Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Backing early stage startups @lavavc_ Building a Borderless Africa @borderlessaf Co-founded Global Impact Visa / EHF 🌍🇪🇹🇹🇿🇰🇪🇳🇿🇺🇸🇰🇷
Today I'm excited to officially announce LAVA - an early-stage fund backing exceptional founders building the financial plumbing and trust tools for the African market. My journey from @borderlessaf to magma and now LAVA has been guided by one conviction: Africa's unique market…
"If we’re serious about making ENS (and Ethereum more broadly) a truly global public good, then this is the blueprint: go where the energy is. Find the people already building, already dreaming, already shipping. Meet them where they are. Help remove friction. Help them win."…
I recently spent two weeks in Kilifi and Nairobi, Kenya, supporting magma (by @borderlessaf) - a residency for African founders supported by the @ENS_DAO Public Goods working group. The experience was incredible. Here are my thoughts: thomasclowes.com/ens-public-goo…
Been waiting for this!!
IT’S HERE. Onboard 3.0 just dropped - one app to manage your USD, stablecoins, cards and crypto No more hacks. No more middlemen. Just global money, working. Get Onboard 💜
With stablecoins on the rise in the West, @yosephayele looks at how before USD stablecoins, the parallel USD economy was already normalised. The next crypto innovation frontier in Africa isn’t just ‘more USD stablecoins’, it’s bringing African currencies onchain too. Read more…
I've been beating the drums about stablecoins in Africa for years. They've finally hit mainstream in the West! I'm releasing a 2-part series to look beyond the surface-level takes on why stablecoins thrive in Africa, and seek to understand the forces that led us there. Part I…
Why are stablecoins thriving in Africa? What are the underlying forces that drove USD stablecoin rise on the continent, and where is the space going? Read Part I of a series on stablecoins in Africa: writing.lavavc.io/p/stablecoins-…
I've been beating the drums about stablecoins in Africa for years. They've finally hit mainstream in the West! I'm releasing a 2-part series to look beyond the surface-level takes on why stablecoins thrive in Africa, and seek to understand the forces that led us there. Part I…
I've been beating the drums about stablecoins in Africa for years. They've finally hit mainstream in the West! I'm releasing a 2-part series to look beyond the surface-level takes on why stablecoins thrive in Africa, and seek to understand the forces that led us there. Part I…
We're excited to back @butterygg as they pioneer better treasury allocation through Conditional Funding Markets (CFMs). Allowing the market indicate who will create more value for each pool of capital is transformative for Africa and many regions around the world. We have…
Having learnt a few things about how capital is really allocated today, we're excited to invest in @butterygg, who are here to help us all make better decisions. We're keen to program more level playing fields for African founders and builders to compete for global resources.
100%. These are the patterns we’re seeing across Africa: - stablecoins hit a powerful PMF and growing fast. Regional & global trade running through stablecoins rails - Those that are seamlessly orchestrating fiat and stablecoins are winning - leveraging the scale of tradfi and…
Stablecoins working at scale significantly accelerates crypto as the future of the financial system. All financial services will need to be (re)built for this ecosystem. This is a once in a generation platform shift. The major pillars of the future of finance are up for grabs.
Sat down with @yosephayele and @MissPurrple_ to chat about my journey and what it means to be building onchain & in public. PS: Liquid has evolved since we had this interview. More info on this to come in a few weeks.
Could building onchain & in public be the best way to build? We sat down with @njokuScript to delve into his journey from being a developer to eventually taking on the mantle of a startup founder, building in a very openly public manner, onchain.
2nd episode of Borderless Pod is out! An epic conversation with @njokuScript who was so real and authentic about his journey as a builder. It’s very refreshing to hear stories like this. Super valuable for new founders, and those in the grind. with @MissPurrple_
Could building onchain & in public be the best way to build? We sat down with @njokuScript to delve into his journey from being a developer to eventually taking on the mantle of a startup founder, building in a very openly public manner, onchain.
Excited to launch Borderless Pod with @MissPurrple_ on @borderlessaf! So so many stories to tell of founders and all types of builders from across Africa and beyond. Here is the debut👇
The Borderless Pod is a new podcast led by @MissPurrple_ Ep1 is guest hosted by @yosephayele Welcome to the documentation of the new internet renaissance 🌋 Remember to share & subscribe so you never miss an episode! 🔔 youtu.be/gPVlaM9-pkE
A great piece by Andy (@cryptowanderer) breaking down what we mean by 'trust infrastructure' at @lavavc_ and the types of problems ripe for innovative & practical solutions writing.lavavc.io/p/what-is-trus…
We are thrilled to officially launch LAVA - an early-stage fund backing exceptional founders who are building foundational infrastructure for Africa’s economy. Read more about our thesis and why the future is being built at this frontier: writing.lavavc.io/p/launching-la…
Boom 🌋 I continue to be humbled by the calibre of talent we keep finding across Africa. It’s inspiring to spend two weeks amongst the magma3 builders, learning about the ways they are solving complex problems, and their commitment to creating longterm value on the continent and…
The 25 founders & builders who attended the 3rd magma residency, join the Borderless Africa community as researchers, problem solvers and innovators. magma exists to serve as a platform, this is what magma3 looked like, and what it means going forward: borderless.africa/blog/magma3
What vision do you have for Africa, that can be built or executed within the next 5 years to a decade? It can be in any industry/category, let us know what you would like to see from the continent. Share your vision as a comment in the thread below🧵
Building is not an easy task, regardless of the problem being solved. Thank you to @climbingK for sharing such helpful insights with magma3 builders on sustainably scaling & using blockchain tech beyond its typical use cases. We hope the collaborative relationship continues 🔥
Our founder @climbingK had an inspiring fireside chat with top founders and developers from across Africa, hosted by Borderless Africa (@borderlessaf). Kay shared insights from MVL’s journey—years of hustle, how we scaled sustainably, and why blockchain is central to our next big…
It was powerful to hear from @climbingK the real grounded stories of building in mobility and do what many saw as impossible in emerging markets. Zero commission fees for ride sharing drivers + tokenized vehicles with affordable financing + onchain credit scoring & insurance +…
Our founder @climbingK had an inspiring fireside chat with top founders and developers from across Africa, hosted by Borderless Africa (@borderlessaf). Kay shared insights from MVL’s journey—years of hustle, how we scaled sustainably, and why blockchain is central to our next big…
Noise is short lived. Innovations that define entire regions and generations take years + decades to build. It’s a privilege to be amongst incredible founders at magma right now, building the foundations for the new layer of 1.5 Billion people’s economy. The 76 founders in…
the disconnect between CT & grassroots adoption of crypto is astonishing! we‘re so focused on institutions buying our bags & tokenizing Wall Street, but places like Africa is where real impact will be made and almost nobody is talking about it! shame! thank you @yosephayele,…
As previous cohort builders have said, “magma changes how you approach building”, we hope that is true for this cohort too