Practical Guidelines For Effective Crowdfunding Secrets The Lelapa Fund crowdfunding platform aims to help investors abroad vest directly in African startups, and enables investors to contribute their skills as well as finances to their chosen ventures. Speaking at the 12th annual East AfricaCom event in Nairobi, Kenya, Howard said one of the main shortcomings of entrepreneurial ecosystems across Africa is a failure to facilitate access to finance. Its all very well having a wonderful ecosystem, but we all know startups have a very difficult time in accessing funding, she said. Crowdfunding, Howard says, changes this, by allowing early-stage startups to gather fundraising funds from the international community, and as such stop being reliant on securing private seed investment. According to Howard, crowdfunding also provides an alternative way for external investors to approach investing in Africa. Its a new way for the world to see African innovation, she said. Howard says crowdfundin

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