The rise of the bottom up, and surprising lessons and leadership from Africa and other rising markets Christopher M. Schroeder Today I had, as I often do, a long call with a brilliant mind, and this time it was one of our partners, Falgu Shah. She has keen insight into fintech and a lens from abroad …

The Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) inaugural cohort of the Legatum Foundry Fellows tour Accra innovation ecosystem. Thirteen entrepreneurs from eight countries gathered in Ghana to tour the innovation and entrepreneurship community of Accra. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 4, 2021— This week, the Legatum Center for Development …

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduces the inaugural cohort of Legatum Foundry Fellows. Meet the 2021 Legatum Foundry Fellows Ehi Binitie, Rancard & Clear Space Labs As one of the continents pioneering tech entrepreneurs, Ehi has scaled multiple tech ventures across the world. Ehi co-founded Rancard, a …

The Legatum Center at MIT is excited to introduce a new cohort of 19 entrepreneurs into the Legatum Fellowship. The Legatum Fellowship is a competitive program designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs gain a world-class education at MIT, as well as extensive mentor and community support, in order to maximize their likelihood of success as principled, …

This is the second in a series of posts from our conversations at the 2021 Lauder Africa Symposium with the Lauder Institute at The Wharton School. The Symposium focused on understanding the world of work in a rapidly changing Africa. Africans are waking up to their intrinsic creative prowess. The talent in the film, music, arts, …

In March, the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship teamed up with the Lauder Institute at The Wharton School to host the 2021 Lauder Africa Symposium. The Symposium focused on understanding the world of work in a rapidly changing Africa. Over the next few weeks, we will publish reflections and insights from the conversations held …

2020-2021 was an exceptional year for the Legatum Fellowship. Even as the most well-established businesses struggled during the pandemic, starting a new venture was even riskier, if not folly. But the 2021 Legatum Fellows have grit. Not only did the cohort adapt to a remote environment that kept them from their peers and target markets, …

  In his 2009 book, “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free,” Charles P. Pierce stated that in today’s age “any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units.” He argues that today validity is determined by the decibel of the speaker not …

Digital health has the power and potential to unlock health services for any patient with access to a cell phone. With global expansion in mobile phone use and Internet connectivity, digital health—i.e., the application of information and communications technology (ICT) to health services—is playing a growing role in improving the efficiency and efficacy of health systems and …

Before the Legatum Fellowship, Caitlin Dolkart, MIT Sloan ’16, could not have predicted where she is today. Caitlin had an idea for a tech-enabled platform that connects patients, ambulances, and hospitals to provide the agile emergency response in countries without a 911 service. She said, “a company still felt super abstract and much more like …

This blog is the second in a three-part series exploring how entrepreneurs in developing markets have amplified, pivoted, and created ventures to address new healthcare challenges in light of COVID-19. Read the first post in the series here.   In the devastation and disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic — which has claimed more than two …

On January 27th, Elizabeth MacBride, Seth Levine, and Malia Lazu joined the Legatum Center for a conversation on the upcoming book from Elizabeth and Seth – The New Builders. In this discussion, we learned about the communities of entrepreneurs they discovered in writing this book, entrepreneurs who don’t fit the tech unicorn headlines but who are …