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Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture VoicesEloho Omame: A Female Investor’s Perspective on the VC Market in Africa Hosts Raquel Smith and Tolulope “Tolu” Adetayo speak with Africa-focused technology venture capital investor Eloho Omame about her career; Africa’s investment potential due to its impressive scale of market and pace of growth; and what she looks for when she invests, such as the ambition and strategy of the founding team, the accessibility of the market in question, and the structure of the deal. Eloho also discusses how she co-founded FirstCheck Africa, a female-led, female-focused angel fund, and the data she’s seen that indicates female-led companies perform better. Speakers: Raquel Smith, Counsel, Africa Practice...2024-09-0530 min
The FlipUnlocking Gender-Smart Capital At Scale (2X Global's Jessica Espinoza)Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a mere 2% of all the funding in Africa last year. There is a huge gender funding gap. How do we close it?This episode is the last episode of a five-episode series on gender lens investing, co-hosted by Eloho Omame, Founding Partner of First Check Africa, an early-stage fund backing female-led startups. Each episode of this series will explore a different level of the fundraising value chain. I...2024-03-0737 min
The FlipThe Mastercard Foundation is Investing $150 Million into 20 Gender Lens FundsDespite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a mere 2% of all the funding in Africa last year. There is a huge gender funding gap. How do we close it?This episode is the fourth of a five-episode series on gender lens investing, co-hosted by Eloho Omame, Founding Partner of First Check Africa, an early-stage fund backing female-led startups. Each episode of this series will explore a different level of the fundraising value chain. The M...2024-02-2946 min
The FlipInvesting in Women is an Economic Imperative (Tokunboh Ishmael, Andreata Muforo)Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a mere 2% of all the funding in Africa last year. There is a huge gender funding gap. How do we close it?This episode is the third of a five-episode series on gender lens investing, co-hosted by Eloho Omame, Founding Partner of First Check Africa, an early-stage fund backing female-led startups. Each episode of this series will explore a different level of the fundraising value chain. In t...2024-02-2258 min
The FlipThis Angel Investor is Closing the Gender Funding Gap (Rising Tide Africa's Yemi Keri)Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a mere 2% of all the funding in Africa last year. There is a huge gender funding gap. How do we close it?This episode is the second of a five-episode series on gender lens investing, co-hosted by Eloho Omame, Founding Partner of First Check Africa, an early-stage fund backing female-led startups. Each episode of this series will explore a different level of the fundraising value chain. In t...2024-02-1534 min
The FlipWhy is only 2% of funding going to female founders?Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a mere 2% of all the funding in Africa last year. There is a huge gender funding gap. How do we close it?This episode is the first of a five-episode series on gender lens investing, co-hosted by Eloho Omame, Founding Partner of First Check Africa, an early-stage fund backing female-led startups. Each episode of this series will explore a different level of the fundraising value chain. In t...2024-02-0857 min
Founders ConnectInterview with Eloho Omame, Cofounder of First Check, Former MD Endeavor Nigeria.Eloho Omame is the co-founder of First Check, a Venture Capital firm giving women-led companies their first seed investments. Before First Check, she was the MD and CEO of Endeavor, a company dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs to scale. In this Founders Connect interview, Eloho shares her unique journey and all the varied facets that have contributed to her current phase. She talks to us about growing up in a wealthy family, studying in the UK, starting her career as an investment banker, moving back to Nigeria and the reasons behind it, building her companies, and finally, the mistakes and lessons...2023-12-1151 min
Disrupt PodcastDP #54: Diversity dividend - Female fund managers in Africa - Eloho OmameWomen have always been underrepresented in the venture capital space worldwide. Some of the earliest research from the US (2018) found that only nine per cent of VC decision makers were women. In Africa, new data by Disrupt Africa shows some more promising trends - 39.6 per cent of VCs actively investing on the continent in 2022 had a female partner or founder - yet less than 10 per cent of angels are women. With data demonstrating a direct link between gender diversity in teams, and increased profitability, the "Diversity dividend: Female fund managers in Africa" series looks at firms that recognise this truth...2023-10-1509 min
Disrupt PodcastDP #46: The month in VC - episode 6Co-hosted by Gabriella Mulligan and Tom Jackson, “The month in VC” is a regular deep-dive into the Africa’s investment space. Produced in partnership with Katapult Africa, Kalon Venture Partners, Hlayisani Capital, and ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator, each episode wraps up the latest news in African VC, profiles a leading investor, and digs into a key theme or trend in conversation with partner VCs.
Episode six sees Gabriella talk to Eloho Omame from TLcom Capital and FirstCheck Africa, and look at exit strategies in the investment space.2023-07-3021 min
The Connecting Africa PodcastS2 Ep. 7 - Gender-lens investingIn this Connecting Africa Podcast we discuss gender-lens investing in Africa and are joined by Eloho Omame who is the co-founder of FirstCheck Africa.
2023-05-1739 min
Built ToughS1, EP4 - Eloho Omame, Co-Founder and Principal of FirstCheck Africa – Investing in Africa’s female founders“There's a general kind of acknowledgment that there is an excellent layer of female operators in Africa in general. But it's really interesting when it then comes to allocating capital as investors, for whatever reason, we don't translate that operational capacity, that managerial excellence, into effectively trust around ownership.” Eloho Omame, FirstCheck Africa Partner and Co-Founder. Eloho Omame is an early-stage investor and a strong advocate for gender and inclusion in VC in Africa. She's a Partner at TLcom Capital, a seed-to-growth stage VC firm, and a Co-Founder & General Partner at FirstCheck Africa, an early-stage VC firm inves...2022-09-1328 min
The VA PodHerstoryThis week on Herstory, Odun Eweniyi and Eloho Omame launches First Check Africa, a female-led angel fund, more African women join the Amujae Initiative, and South African activist launches a safe taxi company for women.2021-02-0105 min