Raise Africa

Overview

Raise is a place for startups to manage equity, seed rounds, and legal compliance. My work sat on the frontend: making the product coherent enough to use, and keeping the implementation consistent enough to change.

The problem

Startup teams needed a clearer way to track equity, fundraising, and compliance work without assembling a pile of disconnected tools.

Approach

I worked on the product UI in React, with reusable components and shared state so common workflows did not have to be rebuilt for every screen.

Implementation

The frontend used React, JavaScript, Styled Components, and Firebase. Internal tools included UI Bakery where it reduced cycle time for operational views.

Results

The work focused on an analytics view for progress over time and on making the component layer consistent enough that reviews and new screens were cheaper.

What I learned

Shared state and a small design system matter more than any single dashboard widget. Code review on a small team is part of the product, not a ceremony around it.

What I would do differently

I would separate product analytics more clearly from operational admin views, and I would be stricter about which surfaces deserved custom UI versus an internal tool.