For the better part of of the last decade, I’ve been building something. Perhaps I should have been writing more about it while I was building but sometimes you get so much into the weeds (pun…
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Launching a Ugandan Beauty Brand from Scratch During a Global Pandemic
February 7, 2022 Agriculture Entrepreneurship investment Raintree FarmsThe story of how Qwezi Beauty came to be…
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Nothing like a refreshing vacation in the mountains to clear your mind and get you enthusiastic about starting off the year. Collectively, we’ve been through hell and back the last two years. I’ve mostly been in…
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If you’re in the US and are health conscious, you probably have heard about Kuli Kuli. They are a California-based moringa products company and have been the biggest promoters of the benefits of moringa in North…
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Yield Uganda Investment Fund invests in Raintree Farms, an innovative agri-ceutical concept
June 27, 2019 Agriculture Appearances news Raintree FarmsThe Yield Uganda Investment Fund is proud to announce its fifth investment in Uganda by making a commitment to invest UGX 3.9Bn to Raintree Farms Limited, a pioneering agri-ceutical enterprise specialising in the production and processing of organic moringa.…
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I’ve been at Raintree for a few weeks now. The start of the new harvest season in April is always chaotic. I’ve taken to waking up earlier than anyone else lately. Not because I have something…
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How Uganda’s agricultural sector is coping with climate change
April 25, 2019 Agriculture Climate Change Economy Raintree Farms VideoI joined CNBC Africa host Makeda on her Power Lunch program to discuss the on-going drought and how it’s affecting the region. The delayed rains put quit the damper on the start of our production year.…
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Serena Williams’ “secret” venture capital portfolio includes one of Africa’s best-known startups
April 23, 2019 investment technologyAlongside Andela, Serena Ventures has also backed Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Masterclass, the online learning platform and Wave, a remittance service that’s available in five African countries. I’ve been a user of Wave’s brilliantly…
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It’s been a week since Rocket Internet’s Jumia debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The stock (so far) has been met with the type bullish exuberance only Wall Street can muster, sending the stock…
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Tiny Spark: What Can We Do About The White Savior Complex?
April 20, 2019 Appearances International DevelopmentMy second appearance on the Tiny Spark podcast is probably my favorite, only because I only found out after the episode was published that the entire episode was full of some of my favorite people. I…
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