The ecosystem that African ingenuity built | Marsha Wulff | TEDxSarasota

Investor and entrepreneur Marsha Wulff shares lessons from decades spent helping build transformative companies across Africa and beyond. In this talk, she explores how innovation ecosystems, collaborative leadership, and long-term thinking can unlock extraordinary economic and human potential. #TEDxSarasota Marsha Wulff is an American impact investor who focuses on tech-driven innovations. She has helped build seven multi-billion-dollar companies - three American-led and four African-led - across multiple sectors and continents. Having lived and worked on six continents, she brings a deeply global perspective shaped by decades of building businesses and mentoring leaders worldwide. Her life experiences - spanning scarcity and abundance, mobility and physical limitation - have informed her belief in collaborative leadership, passionate teams, and investment strategies that balance profit with long-term impact. Since the late 1990s, Marsha and her team have pioneered seed stage venture capital in Africa to empower large-scale economic transformation. They are part of an evolving investor ecosystem that supports the next generation of aspiring founders. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx