Khaled Ismail on how KI Angel and HIM Angel funds pursue inter-Africa startup growth

Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 8:13 a.m.

b"Khaled Ismail is the Chairman and Founder of two Cairo-based angel funds\\u2014 KI Angel and HIM Angel. He also serves as advisor to Algebra Ventures, Egypt\\u2019s leading technology venture capital outfit, which focuses primarily on Series A and Series B investments in Egypt and the MENA region. \\n\\nIn this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at the fringes of African Angel Investor Summit 2017 (www.AAIS2017.com) - Khaled relates how he went from being a career technologist to founding seven tech ventures since 1991 (including a 4G mobile tech firm which was acquired by Intel) before accidentally falling into structured angel funding activities. \\n\\nKhaled also explains how he\\u2019s acting on his idealistic desire to tear down trade barriers linked to Africa\\u2019s colonial past. He's determined to normalise the interchange of both angel funding and startup founding talent across the continent."