Temie Giwa-Tubosun
Founder, LifeBank | Transforming Healthcare Access in Africa
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Temie Giwa-Tubosun is the founder of LifeBank, a technology-enabled medical distribution company that delivers critical blood and oxygen supplies across Nigeria. Under her leadership, LifeBank has saved thousands of lives by ensuring timely delivery of essential medical products.
Giwa-Tubosun's pioneering work has been recognized with the Keeper of the Dream Award and the Global Citizen Prize for Sustainability. She shares her entrepreneurial journey to inspire audiences on building purpose-driven companies that tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges.
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The funding gap in start-up investing
"It is time to close the funding gap for Black female-led start-ups the world over," says entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, whose company LifeBank delivers life-saving medical supplies to remote areas in Africa. Today, LifeBank operates successfully across the continent, but Giwa-Tubosun knows that barriers to funding prevent many other brilliant business ideas from blossoming. She highlights examples of impactful women-led ventures around the world -- and challenges investors to help more of them thrive.
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