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Everyone is asking harder questions

It is the Great Sobering. The realisation of how little we understand (and pay attention to understanding) what scaling ventures beyond VC means. ....

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Kinyungu Ventures Research calls for Changes to Cut-and-paste VC Strategy In Africa

18 January, 2021. Nairobi, Kenya. East African venture advisory firm, Kinyungu Ventures has published a white paper Chasing Outliers: Why Context Matters for Early Stage Investing in Africa that has found that there continues to be a wide misalignment between traditional venture capital models and the African market. ....

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Silicon Valley-style investment doesn't work for African startups — Quartz Africa

January 19, 2021
One of the long-running tensions in the African startup investment ecosystem has been whether the Silicon Valley funding model, which seems to have been transferred wholesale to Africa’s very diverse and different tech hubs, is right for the continent’s tech hubs at this stage in their development.
With the disproportionate influence of Silicon Valley investment on Africa’s top tech hubs in Lagos, Nairobi and Cape Town, this debate isn’t going away anytime soon. And even where there are local tech investors many have adopted the expectations of their better funded American counterparts.
A new white paper, ....

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Silicon Valley-style investment doesn't work for African startups

African startup investment needs "a more measured perspective that significant, profitable opportunities exist despite, and arguably because, of the challenges." ....

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