OUR MISSION

Why We Exist

Noreen Makosewe - A woman in a white dress standing in a London street
Noreen Makosewe - A woman in a white dress standing in a London street

Female Founders Africa™ is an initiative powered by The Radical Leap Group to build a pipeline of bankable women-owned businesses and prepare them for investment, working in collaboration with partners and investors.

Our mission is to help close the funding gap for African female founders by increasing bankability through skills development, increased market reach, technology adoption and investment-readiness preparation.

We see an Africa where more female founders build unicorns and become captains of industries that transform communities and economies.

Noreen Makosewe

Founder & M.D., The Radical Leap Group
Creator, Female Founders Africa™

"Despite the fact that women control roughly $20 trillion in annual customer spending globally (70–80% of total consumer purchasing), innovation and investment remains decisively in the hands of men... Inequity in innovation and investment leads to weak pipelines for investors to access female entrepreneurs, women-centered products being viewed as a niche market, and women entrepreneurs facing systemic challenges in accessing investment capital."

Source: Global Impact Investing Network

WHO WE SUPPORT & WHAT THEY NEED

Founders We Work With

Development Stage

Founders who feel they have ideas worth developing and need support to go from concept-to-reality and idea-to-income. We offer both:

  • 1-2-1 coaching

  • Group training

Growth Stage

Established founders focused on business growth and need support:

  • Dealing with increased market demand

  • Client acquisition and retention

  • Leadership and governance

  • Project management

  • Cost-cutting

  • Streamlining operations

  • Handling market competition

  • Local or global market expansion

  • Raising expansion capital

Start-Up Stage

Early stage founders in need of start-up support including but are not limited to:

  • Brand development & positioning

  • Marketing and sales

  • Hiring or retaining the right talent

  • Investment-readiness preparation

  • Financial management

  • Client relationship management

  • Implementing technology

  • Putting together systems and processes

  • Business process re-engineering

  • Digitising operations for efficiency

  • Leadership and governance

Our Collaboration Footprint

ORGANISATIONS WE HAVE WORKED WITH TO DATE

Visit Us

13th Floor Landmark Plaza
Argwings Kodhek Road
Nairobi, Kenya

Give Us A Call

+44 20 8638 6197 (UK)
+1 972 512 8801 (US)
+254 768 124 901 (KE)

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