Kara Ventures

We are a collective of tech angels investing in early-stage startups in Africa. This side fund is powered by Réna Kakon and Jérémy Goillot. We write checks of $25k – $100k and support founders on GTM strategy, hiring, legal ops & fundraising. Let's accelerate your path to Series A with super angels on your captable! Réna and Jérémy are traveling across Africa 🌍 for 18 months to meet founders. Investing with passion across sectors and geographies. Previously in 🇸🇳 Senegal, 🇷🇼 Rwanda, 🇲🇺 Mauritius, 🇰🇪 Kenya, 🇲🇦 Morocco,🇹🇳 Tunisia, 🇺🇬 Uganda, 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇬🇭 Ghana, 🇳🇬 Nigéria, 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast On this page, we will share our learnings about AfricaTech and our investments.

Exploring the Rise of Embedded Insurance Solutions in Emerging Markets ! 🌍 Embedded insurance is revolutionizing accessibility and coverage, particularly in regions like Africa. Our Kara Ventures deep dive explores how startups are leveraging technology to democratize access to insurance and drive financial inclusion. From Nigeria with Curacel,  improving claims processing to Ghana with MIC Global, committed to enhancing insurance accessibility in the region, these innovative solutions are reshaping the landscape of risk management. 🚀 Curious to learn more? Click the link below to dive into our comprehensive analysis! ✨ Lien de l'article : https://lnkd.in/erxqsCVr #startups #africa #deepdive #insurance

Kara Ventures x Tech Safari x GITEX AFRICA Réna Kakon and Caleb Maru are bringing together founders and investors in magical Marrakech to kick off Africa's largest tech conference. Excited for our first edition of our AfricaTech enthusiasts event in Morocco 🇲🇦

💳 Corporate Cards in Egypt 🇪🇬, one of Jérémy Goillot's favorite business challenges (#Spendesk) Egypt is and will remain one of the largest economies in the MENA region: 111 million inhabitants and millions of businesses. Swypex raised 4 million with Accel and launched the first Corporate Card that REALLY works in Egypt. You cannot imagine how complex it is for businesses to access a credit card and a bank account in Egypt… Stellar team tackling a challenging problem. Congrats Ahmad Mokhtar, Tarek Mokhtar, and Sasan Hezarkhani! Exciting to be on this journey with you.

A dash of African wisdom before the weekend 🐆 🐆 🐆 6 African sayings posted by Ghanaian entrepreneur Timothy Armoo. Our favorite one is #2 "Rain beats the leopard's skin but it does not wash out the spots" 🐆 🐆 🐆 Grrrr The Kara Ventures team wishes you a wonderful weekend 🐆 🐆 🐆 https://lnkd.in/drFT4xCi

🧡 YC W24 x KARA VENTURES ! We got our orange ticket. Last week we were invited for the 1st time as official partners of YC for W24 YC Demo Day. It's a big thing for young tech angels fund. How did we get our ticket? Our best guess is that YC's algorithm picked up our names as we invested in Capi Money, Cleva (YC W24), and Triply.co in 2023 before their acceptance to the program. Did we fly to SF for the event? No, we attended virtually, but we can't wait to discover the new YC campus in the Dogpatch - Réna Kakon is super excited about it as she lived in this neighborhood almost 10 years ago when the only cool place was the 3rd Street Boxing Gym. Worth attending? 100%. You learn a lot about trends. The energy level is unmatched, even virtually. Valuations? Startups are over-hyped and it's extremely competitive to get in the rounds, 70% of founders I connected with closed their rounds before the end of the first day. I haven't seen a valuation below $16M post, even for freshly baked pivots. It's just a different world. YC brand is still very strong and Silicon Valley is still attracting incredible talents. Amazing!! Our crush? MathDash - online math competitions. Think of a mix of chess.com and Duolingo with a math Olympiad twist. Excited about the impact it could have for Africa's young talents. Next time, in person with Jérémy Goillot and Réna Kakon!

Jérémy Goillot, one of the co-founders of Kara.Ventures, raised $3.8M Pre-Seed for his new startup: The Mobile-First Company. The GOAL of Kara.Ventures, along with the passion and energy that Jérémy will dedicate to the African Ecosystem, is unchanged. This brings us closer to the entrepreneur; we understand how DIFFICULT it is to build a startup, we're doing it ourselves!

🌟 We are looking for our first Founders Associate to shape the future of tech in Africa with us! Want to shadow Jérémy Goillot and Réna Kakon for 3-6 months? Want to dive into Agritech, Cleantech, and Fintech across Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa? 🌟 Our dream Founders Associate has a creative and analytical mind, and an incredible thirst for entrepreneurship in emerging markets. 🌍 Ready for an adventure with potential for growth, travel, and impact? Link in the comments to apply. Superstars out there, we can't wait to meet you!!

Dear Kara Ventures Community, We Wish You a Fantastic 2024 💫 Let's continue to dream big together. In 2023, Jérémy Goillot 〽️ & Réna Kakon pushed forward their vision for a night and weekend tech angels fund investing in early-stage startups in Africa! → We organized 2 events in Paris to create a community of African Tech enthusiasts. → We spent time in Egypt, Namibia, Zambia, Morocco, and South Africa. → We improved the website, produced some content for founders, and improved SEO. → We have invested massively in our Stack to automate our job, looking forward to presenting AfricaX to you. → We received 723 decks this year! We still need to improve our ability to respond quickly. In 2024 we want to invest in Morocco, South Africa, Zambia, and Nigeria, in AgriTech, CleanTech, HealthTech, and Fintech. Bring it on!!