Maya Horgan Famodu is Founder & Managing Director at Ingressive Capital, a $10 Million VC Fund I and $50 Million Fund II targeting early stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa’s key tech markets. Ingressive Capital Fund I has seeded some of Africa’s fastest-growing businesses, including Paystack (sold for $200M+ to Stripe), 54gene (Series A led by Adjuvant, an IFC fund), and Tizeti (Series A led by 4DX). 33% of portfolio companies are female founded and 31% of companies are Y Combinator alumni.

Maya and her team are building a pipeline that runs from the time a student thinks “I want to be in tech” all the way to the time they IPO. As such, she co-founded Ingressive for Good, a nonprofit focused on cultivating technical talent and resources for the African startup ecosystem. Maya also founded Ingressive Advisory, a market entry and market operations firm that has assisted more than 50 international companies in entering and operating across Africa, with a collective 40+ deals on the continent. Many of these clients became investors in her fund, which has led to 80% of Ingressive Capital’s limited partners running their own later stage fund, and providing companies with access to international capital.
Maya worked previously in private equity research and at JPMorgan.