From Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa, innovators are coming up with brilliant ideas and launching new ventures. I know this firsthand, as Founding Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures and former Director of Mobile Investments at the social impact fund Omidyar Network. Under my watch at Omidyar, I guided investment toward an East African mobile tech incubator, invested in one of the fastest-growing Indian mobile classified ad websites (now valued at over $1 billion), and channeled $5 million worth of for-profit investment into a Latin American wireless company that creates credit profiles from offline and online data.
