Janade Du Plessis has personally invested in over 250 early-stage African businesses across 22 countries and operates Launch Africa like an investment bank with dedicated coverage teams while building ecosystem infrastructure including accelerators and capital networks in markets like DRC, Togo, and Cameroon where he was often the first institutional investor. He runs a large tech-enabled founder community platform that drives peer-to-peer learning and cross-border expansion between portfolio companies, and deliberately invests in portfolio infrastructure companies like mental health and tech recruitment startups that then provide subsidized services to all founders in his network. Janade Du Plessis has personally invested in over 250 early-stage African businesses across 22 countries and operates Launch Africa like an investment bank with dedicated coverage teams while building ecosystem infrastructure including accelerators and capital networks in markets like DRC, Togo, and Cameroon where he was often the first institutional investor. He runs a large tech-enabled founder community platform that drives peer-to-peer learning and cross-border expansion between portfolio companies, and deliberately invests in portfolio infrastructure companies like mental health and tech recruitment startups that then provide subsidized services to all founders in his network.