Sewu-Steve Tawia

September 14, 2022 - job.thamaini@right-here.com African Healthcare Funders Forum

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jaza Rift Ventures

Sewu-Steve Tawia is an Angel investor, Private Equity & Venture Capital investor, and Impact investor with over 20 years of experience in Europe and Africa.

Sewu-Steve Tawia is currently General Partner at Jaza Rift Ventures, the leading seed stage healthcare VC fund backing disruptive and innovative healthtech, medtech and digital health founders in East and West Africa.

A fully English-French bilingual, Sewu-Steve Tawia has an investment and advisory track record across the continent in fintech, healthtech, ecommerce, insuretech, retailtech, renewable energy and edtech. Sewu-Steve Tawia is also a strong advocate of gender equality, women economic empowerment and climate action.

Sewu-Steve is an alumnus of London Business School (UK), Audencia Business School (France), and has an executive leadership certificate in social entrepreneurship (EPSE) from Stanford GSB (USA). He also holds a number of professional charters: CAIA (alternative investments), CIFE (Islamic Finance), CGIA (finance), CDFP (Digital Finance, exp. 2022), Prince 2 (project management) and Toastmaster (public speaking) while being an innovation thought leader, JKA Karate Shotokan (3rd Dan) and Kizomba instructor.

Graduation Certificate: https://bit.ly/3G6miLD

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