Lewam Kefela

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

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

Finance & Ops (Pre-IPO)

2012 - 2013