Lewam Kefela
Principal - Africa Fund at Partech
Nairobi County
Overview
Work Experience
Principal - Africa Fund
2022 - Current
Partech Africa is a multi-stage venture fund dedicated to investing in strong entrepreneurs building tech enabled businesses to transform industries in Africa. If you're a founder raising a Seed+ to Series C - please reach out to us!
Co-Founder
2020
A series of newsletters and conversations focused on telling Africa's growth story. Join us on a journey to discover, learn, and build a blueprint for what African success stories could look like.
Investment Director
2020 - 2022
Leading the early stage investment strategy at Village Capital. We find, train, and invest in entrepreneurs solving major world problems in financial services, healthcare, energy, sustainable agriculture and education. Investments: Kader (MENA), Houm (LatAm), Finerio (LatAm) & more
Financial Solutions for Migrants initiative promotes financial inclusion for migrants, refugees, and women.
Investment Associate
2018 - 2020
VilCap Investments invests in early-stage startups creating solutions to global challenges in financial services, healthcare, energy, sustainable agriculture and education. Investments: Youverify, Fintual, Global Data Consortium (acquired), Mutuo Financiera, Vexi, Siembro, NurseDash, Billpocket, Advocatia, and more
Analyst
2014 - 2017
Emerging markets
Carlyle Global Partners (CGP), the firm’s first long-dated private equity fund.
Finance & Ops (Pre-IPO)
2012 - 2013
Workiva created Wdesk, a cloud-based platform for enterprises to collect, manage, report, and analyze critical business data in real time.
Raised $680,583,497.00 from Bluestem Capital.