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Nov 12, 2021

Open Source: Our Startup Mental Health Policy at Afrocenchix

The topic of mental health is ubiquitous these days, but it’s still frustratingly taboo. As a founder of a fast growing seed stage start up, and someone in therapy for cPTSD, it’s a topic close to my heart. I was going to write an article on what we’re learning about…

Mental Health

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Open Source: Our Startup Mental Health Policy at Afrocenchix
Open Source: Our Startup Mental Health Policy at Afrocenchix
Mental Health

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Jul 15, 2021

10 Tips For Raising Investment (How Afrocenchix Secured Google Funding in $1.2m Seed Round)

Scaling a startup is tough. It’s been a great year for Afrocenchix, but an incredibly difficult one. Raising a seed round was certainly a case of succeeding against the odds. I’m writing this to share the tips that helped us do it. When we opened the round we’d never have…

Fundraising

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10 Tips For Raising Investment (How Afrocenchix Secured Google Funding in $1.2m Seed Round)
10 Tips For Raising Investment (How Afrocenchix Secured Google Funding in $1.2m Seed Round)
Fundraising

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Dec 15, 2020

7 Lessons From Scaling (How We Grew Afrocenchix to 7 Figures & What We Learnt Along The Way)

A year and a half ago I shared the story of our pre-seed raise of over $650k. I did this to demystify fundraising. The problem is, it was a little sensational. Most investment rounds won’t include pitching to celebrity judges including Diddy, Ashton Kutcher and Gary Vee.

Startup

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7 Lessons From Scaling (How We Grew Afrocenchix to 6 Figures & What We Learnt Along The Way)
7 Lessons From Scaling (How We Grew Afrocenchix to 6 Figures & What We Learnt Along The Way)
Startup

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Nov 18, 2020

5 Ways to Get More Press & Generate Positive PR for Your Startup

We’ve been asked for our publicist’s details quite often this year. Afrocenchix has featured in dozens of publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, iNews, The Independent & Vogue so other founders have very reasonably asked for the hook up. The truth is we don’t have a publicist, and we’ve never…

Startup

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5 Ways to Get More Press & Generate Positive PR for Your Startup
5 Ways to Get More Press & Generate Positive PR for Your Startup
Startup

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Oct 5, 2020

The Startup OKR Guide

Seven Lessons from a year of using OKRs to drive results at Afrocenchix — What does every startup want? A focused, motivated team that consistently succeeds in reaching objectives. A simple aim. So why is achieving that so hard? Well, whilst research has made clear that commitment to a specific, ambitious goal improves team performance and engagement, it can be hard to determine exactly…

Okr

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The Startup OKR Guide
The Startup OKR Guide
Okr

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May 20, 2020

Navigating Covid-19 — Surviving & Adapting as a Small Business

Afrocenchix was born out of recession. In 2008, when the last economic crisis occurred, Joycelyn and I met, then started mixing products in our university kitchen soon after. We registered as a business in 2010, simply to collect the prize for the Ethical & Sustainable Business Innovation Competition we’d won…

Startup Lessons

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Navigating Covid-19 — Surviving & Adapting as a Small Business
Navigating Covid-19 — Surviving & Adapting as a Small Business
Startup Lessons

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Apr 22, 2020

21 Time Optimisation Lessons I Learned The Hard Way

People often ask me how I get so much done. …

Time Management

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21 Time Optimisation Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
21 Time Optimisation Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
Time Management

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Jun 21, 2019

How Afrocenchix Oversubscribed on Pre-Seed Investment Round and Raised Over $650,000

Every year under 0.2% of business funding goes to Black women so last year when Joycelyn and I set out to raise £360k ($450k) whilst I had a very visible baby bump, we knew we’d have a serious fight on our hands… At this years London Tech Week I was…

Startup

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How Afrocenchix Oversubscribed on Seed Investment Round and Raised Over $650,000
How Afrocenchix Oversubscribed on Seed Investment Round and Raised Over $650,000
Startup

13 min read

Rachael Twumasi-Corson

Rachael Twumasi-Corson

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Disciple of Jesus. Mum of 2. Afrocenchix Co-Founder & CEO. Into ethics, sci-fi, food, tech & books.

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