RCP #4 Bridging Africa, LatAm & Asia with $800m+ for fintech, with Johan Bosini [Quona Capital]

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts122/v4/96/d0/08/96d0084f-3da1-a12e-25ea-ce93e22b6438/mza_10704649166185818675.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

The Rally Cap Podcast

Kyane Kassiri

12 episodes

1 week ago

Join host Kyane Kassiri of Rally Cap VC in a series of conversations with top VCs and founders in Africa, the Middle East, and emerging markets at large. This is a humble contribution to the regional podcasting scene, sharing with the world some of the current conversations across the local VC industry.

Investing

Business

RSS

All content for The Rally Cap Podcast is the property of Kyane Kassiri and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Investing

Business

https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/40593512/40593512-1712229517099-3f73f8f93c11b.jpg

RCP #4 Bridging Africa, LatAm & Asia with $800m+ for fintech, with Johan Bosini [Quona Capital]

The Rally Cap Podcast

27 minutes 26 seconds

1 year ago

RCP #4 Bridging Africa, LatAm & Asia with $800m+ for fintech, with Johan Bosini [Quona Capital]

Johan Bosini is a partner at Quona Capital, a $800 million pan-emerging-markets fintech VC firm. Timestamps: (1:58) Quona overview in numbers (4:05) Imposter syndrome and self-assessment (5:08) Investing in LatAm vs Africa: different mental models (8:07) Lose-lose situation: too many VCs backing a model/space (10:38) Africa & LatAm: similar [but delayed] growth trajectories (12:49) Do not expand across continents! [for most startups] (13:49) Fintech 1.0, Fintech 2.0, Fintech 3.0 (17:21) Thesis behind investing in Sava [Brex for Africa] (19:25) Thesis behind investing in Orda [Toast for Africa] (21:57) Not enough digital banks??? (23:11) African multi-billion dollar exits: is the dream still alive? (24:09) Crazy founder story References: Yoco - https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/south-african-payments-startup-yoco-raises-83m-series-c-led-by-dragoneer/ Sava - https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/sava-a-spend-management-platform-for-african-businesses-gets-2m-pre-seed-backing/ Orda - https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/orda-raises-millions-to-digitize-african-restaurants-with-its-cloud-based-operating-system/ Listen on all platforms: Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRallyCapPodcast

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3vUDH5yEH6pvRkqM1TVaxS

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rally-cap-podcast/id1731710244

Where to find Johan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanbosini/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohanBosini Where to find Kyane: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyanekassiri/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kyanekassiri Learn more about Rally Cap: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/05/ral... Check out our Climate Newsletter: https://rallycapclimate.medium.com/