“I’m a recovering accountant,” says Tramayne Monaghan, Chief Ventures Officer at NEXT176 — a role where he invests in and builds ventures designed to impact a billion lives. In this episode of Innovate Africa, Monaghan shares lessons from his decade at Tencent, where he learned the power of building products “with a behemoth behind you” — and why at NEXT176, the work is about both profit and purpose. 

From urging VCs to “get out of the boardroom” to putting teams on the ground with customers, Monaghan explains how real impact starts with understanding people’s problems before designing solutions. 

Watch how NEXT176 is combining corporate scale with startup grit to help entrepreneurs create change across Africa.