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The Funding Gap in Start-up Investing | Temie Giwa-Tubosun | TED

“It is time to close the funding gap for Black female-led start-ups the world over,” says entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, whose company LifeBank delivers life-saving medical supplies to remote areas in Africa. Today, LifeBank operates successfully across the continent, but Giwa-Tubosun knows that barriers to funding prevent many other brilliant business ideas from blossoming. She highlights…

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“It is time to close the funding gap for Black female-led start-ups the world over,” says entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, whose company LifeBank delivers life-saving medical supplies to remote areas in Africa. Today, LifeBank operates successfully across the continent, but Giwa-Tubosun knows that barriers to funding prevent many other brilliant business ideas from blossoming. She highlights examples of impactful women-led ventures around the world — and challenges investors to help more of them thrive.

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35 Comments

  1. Ter Tarantulas

    May 25, 2022 at 11:07 am

    The bs TED talk have become.

    • Jerry Elolo Klu

      May 25, 2022 at 11:36 am

      I agree that this talk could have been better presented. For well over three minutes into the talk, she had still not zeroed in on the focus of the talk: the funding-gap in startup investing. As someone who is watching, you have to make the connections out yourself. However, I do not think the talk has zero utility whatsoever. It has a lesson or two. I am intrigued by your assertion that this is outright rubbish. Indulge me. I pray, tell.

  2. Random Certainty

    May 25, 2022 at 11:25 am

    Most true entrepreneurs start out in garages and basements with thousands of hours of failures before success.
    Prototypes and patents get you to the investment level, not pandering and appeasement.

  3. Mind Burst TV

    May 25, 2022 at 11:39 am

    What about Nigeria?

  4. Jerry Elolo Klu

    May 25, 2022 at 11:45 am

    | We must consider some of the most unlikely environments, and domains, when we are looking for startups, entrepreneurs and leaders to invest in. There are many women who, as entrepreneurs, are building and solving some of the most amazing and seemingly intractable problems. They also need investments in their startup companies |

    Here is my summary for this TED Talk.

    • Zat

      May 25, 2022 at 11:57 am

      Thanks, the TED talk felt like beating too much around the bush.

    • Raygun9000

      May 25, 2022 at 1:28 pm

      You missed the part where she gave birth in America and needed a blood transfusion. Then moved back to her childhood country of Nigeria to…make a pharmaceutical delivery company.

    • glichjthebicycle

      May 25, 2022 at 5:38 pm

      @Raygun9000 How is the first 70% of that sentence relevant to others?

    • Raygun9000

      May 25, 2022 at 5:55 pm

      @glichjthebicycle indeed! This was a mess of a presentation!

  5. Bekjan Z

    May 25, 2022 at 11:48 am

    TED is a clown show -_-
    Political agenda machine, just spewing out most absurd lies

  6. Jerry Elolo Klu

    May 25, 2022 at 11:49 am

    Nice talk, Temie Giwa-Tubosun!

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    May 25, 2022 at 12:08 pm

    Hi❤

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    May 25, 2022 at 12:08 pm

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    May 25, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    Nice sharing..

  10. Raygun9000

    May 25, 2022 at 1:32 pm

    What is the gap? And why is the gap?

    And what’s with the audience reaction? she said almost nothing of substance!

  11. Odreaded

    May 25, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    This went really well when people gave their money to the BLM leader that was also a women right? Lol that lady has several mansions now with her and I quote “white guilt money”.

  12. David Horne

    May 25, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    Brilliant talk, thank you for sharing Temie. Our interests are very much aligned and I invited you to watch my TEDx “The Fight for Fairer Funding”

  13. المالية العامة و الضرائب

    May 25, 2022 at 3:51 pm

    It doesn’t mean good !!!.

  14. Ernesto Dialogo

    May 25, 2022 at 4:07 pm

    What the most important thing came I diea.

  15. wysiwyg

    May 25, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    This myopic viewpoint is what led to the Theranos fiasco. Fund ideas, not gender or skin color.

  16. wysiwyg

    May 25, 2022 at 4:27 pm

    Jeff Bezos endured 60 failed meetings before he got the money to fund Amazon. This is nothing to do with gender or skin color or race. Stop with the appeasement and pandering requests.

  17. Bani

    May 25, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    Most people in the world nowadays give women the highest position in the corporate where the company is going through tough times & is most likely to fail, and when it does, the woman who is given the highest authority is belittled by everyone around her. That’s the problem. Things like these promote stereotypes against women saying that, “women don’t know how to lead people in the company” & that “women are incompetent”. This is also known as the ‘Glass Cliff phenomenon’. Too disastrous, I must say, everyone should give themselves a chance to do something which would contribute to the world. It’s 2022 & the society still has the archaic beliefs of the 18th century. Everyone is highly educated in the modern world, but still, most of the people are busy trash-talking the 49% of the population of the world. And half of these people are minority, they trick the majority into believing that they are always correct. These 10% of the people are ruining the world & making the majority agree with facts based on no-evidence. ‘Collective Illusion’ is the correct term for it. There’s still time for change, imagine, if you see robots trash-talking in the future, won’t you take any action? Would you even like the robot?

  18. glichjthebicycle

    May 25, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    The market is based on demand and supply. Investors invest into concepts and not people. Investors invest into a company because they trust the company and they believe in it.. Not because of the skin color of the CEO. If there is one thing investors hate its uncertainty.
    But hey it’s easy making demands when it’s not your money.

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    May 25, 2022 at 9:06 pm

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  20. Sommy Nriama

    May 25, 2022 at 11:16 pm

    0:05 WRONG!
    The question should be, “which country has the highest PERCENTAGE of female entrepreneurs?” and not “which country has the highest NUMBER of female entrepreneurs?”

  21. Bobby Trill

    May 25, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    It’s really easy to start businesses when there’s literally no businesses to compete with lol. In Ghana you could literally set up a desk and put some sandals on it, and you’re a business owners lol

  22. Judy

    May 26, 2022 at 9:13 am

    *Don’t* *only* *spend* *your money💰💰 also invest so you* *can have multiple streams* *of income* 💵💵

    • mark Sydney

      May 26, 2022 at 9:18 am

      Aggred, investment is the key to financial freedom

  23. katherandefy

    May 26, 2022 at 10:26 am

    Oof the jealousy in the comments!

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    • Twuan Dixon

      May 26, 2022 at 12:28 pm

      What are people jealous of exactly?

  24. Kelly Kim

    May 26, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    동사만 잡겠습니다

  25. prtzn

    May 26, 2022 at 6:13 pm

    “Which country in the world has the highest number of entrepreneurs?” “Uganda! 39% of entrepreneurs in Uganda are women”. How can we take you seriously when you conflate the number of female entrepreneurs with the percentage of female entrepreneurs in a country? If Uganda had 10 entrepreneurs and 9 of them were women then 90% of entrepreneurs in Uganda would be women, but if Belgium had 200.000 entrepreneurs and “only” 30% were women, then Belgium would have 60.000 female entrepreneurs. Which country do you think investors are more likely to pour money into?

    • Twuan Dixon

      May 28, 2022 at 8:32 am

      The reality of being an entrepreneur in a 3rd world nation is alot more mellow than in western nations lol

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