Lavanya Anand

Lavanya Anand is a Senior Investment Manager at the Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (part of the AfricInvest group), a €110M VC fund investing in Seed to Series B stage tech startups across Africa.

She has over 7 years of experience in Africa VC, previously a Principal with VestedWorld. Before moving to Kenya in 2018, Lavanya was based in the US where she worked as a CPA in public accounting and corporate finance. She has a BA in Business Economics from UCLA and an MBA from Chicago Booth. Her sectors of interest include fintech, retail / e-commerce, and consumer

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