• Freda Isingoma
• Investment Banking Professional
• KIISA

Freda Isingoma is an investment banking professional and entrepreneur who has worked in multinational and leading investment institutions in the UK, US and South Africa. Freda is the Lead Fund Manager of the Octopus AIM VCTs in an award-winning team specialising in investment in UK listed small companies. Octopus Investments is the UK’s largest Venture Capital firm and one of the most active in Europe.

In 2009, she launched Eyecandy Brows, a specialist brow bar concept which grew to over 20 branches across South Africa, and in 2018 she founded KIISA a provider of innovative investment and impact solutions that drive the growth, visibility, knowledge, and sustainability of the African and Diaspora art ecosystem. Freda has been collecting art from Africa and the Diaspora for over 20 years and founded the KIISA Collector Series which is in its 6^th Edition.

Freda is a member of the AUC Art History & Curatorial Studies External Advisory Group, and more recently was appointed as a Board Trustee of the Yinka Shonibare Foundation. She has spoken on various international platforms on art as an investment and the development of the African & Diaspora art ecosystem. This includes Harvard University, Stanford University, African Union Investment & Trade Forum, and Spelman College as a Distinguished Guest Lecturer in 2023.

More recently, Freda joined an award-winning team at Octopus Investments as a Fund Manager specialising in investment in UK listed small companies, primarily managing the Octopus AIM Venture Capital Trusts. Octopus Investments is the UK’s largest Venture Capital firm and one of the most active in Europe.