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Hello and welcome to Business Daily Meets from the BBC World Service. I'm Sam Fennick.

Today, what it's like to build one startup in Silicon Valley and then build another in West Africa's fastest growing tech hub, Accra.

I think there's a sense here that people have your back. You're always in community.

It's a leap that says a lot about where global entrepreneurship is heading, from the well-funded

world of California venture capital to Africa's rapidly expanding digital economy.

When people hear my accent, they assume that I took a flight back to San Francisco and

raised all our money, but that's not true. My guest is Harvard graduate Mishay Addy,

who launched her first company in San Francisco in the United States before moving to Ghana, where she founded a logistics firm.

I was raised by parents who encourages to think about our impact on the world.

We'll hear how she's bridging two very different business cultures,

what she's learned about bias and resilience as a female founder, and how her company

is tackling some of the toughest challenges in African trade. That's all coming up on today's

Business Daily. As soon as I stepped off of the plane, I felt just a different energy.

You can feel in the air.

There's a sense of possibility and an energy to it.

It's also hot.

That weather is very hot.

There's a certain liveliness to the atmosphere that I think is really unique to

West Africa especially.

Fresh off a plane from San Francisco, Mishay arrived in Accra in 2017.

She was full of hope for her own future and for Garner's.

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