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[Interview] Christopher Kape, Vancouver Executive, President of JAMCO Capital Partners

YoungUpstarts

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. Why do you think philanthropic work is important as an entrepreneur?

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[Sponsored] Clearbell’s Success Another Vindication Of Manish Chande’s Eye For A Good Deal

YoungUpstarts

Chande, whose family was expelled from Uganda by notorious dictator Idi Amin, has been a member of the board of the prestigious Land Securities, and was the CEO of Trillium, which broke new ground in the management of sale and lease-back property. 40% of their portfolio is office properties, with 19% industrial buildings.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

The first thing is to make sure we are finding the right partner. It can be difficult to find the right partner in all these different countries, so that plays a part in how we choose the countries. This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019.

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“It’s hard to convey the impact seeing the work in person has on people” – Charity: Water’s Scott Harrison on Making a Difference

Hunter Walker

We’ve also been training up local mechanics through our local partners, who can run maintenance routes and make preemptive repairs and major repairs on thousands of projects. Or Uganda for example. As we look to the next 10 years, I think we’ll be able to take some of the tech we’re building and share it with others.