Episode 105: Breaking Impact: Focus on Francophone Africa

November 22, 2021 Matteo Rizzi Breaking Banks Europe 00:46:55 Comments Off on Episode 105: Breaking Impact: Focus on Francophone Africa

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What makes francophone Africa such a specific region of the continent to conduct and grow innovation? With a vibrant startup ecosystem and growing access to investors, different entrepreneurs, institutions, and governments support and engage to enhance the growth of digital industries and strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Get to know two stellar stakeholders in the region – Hanae Bezad (Beehane), Raphael Dana (Gozem) are hosted by Matteo Rizzi – and accompanied by a special participation of Alex Sea: founder of the Africa FinTech Forum, taking place this week in Abidjan.

More on the guests:

Raphael Dana
Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaeldana/
Gozem: https://gozem.co/en/

Hanae Bezad
Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanaebezad/
Beehane: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beehane-llc/about/

Alex Sea
Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexsea/
Africa FinTech Forum: africafintechforum.net

Author, Co-Founder of FTS Group, BBE Executive Producer
About the Author
Matteo Rizzi is an unconventional entrepreneur with two decades of experience in Financial Services, constantly referred amongst the top executives in the industry. He spent 13 years at SWIFT - where he co-founded Innotribe, the innovation arm of the cooperative, launching the first global startup challenge. Since 2013, he has had a FinTech Investor and/or Venture Partner role with global VCs and CVCs (20+ deals, 5 exits). In 2015, he co-founded FinTechStage (now FTSGroup.eu) - a platform for Investors and Innovators to boost FinTech innovation globally. In 2019, Matteo founded Timepledge.org a global initiative to foster financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. The same year he launched Breaking Banks Europe (as the Executive Producer). In 2023, he was appointed Senior Advisor for Elevandi (MAS). He is the author of "The FinTech Revolution" and "Talents & Rebels" and is fluent in 5 languages. X:https://twitter.com/matteorizzi Website: https://matteorizzi.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matteorizziofficial Linkedln:https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteorizzi/ Provoke: https://provoke.fm/author/matteo/
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