Shows
Africa Tech Summit PodcastEP36: The Truth About Venture Capital; Unveiling Today’s Trend & RealityListen to a live panel on "The Truth About Venture Capital; Unveiling Today’s Trend & Reality" recorded live at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi. Visit our website for more details and future events: www.africatechsummit.com.With Jason Njoku – Founder at NjokuZillaAndreata Muforo – Partner at TLcom CapitalSelma Farouk – Investment Analyst at DPI VCMaxime Bayen – Operating Partner at Catalyst Fund Eric Osiakwan – Founder and Managing Partner at Chanzo CapitalHighlights include🌍 Diverse Ecosystem: African investment opportunities span various sectors, with fintech and cli...
2025-12-1543 min
The FlipThis Funding Model is Helping Fight Climate ChangeThese climate investors are funding climate startups using a hands-on venture-building model to support founders across Africa. In this episode, we’re joined by James Mwangi from Africa Climate Ventures, Maxime Bayen from Catalyst Fund, and Lyndsay Holley Handler from Delta40.We discuss why African ventures and climate startups, in particular, benefit from the venture building model; the limitations of the traditional two and twenty fund model in the African tech ecosystem; the types of founders and opportunities these investors are looking for; the pitch these investors are making to global investors for why they sho...
2024-11-1148 min
SCIX African Trade TalksMaxime Bayen, Co-Founder of Africa the Big Deal In this episode, our guest is Maxime Bayen. Maxime is the head of venture building and lead venture partner, catalyst Fund. He's also co-founder Africa, the Big Deal. In this episode, you'll discover: -Maxim's experience doing business in Africa...00:45 -Big lessons learned to share with anyone interested in investing in Africa...03:00 -What is the highest and lowest ticket items Maxime invests in?...06:30 -Travel lessons, and impact from technology on investing...10:10 -Top three dealbreakers and impact makers on making a decision to invest...12:45 -The one thing Max...
2023-09-0820 min
Live The African Dream by Ajim Capital1: Why Africa Seems Immune to the Capital Market Downturn Faced by other Regions | Maxime Bayen, Africa: The Big DealToday we're launching the first episode of Live The African Dream Podcast.
Live The African Dream is a podcast inspired to gather the next generation of curious investors, entrepreneurs, and tech leaders to spark conversation around the topics they are passionate about. From building a business to raising money to the challenges and triumphs of being an African or Africa enthusiast on the continent and in the diaspora in today's world.
Whether running the show or working your way up the ladder, let's build something great. Tune in for exclusive interviews with seasoned investors, entrepreneurs...
2022-07-2731 min
T2S2GSMA's Max Cuvellier on fintech's remarkable rise in Africa – T2S2Max Cuvellier’s not-insubstantial day job is head of mobile for development for the GSMA. But that’s not what he’s talking to Stuff Studio’s editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak about. His also not-insubstantial side-jig is a data newsletter called Africa: The Big Deal, which he runs with his good friend Maxime Bayen. This “one graph, one paragraph” weekly newsletter has tracked how fintech has exploded on the continent; while start-ups in Africa have raised $1.8bn in Q1 of 2022, 2.5x the amount raised a year before. Read more on Stuff Studios.
2022-04-0427 min
The Grinders TableConversations with Maxime BayenThis week's conversation is with Maxime Bayen, a Senior Venture Builder for Catalyst Fund at BFA Global, aka The Data King (my nickname for him). He leads the venture building support to Catalyst Fund early-stage startups as well as supports the portfolio startups when it comes to investment readiness.
Maxime shares insights on growing in his career, building teams and getting the best out of work.
He ended this episode with 3 insights:
Work can be fun, can be enjoyable, it doesn't have to be tough
Go for people always, build a good team.
Be c...
2022-01-3016 min
The FlipIn Pursuit of Scale - The Strategies of Africa-Focused Venture InvestorsVenture Capitalists, generally speaking, are looking to fund high-growth ventures that have the potential to scale and achieve virtually infinite returns. But achieving that scale is hard, even more so in Africa, where there are market size questions, fragmented markets, and regulatory considerations. As a result, venture investors are looking for a specific type of founder and entrepreneur - one who has demonstrated the potential to pull it off and achieve the growth and scale investors are seeking.In the African early-stage ecosystem, with its funding scarcity, limited track record, talent shortage, and expansion challenges, how do...
2020-01-1630 min
The Flip1.2 Billion And Counting - How Do Entrepreneurs Look At Africa's Market Size?One of the most exciting aspects of opportunities in Africa is a function of market size - over 1.2 billion people on the youngest and fastest-growing continent. But the conversation around total addressable market, and true market size opportunity is a lot more nuanced than Africa's topline population number.2:25 - GreenTec Capital Partner's Maxime Bayen discusses GSMA research on mobile adoption and digital literacy4:39 - The Subtext's Osarumen Osamuyi on how he thinks about market size and the exercises he uses to better quantify market opportunity9:41 - NALA's Benjamin Fernandes on their product's impact on addressable...
2019-12-1927 min
The FlipReaching The Masses - A Conversation On DistributionIn nuanced and fragmented environments, how are startups in African markets getting their products and services in the hands of their customers at the last mile?1:55 Maxime Bayen, of GreenTec Capital partners and formerly of GSMA, on mobile technology4:00 Keith Davies, formerly of Zoona, on agent networks5:24 Katlego Maphai, CEO of Yoco, on building trust offline6:36 Abolore Salami, CEO of Riby, on B2B2C business models8:11 Antonio Bruni, CEO of Picup, on last mile delivery13:50 Justin and Sayo discuss market size
2019-12-1217 min