Think Younger: Unlocking Capital for Africa's Next Gen Titans

Africa's youngest founders 15 to 25 year olds building ventures as their primary hustle face a funding gap that has little to do with the quality of their ideas. Facilitated by Razaan Abnowf, this workshop unpacks findings from the Think Younger toolkit, breaking down the economic, institutional, and psychological barriers keeping capital from Africa's very young entrepreneurs, and what genuine investability signals (traction, iteration, fiscal discipline) look like when pedigree and polish aren't the proxy. A panel of investors from Launch Africa, ABAN, AV Ventures, and the Ilia Foundation gets candid about bias, structural gaps, and what actually predicts a founder's ability to execute with parallels drawn to gender-lens investing along the way.