Post by Martin K.

Something is happening in Boston that I didn’t fully plan. Over the last few weeks I’ve been quietly building Africquisitions — a credentialed deal-flow platform connecting US institutional networks with African acquisitions infrastructure, Rwanda as the beachhead. I didn’t launch anything. No website. No press release. No ad spend. But the right people keep finding their way into the conversation. A physician-scientist from Brigham and Women’s who wants to build on the business side. A Harvard postdoc geneticist who physically carried research microscopes from Cambridge UK to Ghana himself. An MIT Sloan trained PE veteran with $1.5B in Ghana deal experience. A University of Auckland AI professor on sabbatical at MIT. A Harvard Medical School lecturer and biotech CEO. Inbound messages from people who spent the winter in East Africa looking for exactly this bridge. All of it through one room — Venture Cafe Boston — and the networks that flow through it. Africa will have the world’s largest workforce by 2050. The demographic dividend is real. But it only converts to economic power if high-value job creation — particularly in biotech and knowledge economy sectors — keeps pace with population growth. The infrastructure for that doesn’t exist yet. We’re building it. Karibu Kafe launches in Kigali. The room where it happens. If you’re thinking about Africa as the next decade’s frontier — or you have US institutional ties and want to know how to use them — let’s talk.