In this raw and honest interview, Serisha Barrat shares her incredible journey from sleeping on blow-up mattresses and selling her car to building Lawyered Up, a legal tech platform democratizing access to legal services across Africa.

She opens up about the brutal realities of female entrepreneurship, the loneliness of building a startup, surviving complete business failure, and how she's now raising $1 million while operating in Kenya, Botswana, Nigeria, and South Africa with a 70% female team.

Topics covered in this interview:

The real cost of entrepreneurship/ personal sacrifices and failures
Building AI legal technology for African markets
Fundraising strategies that actually work in Africa
The loneliness epidemic among entrepreneurs
How AI is changing the legal profession
Creating sustainable business models

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From Sleeping on Air Mattresses to Raising $1M: Female Tech Founder's Raw Journey