Akinyi Wavinya is a startup specialist from Nairobi, Kenya with 7 years of experience in operations, capacity building, growth and strategy. From ideation to build and scale she’s supported early stage VCs move from zero to one and two. Cutting across sectors, her work includes prototyping and setting up a logistics company, scaling and productizing a marketplace supporting an acquisition, and expanding an e-commerce platform to a new market.Leveraging her unique position and experience as an implementer and operator at various stages, Akinyi’s superpowers are her capacity to; i) think big picture, while tactically executing on the day-to-day;, ii) create systems structures for teams to deliver consistently; and iii) engage stakeholders.Akinyi is exceptionally passionate about creating, facilitating and securing dignified work for African youth. She’s invested the last 5 years of her career championing opportunities for Kenyan youth through various initiatives like career-launch student graduate programs, incubation and upskilling for informal casuals, social protection options including health care and asset financing options for gig workers.