![jobs at rising tide interactive jobs at rising tide interactive](https://teachonline.ca/sites/default/files/tools-trends/banner/1140x400-blended-3.jpg)
![jobs at rising tide interactive jobs at rising tide interactive](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cms/10.1086/321299/asset/images/medium/fg1.jpeg)
![jobs at rising tide interactive jobs at rising tide interactive](http://assets.climatecentral.org/images/uploads/news/hero-harmon-map-with-logo.jpg)
My background is in information technology, so this was new to me at the time. I used to watch and listen to the kind of questions that were asked. If I recall correctly, he brought about 50 of us together, and every so often, we would meet and listen to pitches. I think this was 2014/2015, and Tomi Davies had started off Lagos Angel Network and wanted a group of us to come in and understand what it was all about. Now I’m on the board, but I got started there. I got into angel investing by referral with the Lagos Angel Network. How did you get started with angel investing? Techpoint Africa caught up with her for a chat, and she held nothing back as she shared her experience. After getting a taste of angel investing with the Lagos Angel Network and seeing how hard it was for women to get funded, she co-founded Rising Tide Africa to get more women involved in angel investing. This is a problem Yemi Keri, one of a handful of women investing in African startups, is passionate about solving. And only 10% of West African startups that cumulatively raised $1m between 20 had at least one female co-founder. Axios reports that 12.4% of decision-makers in US venture capital firms are women. One reason for this is low representation in VC firms. Their figures show that 800 female-founded startups received $4.9bn from investors - a 27% decrease from the same period in 2019. According to Crunchbase, global VC funding to female founders dropped in 2020. Historically, women have been underrepresented in the workplace, and this also plays out in the venture capital space.