Question 1

Great concept to provide support to enable African entrepreneurs and farmers. Could you clarify the terms - if you are raising $500k at that valuation does that mean wefunder investors will hold half the equity in the company?

Accepted Answer

Normally, your interpretation would be correct. At the moment we're "testing the waters" to gather the interest of this investment opportunity. Once we hit the goal we'll do a "first close" with the final terms. Those should be $1/share of preferred equity, and the pre-money should be lower than the reported $500,000.

Question 2

The pre-money valuation is $500k but you already raised $1.8m according to articles published. Can you explain that?

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Global businesses seem simple on the surface but are often complicated internally. For example, when the press talks about Coca-Cola, we generally think of the corporation based in Atlanta. What we ignore are the hundreds of other companies fully and partially owned by Coca-Cola which are incorporated in hundreds of other countries. Its the sum total of those companies which together are Coca Cola. Africa Eats Ltd. has raised over $2 million. That is the investing arm of Africa Eats. This cro...

Question 3

1) I love the goal and want to support the mission, but frankly speaking, there’s not enough meat on the bone here to help me understand exactly what you do and how you do it. Ergo, I had to do outside research to get a better handle on the company. (For example, it turns out ...

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For (1), see the answer to the oldest question. Africa Eats Ltd. is indeed an investment holding company. That corporation is the investment arm of the multi-national group of companies that comprises Africa Eats as a whole. As a whole, the mission is simple: to lessen hunger and poverty by supporting the efforts of homegrown, for-profit African companies that are building the food/ag supply chain. As explained in the pitch deck, Africa Eats does that with a series of services offered to our ...

Question 4

I'm trying to get a better understanding of the corporate structure. It sounds like Africa Eats Ltd. is the investment arm/holding company that owns equity in the portfolio companies. However, investors are not getting a piece of that entity. Instead - as you state in response...

Accepted Answer

We wish this were simpler too, but we've set up this corporate structure in as simple of a manner as we could to keep in compliance with both U.S. and Mauritius regulations. Investors from Wefunder are buying preferred shares in Africa Eats SPC, a Washington State social purpose corporation that operates some of the services listed in the pitch deck, while Africa Eats Ltd. is a Mauritius limited liability company that invests into the portfolio companies and which operates the other services....

Question 5

So doing the math on your aggregate revenues and profits chart you made around 2.86M revenue and 515k profit in USD in 2020? Also did you meet revenue and profit estimates for 2021?

Accepted Answer

Note that the chart in question is the aggregate revenues and profits of the portfolio companies. We are still gathering the 2021 actuals from the companies. Typically that takes 45 days after the end of the year. So far, most companies are exceeding our estimates and the total should thus meet or exceed the prediction made a year ago.

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