Vassia Daskalakis

Vas is a former JPM Investment Banker who moved from New York to Nairobi to raise capital for startups & SMEs across East Africa with investment advisor, I-DEV International. She subsequently built up an early stage ed-tech startup as Growth Manager, helping to refine their model to achieve product-market fit for Pan-African expansion. Africa AI Labs developed organically from her work at a Kiambu orphanage to stop high school graduated orphans from returning to the slums from which they were rescued.