The Africa Playbook

Preview: Building Africa's Largest Proptech (Nawy) with Mostafa El-Beltagy

Listen to how Africa's largest proptech got its name - with this funny story from the co-founder & CEO Mostafa.

Building Africa's Largest Proptech (Nawy) with Mostafa El-Beltagy

🎙 New Episode Alert: The Vision Behind Africa’s Leading Proptech – Nawy We’re thrilled to share our latest episode featuring Mostafa El-Beltagy [https://www.linkedin.com/company/70424823/admin/page-posts/published/?share=true#], Co-founder & CEO of Nawy [https://www.linkedin.com/company/70424823/admin/page-posts/published/?share=true#], Africa’s largest and fastest-growing proptech 🏘️ What began as a digital brokerage has evolved into a comprehensive real estate powerhouse — offering solutions across brokerage, mortgages, fractional ownership, property management, and rentals. 🚀 In this episode, Mostafa shares: 🔹 The remarkable journey of building Nawy from the ground up 🪜 🔹 The decades-long friendship that powers its founding team 🤝 🔹 Hard-earned insights on scaling, category leadership, and navigating the African real estate landscape 🌍📈 Don’t miss this conversation with one of the continent’s most innovative founders. Tune in now.

The State of Africa Tech with Tidjane Deme

On a very special episode of The Africa Playbook podcast, Lewam Kefela [https://twitter.com/LewamKefela] sat down with Tidjane Deme [https://twitter.com/tidjanedeme], General Partner of Partech Africa [https://partechpartners.com/funds/africa] (the largest Africa focused VC with $450M+ in assets under management), to discuss all things tech, finance, life and of course, Africa 🚀🌍 ✨. Partech [https://partechpartners.com/] is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. We are a team made up of independent thinkers. We are unconstrained by hype, trend or fixed ways of working. We believe in the power of alliance in action, working together and side-by-side with the founders we back, in the shared pursuit of success. We bring together capital, operational experience and strategic support for the entrepreneurs we back from seed through to growth stage. Born in San Francisco 40 years ago, today we manage €2.5bn AUM and our current portfolio of 220 companies in 40 countries, across 4 continents.

Let's Talk About Debt Capital

In this episode, we talk through what it means to raise debt in our market: what to plan for, the challenges entrepreneurs face, and the role DeFi can play in moving things forward. We are joined by Sam Eyob [https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuOhSAMhp_msDSAyNEFi9nMaxguRYkIBuqc-PaDx6Rp0za9fL_VCEsulzpyRXK7Ga8DVIJPjYAIhZwVyhycYrTvJR8H4pRwbBxGEursC8CuQ1RYTiDHaWKwGkNO98RIpZzIqvjEZA-MD3zqjRbce0etMdRbTTWj7rmrTxcgWVDwB-XKCUhUK-JRX_3Pi_82w0-4P-ps3ltW4cqGBMUpv22kbT2jHe98L7hw7VMvrRQwdNpiv3qxvATdF97V01TUdrv3kKLiBh6ibs3lJvlWG8jc4n6mgNcMSZsI7mHER6ov9bxAgtIkdLNGxaSQlEs28GHkD1MTQUxCTu83J-2sy20qKVxB-9KEOqK-TM7bP2NMg4I], Chief Investment Officer at Goldfinch [https://goldfinch.finance/], Umulinga Karangwa [https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuOhSAMhp_msDSAgLpgMZt5g1kbLkXJQTBY58S3HxyTpk3b9PL9ziAspV56LweS28147aAzfI4EiFDJeUCdo9eM9r3ioyReC89GOZJ4zKECbCYmjfUEsp82RWcwlnxPjFSpiayac-YmKb0crZWBcUkHMzEZ5GC97Xvx3DWnj5AdaPiFepUMJOkVcT9e_deLfzfDT7w_6lzZWvaznSnmxbxJ1Jzy20Yq-cRox7vQCy58-zYopwTIzjjs1yCWl6DbwrvjtAca9753karTGwIk05rLTfNfbTBzi9uZI14zZGMT-IcTH7n-yecFMtQmo58NaqaEolwxyeXIH64mhJiEmoaBk3bWlzaVNa5gQm1i7clctpT3H_i-hGs], Founder of Africa Nziza Investment Advisory, and Jesse Ghansah [https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMGOhCAMhp9mOBqsyOiBw17msC9hEIqSQTBQd-LbL45JU9KStv_3G024pHyqPRViV5ro3FFF_JSARJjZUTBP3qqWd52EoWdWCdsO_cB8mVxG3LQPivKBbD_m4I0mn-I1MXApR7YqNIaD44OWyOsKcKPms4MZBMzdaMf7rj6sx2hQ4R_mM0VkQa1Ee3l0Pw941aCPvxQ1Jm21-sVSkFbMOl4yvQIOVwy8h7HlDTSuEyBsleykkQL7RhvqVieWh-DbAk055kLavK-FLKvwRodB18_lQvp2K9FU3-2Ins4Jo54D2huWbs---NOCsQohtJMm1UohOci2h36AG666IUYhx-cTWD1rU52KqqrXLlfH9qDPOaX3P4XWhwo], Founder & CEO of Float [https://float.co/]. The Africa Playbook [https://www.notion.so/The-Africa-Playbook-ae8605f9a5f748479fe3903fe1c7fb0a] is a series of newsletters and conversations focused on telling Africa's growth stories. Join us on a journey to discover, learn, and build a blueprint for what African success stories could look like! Find more info on our Website [https://www.notion.so/The-Africa-Playbook-ae8605f9a5f748479fe3903fe1c7fb0a] Subscribe to our Newsletter [https://theafricaplaybook.substack.com/] Follow Us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/Africa_Playbook], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-africa-playbook], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/africaplaybook/?hl=en]

