Purple Elephant Ventures
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Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio that designs, builds and scales Africa-focused tourism-tech startups. It also manages a debt vehicle, Uplift, providing financing to Africa's tourism industry.
Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in tourism, travel, hospitality and clean tech.
“Purple Elephant is a venture studio that designs, builds and scales Africa-focused tourism-tech startups.”
— Purple Elephant Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- tourism, travel, hospitality, clean tech, conservation
Team, as Purple Elephant Ventures publishes it
- Ben Peterson CEO
- Jacob Hason Chief Operating Officer
- Jan van der Does de Willebois CFO
- Afshan Poona Chief Product Officer
- Anthony Kiplimo Group Innovation Lead
- Beatrice Ferreira Chief of Staff
- Jedidah Ongai Head of Human Resources
- Job Odhiambo Regenerative Tourism Lead
- Kevin Gisore Chief Communications Officer
- Mwendwa Reuben Chief Technology Officer
- Tahir Popat Chief Commercial Officer
- Azam Samanani Senior Advisor, Recruiting
Names and roles exactly as listed on purpleelephant.ventures. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
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- https://www.purpleelephant.ventures/name, type, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, status, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.purpleelephant.ventures/portfoliois_investor, layer, sectors, description
- https://www.purpleelephant.ventures/teamhq_country, hq_city, people
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