Next Wave: She can capitalize Calendly’s Tope Awotona was made in Lagos JANUARY 31, 2021 This newsletter is a weekly in-depth analysis of tech and innovation in Africa that will serve as a post-pandemic guide. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox every Sunday at 3 pm WAT Hello, “I am the best […]
Last April, Future Africa put out a call for aspiring investors to pool funds into a co-investment community funding African innovation. By December, the firm had 160 members, reviewed over 600 funding proposals, and invested more than $1million in 16 startups. It’s an encouraging output for the Nigeria-based firm that invests between $25k and $250k […]
On the 19th of January, Future Africa, together with LocalGlobe, set out to answer this question with an event titled “A 10-year view of Entrepreneurship in Africa”.
When someone in the event’s chat room says “then stop introducing yourselves as the Amazon of Africa,” Klein responded, “We never called ourselves the Amazon of Africa. We call ourselves Jumia.”