The Price of Trust

This month, at The Africa Playbook, we’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes for businesses to build trust in a customer base, especially in the early days. Lewam Kefela had the pleasure of interviewing two amazing African operators that have built strong brands in different industries, Babajide Duroshola and Odunayo Eweniyi. In this conversation, Babajide recalls what it took for customers to trust SafeBoda (a motorcycle taxi ride-hailing platform) with their safety, and drivers to trust them with their income. While Odunayo recalls what it took for customers to trust Piggyvest (a savings and investment platform) with their financial future.  They share lessons learned, mistakes made and advice they wish they had on day one. Babajide Duroshola [https://twitter.com/Babajiide]: Babajide Duroshola is a Business Management Executive with extensive expertise in startups, technology, banking and consulting. With over 10 years of extensive transnational experience across roles, he has developed comprehensive competence in business management, strategy, marketing, operations, community and ecosystem management and engagement.  He is currently a General Manager at M-KOPA, and was a former Country Director at SafeBoda. Odunayo Eweniyi [https://twitter.com/OdunEweniyi]: Odunayo Eweniyi is the co-founder & Chief Operations Officer, PiggyVest, the largest digital savings and investment platform in Nigeria. She’s an award-winning fintech entrepreneur who is working for diversity equity and inclusion in fintech and technology as a whole. And when she’s not doing that, she’s tweeting or watching TV shows. Odun is also a co-founder of the Africa Playbook. Lewam Kefela [https://twitter.com/LewamKefela]: Lewam Kefela is a co-founder of The Africa Playbook. When she's not working on our content, she works as an Investment Director at Village Capital.  She's passionate about supporting founders building meaningful solutions to create access and transform industries. And when she's not doing that, she likes to write, sing, take ridiculously long walks and tell the corniest jokes. Lewam is Eritrean but was born and raised in Kenya. The Africa Playbook [https://www.notion.so/The-Africa-Playbook-ae8605f9a5f748479fe3903fe1c7fb0a] is a series of newsletters and conversations focused on telling Africa's growth stories. Join us on a journey to discover, learn, and build a blueprint for what African success stories could look like! Find more info on our Website [https://www.notion.so/The-Africa-Playbook-ae8605f9a5f748479fe3903fe1c7fb0a] Subscribe to our Newsletter [https://theafricaplaybook.substack.com/] Follow Us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/Africa_Playbook], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-africa-playbook], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/africaplaybook/?hl=en], Clubhouse [https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/the-africa-playbook]