Joe.HoaQ 🌍 🇹🇬/🇮🇪
@joekinvi
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ex-stripe and ex-paystack - now building technology for investors across Africa & its Diaspora.
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The wright brothers didn’t have flying licenses. Do with that what you will!
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@Positivenga1
When 50% or more of salary is spent on food by the average consumer, there is a lot of $$ at stake.
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I think my first week at Paystack has been successful because I created a custom slack emoji that’s now used on every other thread. Wow - just wow 🙂
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We’ve backed 8 companies on the black founders fund list. Congrats to all of them 🙌🏽🙌🏽
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Boys always know what they want. When they say they don't know, that means they don't want you (sorry)
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I’ll be looking for a software engineer intern soon. You will be working with a superstar CTO and this could turn into a full time role after 3 months. I’ll pay stipend. DM is open
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My company is creating a list of black owned businesses that we can support and I would like to add as many as I possibly can from Ireland/UK/Europe. Please reply and tag your company/friends company. If you have have any, simply retweet
#BlackLivesMatter
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In 2024, I will organise the biggest angel investor summit in Africa and have Jason Calacanis speak at it.
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This day exactly 23 months ago, I resigned from a company to follow my dream which was to get involved with startups and build something. Today I gave an hour talk at that company!
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Female founders who want to raise VC funding: I have an opportunity for you to pitch your company in front of VCs in Paris, in October 2023. Share your email via DM and I will copy you in the mail going to our portfolio companies
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Weird fact: I started making money when I stopped working for money! Left a full-time, secure and high paid job to a startup with 3 staff and minimal funding. 3 years later to the day, all the sacrifices paid off! I listened to myself!
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I’m a big fan of
@AltSchoolAfrica
and glad to have the opportunity to invest alongside HoaQ club members this week! They are a systemically important startup for Africa and need all the support they can get (not investment advice)
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When
@NubiKay
and I started brainstorming about
@hoaqclub
exactly 4 years ago, we had one word in mind: Enablement. Today, the community had grown to 600+ investors, 100+ deals and millions of dollars investors across 10+ countries. Joining the
@ABANAngels
is an achievement for…
📢
@hoaqclub
is now a proud member of the
#ABANCommunity
!
“We look forward to forging strategic partnerships & accessing a broader network of investors & entrepreneurs across Africa and the Diaspora."
@JoeKinvi
- Co-founder, HoaQ
@NubiKay
Read our blog👉
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Some HoaQ updates (Q1 2021)
- 60 investors
- 6 companies (4 new and 2 follow-ups)
- $142k raised and invested.
- HoaQ’s core team has grown by 50% 😅
Looking forward to launching HoaQ-5 this week.
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Looking forward to enabling 10,000 people learn about angel investing and back earth stage startups. 2023, I’m ready 🙏🏾
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I've been building technology over the past 6 months and we got our first paid user yesterday! I'm extremely over the moon!
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I strongly believe that everything I’ve been working towards will come together in 2022 and I’m so excited for it 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
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Next year I’m going to visit Senegal, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Namibia, Turkey and at least one country in Asia
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1000 reposts and we will change the name to Hoaqademy and make the content public for a week
@hoaqclub
😂
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Finally you can learn how to say HoaQ. And we are officially 4 today. Yes! 4 years of investing in companies, 4 years of building a community… 4 years but we are only getting started 🚀🚀🚀
It's our anniversary month!! HoaQ is Four (4)! 🎉
We are a community of creators and operators backing entrepreneurs in building scalable businesses for Africa and its Diaspora.
Four years, over 700 members, and 100 deals later, we are thrilled to have come this far! Thank you…
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To all my ex colleagues impacted, please reach out to me and let me know how I can help. Some of our portfolio companies are actively hiring
Today was a difficult day at Paystack.
We’re reducing our operations outside of Africa, and will be parting ways with up to 33 employees in Europe and the UAE.
In the last 3 years, our hiring philosophy was to recruit great talent regardless of location, including opening an…
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Life update…
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My next syndicate will be a property syndicate targeted at folks who travel regularly to Africa. We will own properties in Lagos, Nairobi and Cape Town to start. Investors in the syndicate will get priority access when they travel and we will rent it out when they are unoccupied.…
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A great HOAQ EXIT to end my week! More details coming soon
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I need
@Jasielinvests
@margentambi
@AnthonyWCatt
@rumbimak
@yewiedewie
@calebmaru
to come together and organise the biggest African and the diaspora angel investing event together. Who else should join this list of organisers? where should it be held? Lagos? London? Nairobi?
