Funema

In #Africa, we believe it takes a village to raise a child. In Funema, we believe it takes an #ecosystem to raise a sustainable and responsible #company. We're #Funema and this is our #OBJECTIVE 💪🏽💪🏽

Over the next few posts, we'll share how this perspective translates into practice and why we believe market-building is critical as company-building. We're grateful to everyone who has built alongside us.

The first decade was formation. The next is construction.

Funema turns 10. This past decade taught us that strong companies don't exist without strong markets. Our work has evolved from venture building to systems-level investing and designing the structures that make entrepreneurship repeatable, resilient and inclusive.

10 Years of Building the Future. What began as conviction has grown into a decade of backing founders bold enough to shape industries and redefine markets. Over the next few months, we'll be celebrating the builders, the milestones and the vision that brought us here.

Find a quiet spot to enjoy this @africanroundup Podcast conversation with @FunemaGroup founder and CEO, @TeleDaveDeko over your lunch break. The insight rate per minute is especially high on this episode. Get it! 🎧 👇🏾

3/3 🤔 With @FunemaGroup's plans to reach 1,000 founders in 2 yrs & train 100K venture builders over 5 yrs, should more investors adopt similarly patient, immersive approaches to (tech) venture building in Africa? Listen wherever you get your pods! 🎧 pod.link/1152011645/epi…

2/3 🎧 @teledavedeko shares key insights: - Why service-based businesses create stronger tech companies over time - Why 🌍 needs 15-25yr investment horizons, not traditional 10yr VC timelines - How @FunemaGroup embeds deeply with founders for 2-3 years africantechroundup.com/pod-venture-bu…

1/3 🏗️ "We're quite good at hustling, but we're not really the best at thinking about corporate structure... we can turn ideas into a business, but we're not quite great at building companies." @teledavedeko of @FunemaGroup unpacks 9 years of venture building across 🇳🇬, 🇿🇦 & 🇺🇸.

@Afridigest There’s still so much more to build — 1,000 founders, 1M builders, $1B+ in new enterprise value — but seeing these ideas resonate beyond our walls is a humbling reminder: The fire we carry isn’t ours alone.

@Afridigest We are reimagining venture building from the ground up: •Service-based foundations before product scaling. •15–25 year timelines, not 10-year liquidity clocks. •Equity earned through value creation, not just cash. •Builders + founders for the long, slow, real work.

Over the last few weeks, parts of Funema’s journey have started to ripple beyond our own circle — first through @Afridigest and most recently on the @AfricanTechRoundup podcast. #VentureBuilding #EmergingMarkets #FaithDrivenEntrepreneurship #Funema #NewEconomy

It was super chilled talking about being a quantum innovator and the journey behind my starting Funema with Dolapo Oni You don't want to miss this!!! lnkd.in/em6xwRN5

Investing for impact with a people focused approach should be the starting point while optimising for scale and profitability should be the end goal. When we put people first, we will build great company cultures that would attract and retain remarkable…lnkd.in/eKum2nSC

At Funema, we work with our founders in taming the market. No amount of incubation, acceleration or MBA programs can prepare you for the market when you're a start-up. You take it piece meal by piece meal and then only scale what works. lnkd.in/dxxzHrrA

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At Funema, we co-build innovative last-mile solutions with visionary entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving developmental challenges. #whatwedo #EmergingMarkets

Our CRIID ensure our expressions are always aligned with why we exist in the first place. Find out more on the Funema's website funema.co #innovation #startups #venturebuilding

Don't Fret When Your Business Idea Changes. Oftentimes we see a problem and we quickly decipher a solution. Sometimes this solution works perfectly, other times, we just have to go back to the drawing board and tweak things a little. Don't Fret. #startup #vc

We believe in partnering with Quantum Innovators. Quantum Innovators are small scale entrepreneurs who are always multiplying by 10x the little resources at their disposal to create outsized impact in their community.