Kartik is an experienced venture investor focused on building secondary infrastructure for African VC. He served as Head of Investments for Launch Africa Ventures before progressing to Head of Exits, where he built out the fund’s exit function and delivered its first distributions back to investors. He has also worked with Five35 Ventures and authored “Rethinking VC in Africa,” examining how the continent’s venture model needs to evolve. He is now developing Clearflow, a platform building a regulated trading venue to make secondary transactions accessible, compliant, and efficient across the continent.

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