Tag: fintech

The future is for fempreneurs. 2022 is most certainly the year of the fempreneur! Freetown Pitch Night is inviting ideas from female founders and female led business to pitch their ideas. 51% of the population in Sierra Leone are women; 63% of the urban woman and even more in the rural areas operate micro-enterprises.Promoting women […]

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Digital Disruption:- A game changer in Sierra Leone

In the run up to our next Pitch Event- Digital Disruptors, Francis Stevens George has published this article. “Disruptive innovation is transforming Africa’s economic potential, creating new target markets and unprecedented consumer choice.” Pwc The World Economic Forum states: “Africa is no longer looking to the rest of the world for their answers. Instead, they […]

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Report: Freetown Pitch Night- September 6th 2017

The theme for the September 6th Freetown Pitch Night was “Disrupting Finance: Fintech”. FinTech stands for Financial Technologies,: technologies used and applied in the financial services sector. FinTech is coming to represent technologies that are disrupting traditional financial services, including mobile payments, money transfers, loans, fundraising, and asset management. “The sad fact is many of […]

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