Egla Ntumba

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at MsFiT Ventures

Interviewer

Egla Ntumba is the co-founder and managing partner of MsFiT Ventures, a Cape Town based SME debt fund that provides flexible working capital and supply chain finance to female-led SMEs.

Prior to that she was a senior venture capital investor at Newtown Partners where, on behalf of DP World’s corporate innovation fund, she invests in disruptive technology startups with global ambitions. Her investment focus was on global trade enablement and logistics. Looking specifically at early-stage startups that use technology to change the basis of competition in supply chain, logistics, and healthcare.

Before joining venture capital, she was a corporate banker and deployed $1B+ in trade finance and managed debt portfolios of large multinational corporations (like Coca Cola, DHL, Reckitt Benckiser) across East, West, and Southern Africa.

Egla had an early start in entrepreneurship when, for eight years, she was the chief operating office (COO) of a high-growth consumer retail business where she led the expansion strategy. She is passionate about leveraging her platform to help disruptive small businesses scale across Africa.