Sharon Githinji

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Partner, Cedar Partners - venture capital · due diligence · board work

Cedar Partners
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
16+ years experience
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Swahili
InvestingAdvising
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Overview

23 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Backed 43 founders at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 38 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later. Most at home with due diligence and venture capital.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in iOS apps
  • Advice on iOS apps
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on board work
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests

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Skills
board workclimate techventure capitaldue diligence
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into Series A fintech in MENA

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
IOS apps
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 3 weeks.

Nairobi, Kenya · remote OKclimate techventure capitalboard work
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for angels writing a first cheque: fintech and climate tech

Topics
iOS apps, due diligence, board work
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

23 years of fintech. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Nairobi, Kenyaclimate techboard workventure capital
Open

Experience

  1. Partner
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Cedar Partners · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped 22 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
    • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 8%.
  2. Associate Partner
    Oct 2019 - Jul 2023
    Equity Bank · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped 18 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
  3. Associate Partner
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
    Takealot · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Senior Consultant
    Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
    Dangote Group · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Designed the operating model for a 8 thousand-person transformation.
  5. Consultant
    Apr 2011 - Jan 2015
    Safaricom · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Ran commercial diligence on 35 deals.

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Education

  1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    BEng, Business Administration
    1999 - 2003

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