Bringing Women into Africa’s Growth Story

Yasmin Belo-Osagie and Afua Osei’s paths first crossed when they worked together at McKinsey & Company. But the idea to start a pitch competition and entrepreneurial training organization for women-owned, African companies was birthed a few years later during a women’s conference.

“We both had a background in empowering and supporting women, especially high potential women. We ran into each other at A Women’s Excellence conference in May. We were both a similar vision, to support women leaders in Africa.  We talked about putting together a pitch contest for entrepreneurs and we soon realized that it could be much bigger,” says Belo-Osagie.

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