Matthew Mukalere - Mukalere Capital Group (MCG), ex BlackRock

Diaspora is your first investor

September 30, 2026, 23:23 am "Vremena" editorial office

"Why I gave up a £100.000+ a year 'tech' career in London for a 'boring' business in Africa" - Matthew Mukalere, Mukalere Capital Group (MCG), to SEE UP on how he traded a London 'tech' salary for unfinished buildings in Uganda - and why diaspora capital should invest in 'boring' assets, not just pitch decks

Read the Time to See Up Supplement, Issue 3, in PDF. Time to See Up TIME TO SEE UP is a joint column of the weekly "Vreme" and the SEE UP accelerator, for which 15 author's texts for the readers of our magazine will be written by the founders and directors of leading global and regional companies in the field of innovation, from artificial intelligence and biotechnology to [...]

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