Ep 38: Finding and funding human empowerment through tech with William McCoy.

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with tech entrepreneur William McCoy about human empowerment through technology and crowdfunding in Africa.

Welcome to episode 38. Today’s guest is William McCoy, an American tech entrepreneur who has spent over 17 years leading business ventures in real estate, fintech, app development and clean energy. He also supports Fortune 500 clients in enterprise software and hardware services, through scaling global Electric Vehicles and solar energy operations. William’s most recent business called Kurudy which means Return in Swahili. It is a reward based crowd funding platform using the power of regtech, fintech, and AI. One that aims to raise capital, align incentives, protect backers, and empower creators specifically in Africa. We were randomly connected to William by a rather clever little bit of tech...that normally we would ignore but for some reason on this occasion we didn’t. And as result Carmen and I landed up having a really interesting conversation with William that would have made a great podcast. So we came back to hopefully create and capture another exciting and enlightening conversation about empowerment, community and how tech and humans can harmoniously co-exist. As you know Carmen and I are by no means global economic specialists however we did our best to discuss how…

People in this episode

Host: Carmen

Guest: William McCoy

Topics covered

• human empowerment
• technology
• crowdfunding
• community
• cultural challenges

Keywords

• human empowerment
• technology
• crowdfunding
• Africa
• community
• diversity
• fintech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kurudy, Fortune 500

Places: Africa

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