the different countries across the continent. Please enjoy this episode with Launch Africa Ventures’ Zach George. ----- 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 ----- Today’s episode is brought to you by Vinovest. Vinovest makes it easy to invest in fine wine. Vinovest’s investment platform lets you buy and sell wines that have increased in value like Screaming Eagle and Chateau Lafite. Vinovest provides you with access to some of the finest wines in the world, and takes care of the storage, insurance and authentication of each wine in your portfolio. You can get started in just minutes online. Go to vinovest.co to create an account and invest in fine wine today. 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 Mebb favor 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	Meck Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.3	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambria's funds on this podcast.
0:27.1	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.
0:35.6	Today we have an episode in our Africa startup series.
0:42.2	If you look out the horizon in the next few decades,
0:44.3	arguably no place in the world has more tailwinds in Africa. And right now, these
0:48.0	startup scene in Africa is on fire with amazing companies being founded, 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 and
1:00.3	Smile Identity, but in addition to these world-changing startups will also talk to those
1:04.4	that are boots on the ground investing and allocating across the continent to learn firsthand about
1:09.1	why Africa presents such a unique opportunity today.
1:15.6	This episode is brought to you by 10 East. Long time listeners know I've invested in private markets quite a bit myself,
1:19.8	but with access to these markets broadening,
1:22.0	it can be hard to know where to find vetted high quality offerings.
1:25.2	That's where Ten East comes in. Ten East is a platform where qualified investors can co-invest on a deal by deal basis
1:32.4	across private equity, private credit, real estate, venture, and other one-off opportunities typically unavailable through traditional channels.
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