Extremely excited to announce the launch of Ethiopia’s First and Africa’s Unique Equity Crowdfunding Platform ( https://igniteinvestment.com/) to unlock funding, grow businesses, transform economies, and impact millions by connecting African entrepreneurs with equity investors from the diaspora and beyond!   

— Have done —
✅ Facilitated $millions from over 500 diaspora proving the crowdfunding concept.
✅ Working to improve the critical lack of access to finance for 🇪🇹, African Women Entrepreneurs.
✅ Ex-President of the African Women Entrepreneurs Program (AWEP) Ethiopia Chapter.
✅ Advisory Council member of Scio Network GbR

— Passionate about —
💹 Profit with purpose.
❇️ Social impact.
✨ Fintech and the African digital economy transformation.
🌍 African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
🇺🇳 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

—- Clubs —- 
🗓 Tech News
       ➡️ Tech news around the world
       ➡️ Tech news around Africa 
🗓 The Pitch Club

Fun facts:
⏩ Got a “shout out” for my crowdfunding platform business by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his speech in Ethiopia during official trip to Sub-Saharan Africa.
⏩ Was a judge in the Ethiopian version of Shark Tank for one season.
⏩ Was one of the Lioness of the lions Den 2021 for the graduating Start-ups pitch sessions of Bluemoon Ethiopia incubator.
⏩ Lived/worked: 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, 🇬🇧, 🇪🇹, 🇰🇪 🇹🇭,🇵🇰 
⏩ Was a refugee in my teens separated from my family and became first generation Ethiopian Canadian.
⏩ Love to travel to new places. Bucket list? travel to every country in the world 🌎, been to 32, 165 to go; at my age and pace, seems impossible but I am still a dreamer😴