Season 5: The investment pathway between ideas and impact for researchers

The research to commercialisation pipeline is plagued with a lot of unknowns and many researchers don’t know where to start when thinking about how to attract funding for their ideas. In this episode, we replay a taped discussion with industry professionals, where we demystify the commercialisation pipeline for researchers. We also talk about gender and the investment landscape. 

The discussion features: Kim-Andrée Potvin - partner at Bamboo Capital Partners and Board Chair of the Mawazo Institute; Carol Masila-Maiko - international lawyer and legal associate at Persistent Energy; Faith Wilson - a venture builder at Persistent Energy and Prof. Maina Mwangi-Director of Innovation Incubation and University Industry Linkages at Kenyatta University.

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Further Reading:

• Research to Commercialisation (R2C) Accelerator; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

• Directorate of Innovation, Incubation & University Industry Linkages (IIUIL); Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter

• Persistent Energy; Twitter, LinkedIn

• Bamboo Capital Partners; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

• Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA); Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

• Young Entrepreneurs in Science (YES); LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

• BasiGo