Mike Bondo

CEO & Co-founder, Go Global

Johannesburg, South Africa
Cohort: Ashoka Bootcamp, Nairobi, 2019

Mike Bondo is the founder of Go Global a social impact investment platform dedicated to supporting farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, mostly the youth and women to connect them to received capital investments. He says he stumbled onto the idea of Go Global while he was on a trip pitching for another project in 2017, and he has never looked back. Today Go Global operates in the DRC and Togo and soon Zambia. Their mission is to uplift previously disadvantaged communities and to promote entrepreneurship in order to combat poverty through investment and sustainable job creation. Prior to that Mike co-founded Mcshop.cd, an eCommerce start-up based in DRC helping small business to sell online. Mike is a fellow entrepreneur and alumni of the Tony Elumelu entrepreneurship program class 2017. He holds a bachelor’s in business management from Damelin college and a Bachelor of commerce honors in strategic management from the Johannesburg school of business. In 2019 he was recognized by The Young Independents (TYI) among the Top 100 inspiring and aspiring young leaders from across sub-Saharan Africa. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and believes the world is shaped by dreamers and the action takers.