Philip Kent Kiracofe, CEO and Co-Founder, Startupbootcamp AfriTech
- Philip Kiracofe is a seasoned global venture builder and investor.
- He is the CEO and co-founder of Startupbootcamp AfriTech.
Podcast
Overview
A remarkable journey across decades of innovation—beginning with childhood dreams of space, pivoting through early internet startups, venture capital, and real estate, and culminating in building world-class startup ecosystems in Africa. This is a story about inflection points, failure as fuel, and why Africa may power the next global innovation wave.
00:16- About Philip Kent Kiracofe
- Philip Kiracofe is a seasoned global venture builder and investor.
- He is the CEO and co-founder of Startupbootcamp AfriTech.
- He has co-founded disruptive companies and pioneered world-class startup initiatives in Africa.
18:37- How did your forced pivot from the Air Force shape your early breakthroughs in internet startups like online grocery and SixDegrees?
- The forced exit from the Air Force redirected him into early internet infrastructure, where his technical grounding and exposure to large-scale systems enabled him to build advanced solutions in nascent online markets like grocery delivery.
- That pivot placed him at the center of first-wave internet experimentation, leading to hands-on roles in shaping industry templates, consortium research, and early digital business models.
- At SixDegrees, the setback sharpened his focus on monetization and relevance, pushing him to translate breakthrough social-graph technology into practical trust and transaction solutions for companies like eBay.
47:00- How do you plan to scale your African startup and AI-for-Good initiatives, and what support do you seek from global tech leaders and investors to accelerate that vision?
- Expand the accelerator model that compresses 18–24 months of startup growth into 3 months, while enabling African founders to build real-world AI solutions using local data and new on-continent GPU infrastructure.
- Focus on AI as an enabler across fintech, health, mobility, and logistics—ensuring models are trained on African data to solve uniquely local challenges, not imported assumptions.
- Seek global tech leaders and investors to support a new, exchange-listed SPV model that brings liquidity to African VC, shortens LP return cycles, and unlocks large-scale, sustainable investment into African innovation.
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Profile
- Philip Kiracofe is a seasoned global venture builder and investor.
- He is the CEO and co-founder of Startupbootcamp AfriTech.
- He has co-founded disruptive companies and pioneered world-class startup initiatives in Africa.
