Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca is a finance and investment professional with vast experience in strategy development and execution, project management, operational finance, corporate governance and reporting, Startup funding, and social innovation. She began her career with Venture Garden Group, a PE-backed $80M fintech holding company working primarily with the different subsidiaries in addressing key challenges in the aviation, power, health, finance, education, and social sectors.

She is currently an Investment and Advisory Manager with Chrysalis Co which houses The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused tech fund and The Chrysalis Advisors, a financial and investment advisory firm where she works with several startups across Africa and other emerging markets. Her work is to ultimately set them on the right trajectory for sustainable growth and scale by facilitating fundraises and acquisitions, designing expansion strategies, and providing other strategic advisory services. Also passionate about female empowerment, she once led the Garden Women’s Network – a network of over fifty female professionals committed to the engagement, recruitment, and retention of women in tech. In 2018, she co-facilitated the first female founder-focused tech accelerator in Nigeria; launched in partnership with Google Launchpad, the accelerator was created to close the investment funding gap for women-led and gender-balanced startups.