Jessica O. Matthews saw how her extended family in Nigeria struggled to get ahead, often hampered by the country’s poor infrastructure. And that inspired her to take action. “I decided I would do everything I could to level the playing field using technology.” In her closing keynote at our #PMIGlobalSummit 2022, she offered a peek into that journey, founding unchartedinfra at age 22 and later raising what was at the time the largest Series A round ever by a Black female founder. ⁠ ⁠ But her incredible success didn’t come out of nowhere. “I benefited from people who pushed me not to be afraid of things.” That group included her engineer and entrepreneur father, iqbreeder, who joined her on stage to discuss his own career path. "I had an example of someone who looked like me who didn’t take the world as it was, but created the world that they wanted,” she says.⁠ ⁠ Her father’s guidance then—and now as a board member at Uncharted—has helped her build a startup that drives positive social ...