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I’m an angel investor, of course I know I’m going to lose money
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I’ve seen a lot of founder bashing on this app recently. Let’s all remember that there are no investors without founders. A lot of African founders are taking a lot of unnecessary heat and it’s not helping the ecosystem. Many founders are well qualified and can take top paying…
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The thing about me is even if I invest $100 in your business, I’m promoting you like crazy. I’m retweeting and plugging you every chance I get. I’m using your product when I can, im telling my friends to use your product. I’m sharing referral codes. I’m going above and beyond for…
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Oh I forgot to say. The next 11 months of 2019 are going to bang for me! Like bang bang
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This week is when I see the most change in my whole entire life! Everything is shifting (for the better)
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Investing in USD-denominated assets has proven to be a smart idea over the past 12 years. As much as I'm not a fan of investing outside our home countries, our leaders leave us with no choice.
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Investing in early stage startups in an extreme sport. Play at your own risk ⚠️
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Where I want to personally invest my money in Africa:
1) Future of education
2) Future of work
3) Future of wealth creation
Why? Long lasting economic empowerment and prosperity
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The
@hoaqclub
community is extremely excited to have backed the
@golemonhq
team. In fact, we invested both from the syndicate and the fund. Special thanks to
@NubiKay
and
@yewiedewie
for leading these efforts.
Fun fact: we hosted a meet the founder session with the GL team on…
Four ex-Paystack senior managers launch grocery delivery startup, GoLemon: Four former senior managers at Paystack are leaving the payment company to launch GoLemon, a food and grocery delivery startup.
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Hosting this in London tomorrow with
@AnthonyWCatt
and
@yewiedewie
. Please join us if you are around. Limited slots left
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While I'm actively fundraising, I'm also actively hiring, but not in the standard way. I'm reaching out to the most talented people I know to share my vision and tell them how they can contribute to realising it. I'm very excited about the future
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Having spoken with over 200 founders in the past 3 years, I can confidently say that I’ve learned a lot from them as I embark on this journey. I’m excited. Very excited!
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To become a better angel investor, you need to educate yourself and we’ve now put all the education resources in one place for you 👇🏽
We’ve been cooking!
If you're new to angel investing or just want to learn as much as possible in a short time, we have got you covered.
HoaQ Academy is here to help you kickstart your angel investing journey. We’ve compiled a wide range of self-help materials to guide you…
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‘If your financial situation and job opportunities allow it, don't settle for a company that bores you’
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It’s so good to see so many of my friends and peers going back to Nigeria to vote this weekend. We are the generation that believes in voting for the change we want!
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Thank you
@peaceitimi
and the whole
@theFCshow_
team for making this happen! Enjoyed talking about a lot of things I’ve never spoken about publicly.
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I’ve been so frustrated lately living in Dublin. Everything is expensive. On top of that, we have a taxi shortage. I was out last night and although my night ended at 1am, I couldn’t find a taxi an hour. I felt so helpless
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Happy Independence Day to Togo and all Togolese people reading this 🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬
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I’m still confident that we will invest $1 million towards African founders this year.
#EquityisTheWay
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Oh you didn’t know we are raising a fund to follow up on our existing hoaq portfolio? We have invested in 75+ companies and many of them are backed by YC, Sequoia, lightspeed and other amazing funds. My DMs are open👋🏽. Deck is ready. First close this month 🤝
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If your business happens to earn in USD and you are based in Africa, it would be great to have your team’s salary denominated in USD and you can convert in local currency on a periodic basis. It doesn’t cost you anything extra
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We don’t tell our stories enough because we think people know. They don’t. In 2024, I’m committing to telling my story to more people. Your story is worth telling
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I just sent an email to investors that one of our portfolio companies' value has been written down to nil. I also personally invested in the company. I thought long and hard about how to put it, but there aren't other ways.
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Over the next 2 months l, I’ll be spending more time in East and West Africa. I’ll be prioritizing in-person meetings over virtual meetings. Very excited about this
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As
@NubiKay
said, it's not everyday an influencer like
@peaceitimi
tweets about you and also get one of your portfolio raise a series A at a $110Mn valuation. Today is a great day at
@hoaqclub
and we are very grateful 🙌🏽
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