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Meet the founder who came to Nigeria by chance, saw tomatoes going to waste, and raised over $18 million to fix it

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Meet the founder who came to Nigeria by chance, saw tomatoes going to waste, and raised over $18 million to fix it
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Mira Mehta left a profitable career in finance in the U.S. and moved to Nigeria—not with plans to build a company, but in search of something more meaningful. What she found instead were miles of rotting tomatoes in the sun. Starting with a $25,000 prize, she turned that observation into a business, raising over $18 million to build a tomato processing plant in the country.



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