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Where are venture-size returns in Africa?
Fintech, Commerce and the future of the VC model in the continent
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Gabon's success story & the "joking kinship"
The invisible power of industrial platforms & wht it's so funny to be African ❤️
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The Almanack of DFS Lab
6 theoretical primitives to make sense of VC investing in Africa
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Who is fixing the finance gap?
How data & technology are ushering a new era of business financing, from the lessons of M-Kopa to the success of Untapped Global
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How many Africas exist? 💰
What Machine Learning can tell us about the uneven advancement of financial inclusion in the continent 🌍
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Who is building Africa's internet infrastructure?
Mobile phones, cell towers, subsea cables, data centres and the web of physical infrastructure powering the continent's digital economy
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If West Africa was a country, would it beat India? 🥊
11 indicators to assess the size of the digital opportunity in Africa's most dynamic economies
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