"It wasn't just an overnight thing. Seeds were planted."

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Maya Horgan Famodu is the founder of Ingressive Capital, the venture capital fund currently raising $50 million to invest in early-stage African start-ups. The companies Ingressive has backed include the Nigerian fintech leader Paystack; it's now valued at more than USD 1 billion. She has advised tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and the iconic accelerator Y Combinator. But she did all that without having a rich mummy and daddy - she grew up in a trailer park in Minnesota. She only met her father - who is a Nigerian pastor when she was in her twenties looking to build a business in Nigeria. Maya is one of a new generation of African Americans who see their mixed background as a superpower and expertly straddle what it means to be both American and Nigerian.