BNS Womens’ Month: What Women Entrepreneurs Really Need to Win With Investors
Women across Africa are building businesses, networks, track records, often with nothing but their own capital and conviction. Yet despite that effort, the African Development Bank estimates a $49 billion financing gap still stands between female entrepreneurs and the funding they need to scale. That gap is a reflection of who gets believed, who gets access, and whose vision investors are willing to bet on. Kofoworola Omowale has spent her career interrogating exactly that. With a background spanning law, private equity, and venture capital, and experience across Kuramo Capital, Future Africa, and the Nigerian Exchange Group, she brings a rare dual perspective: the systems that move capital, and the women too often shut out of them. For BNS Women’s Month Money Week, she breaks down why women bootstrap by strategy not fear, what female founders must understand before walking into a pitch room, and what it will truly take to build an ecosystem that responds equitably to the work women are already doing. Hello Kofoworola. How are you feeling today? Hello! I am alright, thank you. Amazing. Let’s get right into it. From your work designing programs for women entrepreneurs, what patterns have you noticed about why women overwhelmingly choose […]
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