Impact investing, SDGs and Innovation with 'Tokunboh Ishmael
Conclude the term’s programming of the African Founders Webinar Series with a special in-person fireside chat with 'Tokunboh Ishmael, co-founder and Managing Director of Alitheia Capital, discussing how innovation can integrate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Speaker Bio:
'Tokunboh Ishmael is a global voice for creating wealth and impact by unlocking the potential of businesses that provide essential goods and services that address the accessibility, affordability, and inclusion needs of underserved markets to drive shared prosperity. She has dedicated the past two decades to the relentless pursuit of a vision: investing in businesses that foster equity, fairness, and inclusion to create wealth and transform lives.
Always drawn to uncharted waters, she was an early pioneer of socially responsible and impact investing, especially in Africa, and a visionary who forged a path for investing in Fintechs to drive financial inclusion and injecting gender consciousness into the investment process for superior returns.
As co-founder and Managing Director of Alitheia Capital, a female-led private equity firm, she is one of the first in Africa to pioneer impact investing private equity that embodies her philosophy of profit with a purpose. She also co-founded Alitheia IDF where she raised over $100 million to invest in female-led businesses in Africa. Some of the companies she has invested in are already changing and redefining their sector.
‘Tokunboh was a Panelist on the popular Dragons Den Nigeria TV show. She is a mentor to entrepreneurs of small-to-mid-sized businesses, helping them grow and scale their companies to reach their full potential. She is a sought-after collaborator and a partner to African and European governments helping them to tackle intractable problems resulting from a lack of access to essential products and services.
‘Tokunboh is also a staunch advocate for financial literacy and the creator of Yellow Cowries, a platform that employs gamification to teach kids and entrepreneurs how to achieve financial freedom.
She is a Yale World Fellow and a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute’s Finance Leaders Fellowship and she sits on several boards, from Fintech to fast-moving consumer goods companies and to the Earthshot Prize, launched by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and David Attenborough to support and scale solutions to some of the world’s greatest environmental problems.
WHEN: Wednesday 18th March 2026
5.00PM – 6.00 PM: Fireside discussion in the Provost’s Drawing Room
6.00PM - 6.30PM: Networking and drinks
WHERE: Provost’s Drawing Room, King’s College, Cambridge
TICKETS: Register here.