On October 18, 2010 seven companies pitched their ideas to a panel of Venture Capitalists in front of a live audience at the iHub. One of the very first ‘VC pitch events’ to be hosted in Kenya, the event featured Vincent Kouwenhoven with eVentures Africa Fund. Next to Vincent also Fanisi Venture Capital Fund, Africa Media Venture Fund, Open Capital Fund and Grofin attended.
Vincent Kouwenhoven joined the Kenya ICT Board task force in Bellagio Italy, to discuss Kenya’s future as the ICT Hub in Africa. Vincent is standing above on the right and Paul Kukubo, CEO of the ICT Board Kenya is standing above on the left.
Vincent Kouwenhoven and Brian Hirman from the Netherlands have recently launched eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund): an investment fund for digital media and e-business companies in Africa. eVA Fund will first focus on investments in the sub-Saharan African countries.
Kouwenhoven is founder and owner of the Dutch venture capital firm eVentures Europe and Hirman recently resigned as CEO of Isobar Netherlands (Isobar is the world’s largest full service digital agency network) and is now founder and owner of Forventures, a Dutch incubator of digital business ideas.
