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😴