Ben Lyon (Kopo Kopo)

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Ben Lyon (Kopo Kopo)

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Ben is the co-founder of Kopo Kopo and currently serves as Entrepreneur in Residence at DFS Lab, an early-stage FinTech incubator supported by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ben splits his time between supporting startups and running his new venture, Hover, an SDK that enables developers to integrate mobile money in their Android applications. Ben lives in Seattle with his wife, Jess, and loves to read, travel and work with entrepreneurs.

Agenda

06:00 PM Networking and Food

07:00 PM Fireside Chat

08:00 PM Networking

Hosted By Betty Mutimba, Nairobi Director

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Betty is Africa Regional Director for Startup Grind and runs the Nairobi chapter. Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting founders in almost 200 cities. She worked at Fezah as Business Operations Lead in Nairobi. Fezah provides you the simplest way to book a musician, band or DJ for your events. Previously, Betty co-founded Valuraha, a technology startup aimed at spreading financial literacy.

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