Khula Lula Aims To Assist Disruptive Small Businesses Grow By Providing Funding
Khula Lula Aims To Assist Disruptive Small Businesses Grow By Providing Funding. Milisa Mabinza the sole founder of Khula Lula, is a tech investment specialist who has built her career leveraging her expertise in both public and private equity to invest in the most disruptive ideas. She is a Bcom Accounting and Bcom Honours in Investment Management graduate that is currently pursuing the chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation.
As an investment manager and venture builder, she has rapidly grown an equity portfolio, that through gross returns has enabled the bootstrapping of Khula Lula (Pty) Ltd, an impact driven private equity fund she established in 2019. She has accumulated experience in venture building, venture design, fundraising, investment management, startup ideation, startup incubation and advisory. She is a consistent growth hacker using financial innovation to expand democratised access to financial markets and funding for marginalised groups. It is through her fund, Khula Lula that she strives to reach her penultimate vision of entering the private equity space and filling the investment gap for marginalised tech founders in South Africa’s private equity and venture capital landscape. It is with her dedication and work ethic that Khula Lula celebrates its first year as a fund in the private equity landscape, and looks forward to seeing many more.
Acquiring the future is not only the company’s slogan, but it is also a complete representation of Khula Lula’s vision. If one thinks about where the world was a few decades ago, the biggest companies in the world today were either bankrupt, non-existent or trading for losses because of the dotcom bubble, very few foresaw where they would be now and that is exactly the origin question at Khula Lula… How does it finance and own the next decade? The next disruptor? The next trillion dollar companies?
The company believes in the next few years innovations like the internet of things, robotics, virtual reality, machine learning, space, nanotechnology and automation will become mainstream technology that forms part of the day-to-day running of every company and personal lives. Its long term goal is to be at the forefront of funding and scaling start-ups that are owned and run by African women. To date through it’s first investment Khula Lula has created 1 funding opportunity, 9 jobs and 3 commercial contracts for African women.
