Ramona Kasavan (MimiWomen)
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Ramona Kasavan (MimiWomen)
May is female founders month for Startup Grind globally. In Joburg we are proud to host Ramona Kasavan founder and CEO of MimiWomen, a sanitary pads company that has distributed in excess of 650,000 pads in 7 provinces, keeping 25,000 girls in school. She is a social entrepreneur and media personality who is strongly outspoken about women empowerment. She runs an in-house enterprise development programme, Pads and Cents, that allows women to earn a commission on pads sold. MimiWomen is now in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and DRC.
Ramona holds a triple major in Media, Marketing and Communications and an honours degree in Marketing Strategy. Join us as Ramona lets us in on the journey from ideation to success and how her venture keeps supporting young female entrepreneurs.
Agenda
5:30 pm Networking and Food
6:30 pm Fireside Chat
7:30 pm Networking
Speaker
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Hosted By
Sandras Phiri, JOHANNESBURG DIRECTOR
Sandras is director for Startup Grind Johannesburg and Lusaka. He is the CEO and founder of Africa Trust Academy and Pranary and has worked with corporates and entrepreneurs in South Africa and Zambia. He has a BSc Computer Science and an MBA from University of Cape Town. He has experience in mobile payments, banking, insurance, IT and education. Sandras is passionate about connecting African entrepreneurs to the world and global entrepreneurs to Africa. Sandras lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Twitter: @sandrasphiri (http://twitter.com/sandrasphiri) Global Partner
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Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.
Sponsorss
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As South Africa’s leading Business Bank, we understand what it means to do business in Africa and beyond.
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Secure, Online Payment Processing for South Africa. PayFast is a payments processing service for South Africa. Payfast now allows sellers to accept Bitcoin payments.
Zoona helps people send and receive money when they need to most so that communities can thrive. Zoona also offers entrepreneurs an opportunity to build their own businesses and create wealth and employment by providing mobile payment solutions, financial services, business management tools and support.
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At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
Partners
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Startup News For Emerging Markets
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Sight & Sound is a premier technical supplier to the live event industry. Renowned for our energy, creativity and innovative approach. To create unique, inspiring and power.full experiences to help build and strengthen our clients’ brands.
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Ramona Kasavan (MimiWomen)