2012 startups in review: funding, competition winners and acquisitions

Despite a struggling global economy and a notable downturn in Series A funding in the US, 2012 left a veritable smorgasbord of startup deals, competitions and acquisitions in its wake.

With our birds-eye view of the activity in emerging markets, especially sub-Saharan Africa, we wrote about many of this year’s deals. We covered startup competitions and talked to their finalists and we watched with glee as startups successfully completed mega government deals and got snapped up by bigger fish.

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