The funding gap in start-up investing | Temie Giwa-Tubosun
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The Eros Journey
556 women blistered death every single day across southern Africa. I decided as a woman who had sat on that hospital bed 7 years ago, wondering whether she was going to survive childbirth, that I had a duty to do something about this. We built technology with over 200,000 lines of code that matches supply to demand and we closed the loop by delivering to the last mile. In 2016, when this company started, we had one single desk at a co-working space. And now, as you speak, we operate across Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia. But no part of this journey did not start easy. Because while I recognized the size of the problem, I knew people like me
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