Startup Notes

If we want jobs, we have to build and fund the businesses that create them.

Hey there, Pheneas from JuaFlow here. I share ideas and notes on building companies, local capital, and a better job market for Africa.

~1.0B

Africans are outside work and depend on the working 1/3.

72M+of them are idle youth of working age.

Nearly 1 in 2young workers live in working poverty.

Across the continent, only about 1 in every 3 people is employed.

That means ~1.0B others depend on the working 1/3. To change this, we need more people working, which is only possible if we have more companies able to create better incomes and lasting work.

12M/yr

young Africans enter the job market

A new generation looking for a way to earn, learn, and build.

~1.0B

people across Africa are not employed

With ~545M employed, that is about 1 worker for every 1.8 people outside employment.

~1 in 2

young workers in Sub-Saharan Africa live in poverty

A job must also pay enough to move life forward.

I began with the question of how businesses around us can become more competitive. That work has grown to more than 1M interactions.

Startup Notes extends that work further by exploring how more young people and local investors can collaborate to build more impactful and sustainable businesses.

Building something useful, or helping someone else do it?

Thoughtful conversations with founders and people backing African companies are always welcome.