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Goals of An African Teenager

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  • September 10, 2020
  • 4 min read
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How goals I set as a teenager shaped my career and made tough decisions easy

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Kendall Ananyi – Investing in a Y Combinator Top Company – My Reliance Health Story

Kendall Ananyi
  • November 4, 2022
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Earlier this year, Reliance Health announced their Series B round, a $40m round and the largest health tech investment in Africa making them a YC top company valued at more than $150m. Reliance Health started life as Kangpe, a telemedicine startup. I first heard about them when Tizeti provided free wifi to livestream Oo Nwoye’s […]

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Kendall Ananyi on Turning 40

Kendall Ananyi
  • June 25, 2021
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I turned 40 last week and took time off to celebrate with my family at Disneyland “happiest place on earth” and took a look back at my last 4 decades.Early on, my parents realized I was a precocious child and took a bold decision to allow me skip 2 grades and progress to boarding school […]

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Kendall Ananyi on Investing in An African Unicorn – My Flutterwave Story

Kendall Ananyi
  • May 28, 2021
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At the end of Q1 2021 Flutterwave announced their Series C funding led by Tiger Global and Avenir Growth Capital valuing the startup at a $1Billion making my 2nd Angel investment a Unicorn (Startup valued at a $1Bn). In August 2016, I led a team of Bankers looking to partner with startups to Yaba (center […]

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Kendall Ananyi on Angel Investing – My Paystack Story

Kendall Ananyi
  • February 21, 2021
  • 8 min read
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Last month, Stripe’s $200m acquisition of Paystack closed, the fairytale ending to my 1st Angel investment. The acquisition had been announced back in October 2020 and closed in January 2021. Paystack went live on Radar https://radar.techcabal.com/t/paystack-is-live/4161 on January 26th 2016. The reviews were great. A week later (February 3rd 2016), I was introduced to the […]

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Kendall Ananyi on Fundraising for your business

Kendall Ananyi
  • January 24, 2021
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Every business or startup needs capital and raising capital is not easy. I provide some insight into the process and share my own experience with fundraising. The talk was part of a Zoom Call I had with my classmates from University. The talk is broken into the following session Equity ve Debt Source of Financing […]

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Personal Finance for Startup Employees by Kendall Ananyi

Kendall Ananyi
  • January 12, 2021
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I gave a talk on Personal Finance for Tizeti employees at the end of 2020. The talk details Living with your means Saving Investing Differentiates between Leverage and Lending

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Bootstrapping to a $1M Revenue Run rate

Kendall Ananyi
  • September 9, 2020
  • 1 min read
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How we bootstrapped Tizeti with no capital investment to a $Million run rate

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My Personal Statement

Kendall Ananyi
  • June 6, 2020
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My attention has been drawn to a thread of tweets on Twitter shared by Kelechi Udoagwu (Kelechi), with Twitter Handle, @anti_ratrace between 2 – 3 June 2020 (the Tweets). She posted a serious allegation against me on Twitter.  Due to the sensitive nature of this allegation, I have consulted extensively with my family, colleagues and […]

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