Startups: Business Angel H. Tomi Davies (TD) Gives Birth to New Book

Harry Tomi Davies (TD) is an IT Systems Analyst turned Advisor, Author, Public Speaker and Angel Investor.

Businessman, tech innovation Advisor, Extraordinary Speaker and author, Tomi Davies took to twitter to share his delight towards the release of his new book, calling it “A True Labour of Love”. His followers on the social media platform were quick to offer their congratulations, some even requesting for the creation of an audio book.

“Investment Worthy Start Up” promises to be a blueprint for young innovators, creatives, entrepreneurs to properly monetize their services by building ventures investors want to fund, just as the book announces.

 

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When it comes to building a startup or a company, If your business is worthwhile then you can expect some level of difficulty towards achieving said goals, especially during the company’s embryonic stages as it seeks to find attain product market fit and sustainability. Hence, it’s quite key that when one of Africa’s leading business Advisors and Angel Investor, who created the POEM framework – a simple model that helps Entrepreneurs, Innovation Hubs and Business Angels meet their needs of a structure for understanding and communicating about the venture as they journey together to commercial success –  releases a book on investment worthy startup, the ecosystem takes notice and delves into what would be a material filled with experience and a treasure trove of knowledge and applicable wisdom.

It is well documented that building startups and creating longetivity has its peculiar challenges and any great help along the way is valuable to the cause; this new book by Tomi Davies could well prove to be that invaluable tool for Founders.

TD as he is fondly called is the Co-Founder of the Lagos Angel Network and the African Business Angels Network (ABAN). He well has over 20 years experience in investments across different startups and sectors. For millenials growing up back then across Africa, the popular football comic, Supa Strikas, which was a must-have and had tremendous followership was another brain-child of Tomi Davies. To date, he has about 18 portfolio companies ranging from SAAS, Edtech, Fintech, Logistics, Health and much more.

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 In 2015 he became the founding President of the African Business Angels Network (ABAN), a pan-African non-profit association founded to support the development of early-stage investor networks. He also sits on the boards of the World Business Angels Forum (WBAF) and the Global Business Angels Network (GBAN).

With outstanding experience building large-scale technology-enabled systems in the US, Europe, and Africa for decades, it becomes quite clear to see why he has written his new book “Investment Worthy Start Up” and why it should be read by founders and anyone in the startup world.

Dreams Hub contributed to this article