First 50 Featured Founders - AFRICA & ASIA Focus

Meet our Featured Founders from Africa & Asia

Welcome to this post showcasing the African and Asian women founders from the First 50 featured founders from our InvestHer Founder Directory. Check out the full list in our previous post here.

Let's start by saying that these great founders are only some of the founders that we feature in the Directory and there are many, many more women founders featured in the whole Directory.  To check out the full list of founders from each region please check here and note that we update the directory weekly.

​- African Founders from InvestHer Founder Directory
- Asian Founders from InvestHer Directory 

Want to take a quick peek at the founders via Insta? Click below, otherwise, enjoy a more detailed information about each founder below. 

Africa

​Vivian Nwakah, Founder & CEO, Medsaf - (Medtech & Supply Chain)
Medsaf is an enterprise medical supply chain management solution for hospitals and pharmacies in Africa.
​Learn more about them here: Website, Vivian Nwakah LinkedIn, Insta, Twitter 

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Deema Sorri, CEO, Explore AgoRa (App, Gaming, Edtech)
AgoRa is a gamified interactive educational mobile application that incorporates real-life objects into learning activities allowing users to have an authentic and relevant learning experience. Our solution is to create and maintain student engagement through fostering to children’s instinctive curiosity about the world and bridging it with the learning outcomes through the app
​Learn more about them here: Website, Deema Sorri LinkedIn, Twitter

Sandra Locoh Donou, Founder & CEO, Finlo (Fintech, Agtech)
​Finlo is a platform allowing micro, small and medium size companies on the agri-value chain to grow smoothly. Are you operating in West Africa ? Do you have at least 1 year of operations ? Is agribusiness your company's main activity ? Reach out if you want to grow your venture by clicking on "Start Now"
Learn more about them here: Website, Sandra Locoh Donou LinkedIn, Twitter

Nkem Okocha, Founder, Mamamoni, (Fintech, Micro-Loans)
​Mamamoni enables the banked, under-banked and unbanked (woman or enterprise) access to banking services and loans in Nigeria. It is also a branchless banking business, meaning that its services are designed so that women can generally conduct transactions without the need to visit bank branches, but simply by using their mobile phones to conduct transactions.

Meet the Asian Founders by clicking on READ MORE below! 👇🏽​

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Asia

Shazia A. Kahn, Co-Founder & CEO, EcoEnergy (Energy, Sustainable development)
EcoEnergy is a provider of solar technology intended to offer lighting facilities for people with no access to electricity in Pakistan. The company's technology through their sales, service and distribution network, power lights, cell phones, fans and televisions for households and small businesses, enabling people in the under-powered communities to receive access to clean source of electricity.
​Learn more about them here: Website, Shazia Kahn's LinkedIn, Twitter

Ng Yi Ying, Founder, AllSome Fulfillment  (E-Commerce, Logistics)
AllSome is a parcel tracking system that provides e-commerce fulfillment and logistic solutions for online sellers. AllSome connects modern e-commerce sellers to distributed spare warehouses to perform cross border e-commerce fulfillment in a painless way. We have established a network of 250 warehouses in China, Malaysia and US. We manage to help e-commerce sellers to perform quality check in China, repack based on branding requirement and ship to worldwide. Learn more about them here: Website,  LinkedIn, Insta, 

Aditi Gupta, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Menstrupedia, (Women's Health)
Menstrupedia is a friendly guide to periods which helps girls and women to stay healthy and active during their periods. With a team of dynamic and passionate people with complementary skills, Menstrupedia aims at delivering informative and entertaining content through different media. Menstrupedia is a small but definitive step to shatter themyths and misunderstandings surrounding menstruation for ages.
Learn more about them here:

Jamie Chiu, Co-Founder, Good Brain Labs, (Serious Gaming, Health & Wellness)
We help young people become comfortable with who they are and compassionate to those around them. Holder of a doctorate in clinical psychology, she is the founder of Good Brain Labs, which creates mobile games that help to improve emotional awareness and build resilience. She also founded The Brightly Project, which runs digital student suicide prevention programme Know My Students.  
​Learn more about them here: Website, LinkedIn, Insta, Twitter

Raena Lim, Co-Founder, Style Theory
Style Theory is a fashion rental subscription platform that provides economically sustainable fashion choices. It operates through the Style Theory app, which members are required to download in order to access the service.

Learn more about them here: Website, LinkedIn, Insta, 

Are you a woman founder who'd like to be featured on InvestHer Founder Directory? We'd love to hear from you!

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Our next post will feature founders from Europe from this list.