The world’s prevailing financial institutions — banks, credit unions and equity markets — have mostly ignored sub-Saharan Africa. And “microfinance” organizations, while wildly successful
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Category: Startups
Despite gains, most black, female startup founders still get no funding
Viola Llewellyn is one of the few black, female company founders nationwide that has been able to surpass the $1 million venture funding mark.
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Fixing broken business financing in Africa with Ovamba startup
The ability of small and medium-sized businesses to access financing is described as one of the biggest challenges to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
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African fintech startups can be disruptors or enablers
Taking part in a panel discussion around bridging Africa’s SME funding gap, Llewellyn discussed the difficulties banks have in innovating and reaching new customers,
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Viola A. Llewellyn and Africa’s first FinTech- Written by Lauma Berzina
Viola A. Llewellyn is the Co-founder and president of award-winning Ovamba Solutions, Inc., Africa’s first FinTech company to create technologies to serve African SMEs
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17 firestarters driving change in the investment monopoly
According to SiliconRepublic, “These investors, entrepreneurs, mentors and advocates are blazing a new trail for sci-tech entrepreneurship.” Among these “firestarters” is Ovamba’s Viola Llewellyn.
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