WE INVITED ADESUWA FOUNDER AND CEO OF ARUWA CAPITAL FOR A CONVERSATION ABOUT GENDER LENS INVESTING IN AFRICA. IN OUR CONVERSATION, WE ATTEMPTED TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES AROUND FEMALE ENTREPRENUERSHIP AND THE NEED TO HAVE MORE FEMALE CAPITAL DEPLOYERS.
Brief Adesuwa:
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is currently the Founder and Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital Management, one of the few growth equity and gender lens funds in Africa closing gender gaps across society.
Adesuwa spent 5 years as a Managing Partner of Syntaxis Capital Africa, a provider of growth capital to SMEs in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan Africa. At Syntaxis Africa, she led transactions totalling more than $200 million across SSA. Prior to co-founding Syntaxis Africa in 2014, Adesuwa was in the Leveraged Finance and M&A teams at J.P. Morgan in London, where she was involved in $5.6 billion worth of transactions across emerging markets including Nigeria.
