David Osei (Dropifi)

Oct 18, 2014, 6:00 – 9:00 PM (UTC)

Accra

Hub Accra, Alice Augustt Court, 23 Klanaa Street, Osu Ako-Adjei, Accra, 0000

David Osei is an award winning entrepreneur from Ghana and Co-founder of Dropifi Limited, Africa’s first technology startup to be accepted into Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups Accelerator Program. In 2012 Kauffman Foundation’s Startup Open competition named Dropifi the world best startup company for the year after beating startups from over 120 countries.

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David Osei is an award winning entrepreneur from Ghana and Co-founder of Dropifi Limited, Africa’s first technology startup to be accepted into Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups Accelerator Program.

In 2012 Kauffman Foundation’s Startup Open competition named Dropifi the world best startup company for the year after beating startups from over 120 countries. He has been featured on CNN among other reputable news media outlets.

David has a background in Mathematics and an early graduate of the Meltwater Entrepreneurship School of Technology. He has consulted for the Government of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology among others.

He was named one of 2014’s 40 under 40 by the New York based The Network Journal. And was one of the businessmen invited to the 1st US – Africa Business Forum by Bloomberg in Washington. David has been a guest speaker at Harvard University, Stanford University, where he speaks on Venture Financing Africa and Accelerating African Startups.

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  • David Osei

    Dropifi

When

When

Saturday, October 18, 2014
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

6:00 PMNetworking and Food
7:00 PMFireside Chat
8:00 PMNetworking

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