Up to 70% of the tech start-ups that have raised seed financing in Nigeria have had to incorporate offshore holding companies in areas considered to be investor-friendly
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The pitch doesn’t matter, a good business speaks for itself, right? Wrong.
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Here are the 4 truths that no one ever tells you about raising capital.
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Hint: People over ideas.
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There are no shortcuts to success. For too many entrepreneurs, this is what the idea of a startup incubator has become.
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Dis gon be gud.
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Ask for advice.
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Doubling down
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The plan is to get local investors to put their money where their mouth is
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Wait, Tingo who?
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After a year on the investor sideI have been repeatedly asked for some sort of checklist that startups can work with to increase the chances that we’ll invest.
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Cash cash, baby!
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French media giant CANAL+, and existing investor Kinnevik AB are the participant’s in the series E round of funding.
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Ready your decks.
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The recurring mischaracterization of Impact Investing with [venture] philanthropy in Nigeria has led to difficulty in raising capital, according to a GIIN report on impact investment in Nigeria. Here are six more facts about the local impact investment landscape.
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Venturra Capital joins Naspers Group and Digital Currency Group on BitX’s list of investors.
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The financing round was led by London-based Generation Investment Management, whose focus is on social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.
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Get your pitch decks ready.
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he amount of funding, which was provided in exchange for a minority stake in the startup, was undisclosed.
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After raising $2.10 million in equity financing, Kenyan payments platform Kopo Kopo is pivoting its business away from the Lipa Na M-Pesa service it offers…
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Lagos is a different place from the one I grew up in and left more than ten years ago.
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The Nigerian furniture marketplace owned Sherif Shittu (ex-Konga exec), Showroom.ng, has secured seed funding from local investors.
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The money will be used to deepen Asoko’s research and analysis of more than a thousand privately held companies in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana, and to build out the technology behind its digital platform.
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On November 20, 2015, thirteen innovators who are using clean energy to help farmers, will receive about $13 million in funding as they join the Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development (PAEGC) initiative.
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Looks like it’s axing season in the Nigerian tech scene. Could this be reflecting the downturn of the country’s economy?
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From July to September, the African Business Angel Network organized a series of Angel Investor Boot Camps and Master classes. The events brought together close to 250 African and international angel investors. Here are the summarized Key Learnings.
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MeQasa.com, one of Ghana’s leading online real estate classifieds businesses, has secured a $500K investment from Frontier Digital Ventures, a global VC firm headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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The Lagos Angel Network just constituted its first formal Board of Directors having just been incorporated as a Nigerian company limited by guarantee.
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SlimTrader, the leading turn-key ecommerce solution provider for businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, has received a US$1 million investment from Interswitch
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More investors are becoming more confident about opportunities in African tech businesses in reaction to its high quality founders and large underserved market opportunities. EchoVC is part of that wave.
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Nigerian startup set to overhaul Africa’s $6B Printing Sector closes on six-figure seed investment.
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AfroStream came on our radar a few months ago when it launched out of Y Combinator. At the time, TechCrunch called the website the “Netflix for Africa”.
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“Haha, I’m always raising”, Tayo told me in the lobby of Maison Fahrenheit.
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Paga has just raised $13 million in series B financing. The round was led by Adlevo Capital with participation from Omidyar Network, Goodwell West Africa, Acumen Fund, and Capricorn Investment Group.
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Synergy Capital has disclosed its three invesments in Nigeria and the fintech startup was not one of them.
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It’s easy to take assumptions as facts. Do you have all your facts straight about venture capital? There’s only one way to find out.
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Smile Telecoms Holdings, a 4G LTE broadband provider with presence in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, has announced that it has raised $365million of debt and equity financing.
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Zambia-based ecommerce platform, Dot Com Zambia has received investment worth $500,000 from Zambia-based venture finance and private equity firm, Kukula Capital and eVentures Africa Fund.
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Cape Town-based end-to-end web-based transportation solutions startup, WhereIsMyTransport has completed a funding round worth $900,000.
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Wuzzuf, an Egypt-based online recruitment platform, has closed a Series A worth $1.7 million.
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