Director, Strategic Investments and Partnerships
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Riki Yamauchi invests or supports investments through Novastar Ventures's published strategy: Back African businesses that expand access to basic goods and services while advancing inclusive and environmentally sustainable prosperity.
Entrepreneurs using scalable business models to meet essential needs for mass African markets and create measurable social and environmental value.
Companies without meaningful African impact, inclusive-market reach or scalable economics are less aligned with the firm's credo.
Quantify the unmet need, affordability, distribution, unit economics, scale and measurable social and environmental outcomes.
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Riki Yamauchi is a current Director, Strategic Investments and Partnerships at Novastar Ventures, according to the firm's official roster. The record preserves the official role and does not infer unsupported employment history.