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Nigeria
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is the Founder and CEO of Aruwa Capital Management.
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Sometimes I feel like I need three of me.
It takes time, it takes years of building trust, years of communication, years of follow-ups.
You set up a centre and it breaks even in a short space of time.
It’s a business that we remain very, very excited about in terms of the growth trajectory.
The way that they’ve been able to create this ecosystem that is really enabling the informal economy to really scale and have access to finance.
The unit economics of these centres are just phenomenal.
When you finally get them, it’s very, very fulfilling.
Sometimes I feel there aren’t enough hours in the day.
You’re fundraising for one fund, you’re deploying another fund, you’re exiting another fund, you’re hiring, you’re reporting, you’re doing investor relations.
Fundraising is not for the faint-hearted. *Getting global institutions to back you, back your firm, back your vision, back your strategy.
We need to continue to showcase the success stories of impact investing where intentionality around impact actually enhances returns, this will be key in helping impact investing to become more mainstream.
Access to capital for women and people of colour in my view is one of the most important dislocations in the private equity and venture capital industry that needs to be addressed in the next decade.
We think that if you’re able to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare services, like diagnostics, in peri-urban areas so outside the big cities you are really able to position yourself in an industry with limited competition.