🗞️ The Brief from the Beta Collective

Hello Comrades! The Beta Collective is super excited to share our September newsletter! And yes we know October is around the corner.

🗞️ The Brief from the Beta Collective

Written by Ukeme Daniel & Sanyu Ntanda

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The Beta Collective is super excited to share our September newsletter! And yes we know October is around the corner.


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In this Edition
  • A recap of our last 3 events in Austin, Dallas, and Houston
  • Sponsorship opportunities
  • Recommended reads
  • 🌟 Spotlight Showcase 🌟
  • Opportunities
  • All the ways you can connect with us


Events Recap

This summer, the Beta Collective held several networking events across Texas.
We’d like to acknowledge all the companies, organizations, and attendees we connected with at our recent Network and Showcase events:


Dallas Meetup

Our Dallas Forth Worth event was a great success where collaboration and network exchange between African/black founders, entrepreneurs, and companies took place. Thank you, Midlothian Angel Network for being such a great event partner!

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Companies in attendance - Midlothian Angel Network, Wig Wear, OKIE Asset Management , **UNLOCK:** The Secrets To A Winning Life

Dallas attendees:

Biliaminu Odunewu: building a fashion platform

Maximilienne Mbinack: Founder of Wig wear, a collapsible wig head to make travel more convenient.

VEREE HAWKINS BROWN: financial advisor, seeking to network

Zuri Bracy: looking to network

Wale Salami: Co-Founder and Executive Director of Midlothian Angel Network

Funsho Oke: Angel investor and Asset Manager at OKIE Asset Management

Taopheek Babayeju: Author of UNLOCK: The Secrets To A Winning Life


Austin Meetup

Thanks to sponsorship by Capital factory, and support from Elev8 Ventures we put together a great showcase and network event in Austin. We even had our first guests drive down from San Antonio.

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Companies in attendance: ACC Fashion Incubator, Elev8 ventures

Click to view all Austin attendees:

  • Ruth Zota: Frontend Developer, wants to build Nigeria Alibaba, supply chain solutions, looking for a sales and market cofounder. Africa to Asia and Europe
  • Tanaka Tava: Venture Capital Associate at Capital factory, looking to create networking events
  • Nina Means: Runs Fashion accelerator at ACC, looking to enter new markets
  • Juwon Isola-Osobu: Creating CRM for micro entrepreneurs, and small businesses, automate customer service calls.
  • Zo: Building Gamestory
  • Howard Douglas: from LA 2 months in Austin : financial planner services for individual
  • Audrey: operations Queen
  • Jackie A.: Jackie luxury brand
  • Anthony: financial analysis expert
  • Sam F.: creating a Saas platform
  • Tunji Fadiora.: Building a birthing mother app, runs Elev8 ventures
  • Letosha Shepherd: World health Care hub: Building a Recruiting and staffing agency- traveling nurses, think: fiverr for doctors
  • Sarıya Harris: looking to network

Houston Meetup

The city that knows how to party, we definitely had fun here, and like Austin and Dallas we met some amazing and built some great partnerships.

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Companies in attendance : the Ntanda Law Firm, NTU.city, Tutoring Success, Shift Enterprise Academy

Houston attendees:

Yorrick Ayume: NTU, one stop shop for African businesses

Según Ariyo: Tutoring success: providing tutoring services

Sanyu Ntanda: Ntanda Law firm

Ethan Brisby: Incubating small businesses in East Africa

Tayo Oyesile: Building AI platform for Fintech companies, Looking to network

Tiziana: Hydrographer, Looking to network

Amaka: Pharmacist, and fashion line creator, Looking to network


🎙️ Present or speak at a Future Event! 🎙️

If you are interested in presenting your startup product or would simply like to present a topic at a future event, contact us. Contact Info Below!


  • Reads: Unlock by Taopheek Babayeju
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🌟 Spotlight Showcase 🌟

This month, we would like to showcase TipHub Venture Capital

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Located in Lagos, Nigeria, TipHub is an investment fund focused on supporting and investing in companies at the intersection of technology and impact.

The Beta Collective showcases companies, people, initiatives and products in our newsletter!vIf you would like to be featured please send us your information! it’s free!

🌟 Opportunities 🌟


🌟 JOIN THE BETA COLLECTIVE TEAM 🌟

  • ADVISORY COUNCIL: The Beta Collective is seeking nominations for its Advisory Council. Specialists with expertise in the African Startup Ecosystem, African-focused entrepreneurship, and investing in Africa are welcome. All nominations can be sent to us at Ukeme@thebetacollective.com

  • COMMUNITY COUNCIL: We are currently seeking community council members in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, and New York. Let us know if you would like to be a lead representative for the Beta Collection in one of these cities.


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