Chairman and founder of the Africa Angels Network, Pule Taukobong recently sat down with AFKInsider and shared his journey to building an angel investment fund. In part one of the interview, he speaks on raising capital, selecting start-up industries and the motivation behind selling all of his belongings to support African entrepreneurs.

“The motivation behind starting Africa Angels Network was — I personally became very interested in the concept of angel investing, but the focus I wanted to have was in Africa,” Taukobong said.

“When I started coming across entrepreneurs…seeing the talent that we have back home was up there with the best was further encouragement to find a way — both with capital and structure — to support them.”