To Members of Tekedia Capital:

Tekedia Capital is super excited to congratulate our portfolio company, Revna Biosciences, for securing Sub-Saharan Africa’s first approval to deploy QIAGEN’s NeuMoDx™ 96 diagnostics platform, which has hitherto been available only in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. We congratulate Team Revna led by Dr Derrick Akpalu for this major milestone.

Tekedia Capital members largely funded this vision, supplied by a fellow citizen who was in America and wanted to do something big in the continent. With your funding, he left his medical profession and returned to pursue that destination: #defeat diseases. For the full press release, go here. 

Other Updates:

• – Our sister company, Tekedia Institute, which runs the largest business program in Africa, will host an eminent business leader, Azeez Lawal, Managing Director Trustbanc Capital, as part of the current Tekedia Mini-MBA. The topic is  “Understanding Nigeria’s New Economic Policies for Your Personal Economy and Company Operations”. 

Time is 7pm WAT on Saturday; Zoom link is in the Active Session of the Board when you login if you are interested. 

• – Venture Investing and Portfolio Management (July 3 – 29, 2023) . We will send instructions to all ACTIVE members by June 27; the program begins July 3.

As always, thanks for your partnership.

Regards,

Team Tekedia Capital

Organizations exist to fix frictions in markets. In other words, when you put that signpost that you are open for business, you are announcing to the world that you have the capacity to solve some problems which the market wants solved. Solving those problems  will mean building and creating products and services.

But how do you create products and services? You need to combine and recombine factors of production. That translation is very important because three cardinal things are at play: the PEOPLE, the processes and the tools. The People is the pivot upon which any organization can execute its mission.

Join Tekedia Live tomorrow as our Faculty, Ibironke Tolu-Ogunpolu, Chartered FCIPD, SPHR , educates on how we can develop an effective PEOPLE Management System in firms. Our Faculty is a leading thought-leader in this domain. A Director – People in M&A Transactions and Restructuring- in one of the finest knowledge organizations in the world and a founder of a non-profit which makes PEOPLE better. Come and learn how to win with #PEOPLE.

Tekedia Mini-MBA >> learn from the best. Zoom link in the class board.

It works like that, and America is always good at executing that playbook: may the best win, whether it is coming from a government or a private company. In the age of Rockefeller, his Standard Oil’s standards became most of the national standards in the US oil and gas sector. Carnegie executed a similar playbook in the steel sector. Simply, where the idea comes from does not matter, what matters is the quality and adoption by markets.

We’re seeing that right in the electric vehicle industry as the sector converges on Tesla’s North American Charging Standard for charging EV vehicles. Rivian, a small rival EV car company, just joined the network. Other traditional companies like GM and Ford are already on board. And just like that, the world’s finest car company, Tesla, has a new revenue source: charging network and making it available to competitors.

Tesla’s charging network continues to gain ground. Rivian has become the latest electric vehicle maker to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard. The move — which follows similar announcements from Ford and General Motors earlier this year — will allow Rivian owners to access the Tesla Supercharger network starting in 2024. NACS “is rapidly becoming the industry standard,” Bloomberg notes, and not only boosts Rivian’s appeal, but helps Tesla cement a revenue stream selling power to EV drivers other than Tesla owners.

Tesla opened up its formerly proprietary charging network in November, in part to qualify for federal funding earmarked for EV charging infrastructure. Hyundai is also weighing NACS adoption, Reuters reports.

Tesla is taxing the world of automakers by selling some carbon credits (that enable most to keep making hydrocarbon-powered cars) and now charging networks. Of course, those car brands will happily come along since where to charge an EV is one of the core factors people consider when buying one. Many do not have many charging locations and customers avoid those brands. If Tesla can help fix that friction, they will be happy to tell their customers to check the next Tesla charging location.

May the best Win! Every nation needs to learn this.

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Comment 1: True capitalists want to make money but they really also want to make a difference. They want to solve problems and make things better. Most of the men who built America like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford etc are typical examples. They have faults but they seem to have done way more good than evil. They build quality products, lower prices and cumulatively give way more to society than they take. Africa needs people like these and not people who just look for ways to reap off the public through false capitalism and pretentious entrepreneurship.

And talking about Elon and Telsa, at the core, he is more focused on doing good even as he does well financially. Have followed him since circa 2011 and while he may not be a saint on many levels, I think he is overall more of a blessing to humanity