How This Female Founder Secured An Unexpected Seed Round
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From Student Housing Startup to Africa’s Largest Platform with DigsConnect's Alexandria Procter
This week, I sit down with Alexandria Proctor who shares her journey of building Africa's largest housing platform, securing a surprising seed round, and transitioning from CEO to CTO, to authoring a book.
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ABOUT ALEXANDRIA PROCTER
Alexandria Procter, founder of DigsConnect, Africa's largest student housing marketplace, which she launched at age 24 while studying at the University of Cape Town. From building the initial MVP using Python and JavaScript, she's grown the platform to connect over 150,000 landlords and tenants across 400 cities worldwide, listing more than 1.3 million beds and generating tens of millions in lease value.
Beyond entrepreneurship, she's made significant impacts in various spheres - from being appointed by President Ramaphosa as the youngest director of the National Youth Development Agency, where she successfully led the One Million for Democracy initiative, to founding House of Pharos, an SDG-aligned venture capital fund. Her achievements include becoming a published author with her national bestseller "Upstart" (2024), and establishing The Aviation Club, where she writes about tech, startups, and development economics.
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