“Do you know Christine Namara?” Godfrey Mutabazi, the founder of Karaa, an e-mobility startup in Uganda, asked me around 2022. “No, I don’t. Why do you ask?” I replied. “She wrote the investment memo of my startup as part of Dream VC!” Mutabazi explained. 

But this was the first time I had heard about Namara. I had been in venture capital for about two years and had built a str