Mina Shahid

Mina Shahid is a two-time founder operating across Africa, and a descendant of small business owners from Cairo. His work is rooted in a long-standing commitment to expanding economic opportunity by enabling small business owners to invest in their families, communities, and countries.

Since 2008, Mina has lived and worked across Zambia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and Colombia building and scaling ventures that serve underserved communities. He is the Founder and CEO of Numida, a fast-growing fintech building digital financial products to enable 1 million African small business owners to achieve their dreams. Since 2021 Numida has provided over $140M USD in unsecured working capital financing to more than 100,000 financially excluded and semi-formal MSMEs across Uganda, Kenya, and recently, Rwanda. In 2025 Numida was ranked the 17th fastest growing company in Africa by the Financial Times.

Previously, Mina was an Acumen Global Fellow and served as Interim COO at SiembraViva, a food-tech social enterprise based in Colombia. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Kulemela Investments, an investment vehicle providing working capital debt to agribusinesses in Ghana.

Mina is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Harambean, and an Africa's Business Heroes Finalist. He holds an engineering degree from the University of Toronto.