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How do investments for startups work in Latin America?
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First Data buys out Vinny Lingham’s Gyft in $50m+ deal
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We are at a very exciting stage in the African Startup space. The attention we are getting internationally is great and we are seeing…
Many fragments of a whole: unmasking Nigeria’s tech industry
“Things don’t work like that here,” someone in the audience responses as Gareth Knight, founder of popular tech conference Tech4Africa, talks about the need…