Kara Advisory works with funders, development finance institutions, hubs and corporates to design programmes, strengthen the organisations that support founders, and open new markets across the continent.
Services
Markets
Practical support for organisations and growth-stage companies entering or expanding into new African markets, grounded in local knowledge and relationships built over years of ecosystem work.
Convening
Design and facilitation of gatherings that bring funders, operators, investors and founders together to share knowledge, build skills and agree on next steps.
Programmes
Design of entrepreneurship programmes that work in real operating conditions, and support that strengthens the organisations delivering them.
People
Support for the leaders and teams doing ecosystem work, so their organisations stay focused, aligned and effective.
Founders
Advisory and mentorship for startup cohorts within funded programmes and portfolios, so support reaches the businesses it was designed for.
Our reach
Our work is grounded in years inside West Africa’s ecosystems, across Anglophone and Francophone markets. We bring that local understanding to clients across the continent, and shape every engagement around the market and the client it serves.
We know how things work on the ground: the regulation, the culture, the languages and the people who move things forward. That knowledge comes from working inside these markets, not studying them from outside.
No two clients or markets are the same. We adapt every programme, convening and strategy to the client’s goals and to the realities of the places it will operate.
Working relationships with a variety of players across the ecosystem, from founders, hubs and investors to corporates, governments and funders.
Founder
Principal Consultant
Karina founded Kara Advisory after years inside West Africa’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Most recently she was the last Regional Head of ANDE West Africa, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, leading a network of organisations across eight Anglophone and Francophone countries.
Her earlier work spans Impact Hub and the Tony Elumelu Foundation. She trained as a civil engineer and brings the same discipline to programme design: understand the load, design for the conditions, and build something that lasts.
Every engagement applies a gender lens, because who a programme reaches is part of whether it works.
How we engage
Each engagement has a clear scope, timeline and set of deliverables agreed up front.
We work alongside your team at every stage, so decisions are shared and the work reflects how your organisation operates.
Tools, frameworks and processes are documented so your team can run them after we step back.
Contact
Tell us a little about what you’re working on and we’ll reply within two working days. You can also email us directly.
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