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11th Angel Fair Africa returns to Silicon Savannah

The 11 th Angel Fair Africa (AFA) aka AFA@11 is returning to the Silicon Savannah of Nairobi, Kenya from 7th to 8th November 2024. AFA is Chanzo Capital’s annual event that brings together selected African entrepreneurs and curated investors to DO DEALS. /*! elementor – v3.20.0 – 10-04-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Dr. …

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Silicon Savannah Comes to Silicon Valley

Blogroll / By Eric Osiakwan

Today, the 23rd of May 2024, President William Ruto of Kenya, which is dubbed Silicon Savannah of Africa, is making an official state visit to the United States of America, the home of Silicon Valley. It is the first official visit by a Kenyan President in the last two decades, facilitated by Ambassador Meg Whitman who used to …

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Mergers, Acquisitions and IPOs would follow African ScaleUPs

Blogroll / By Eric Osiakwan

I conclued my last oped on the prognosis that exits would follow African scaleups and by that I meant some of the deals would be mergers, others would be acquisitions, whilst a third category may go public. The drafting and publication of this paper was delayed by the massive internet outage in West Africa¹, caused …

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Capital, Capacity and Community for ScaleUPs in Africa

Blogroll / By Eric Osiakwan

In February 2023, Universal Music Group (UMG) annouced a majority strategic investment into Mavin Global – a leading African records label based in Nigeria – the deal is subject to regulatory approval by the end of Q3 2024. By some estimates the deal is between $125M and $200M giving UMG about 80% of Mavin Global. …

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ScaleUP Africa

Blogroll / By Eric Osiakwan

The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles) — large enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, Africa. Which begs the question “how do you scale up on a continent so big, yet so fragmented into 54 individual countries that …

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AFA@10 begets Chanzo Capital@10 in 2024

Blogroll, Personal, Uncategorized / By Eric Osiakwan

The year is 2010, a young Eric Osiakwan is engaged in two experiments; getting the West Africa Backhaul Company (WABco) off the ground as an entrepreneur during the day and backing early-stage tech startups by night. Over the next three years, the former faces major headwinds whilst the latter takes off, and with it his …

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Africa’s emerging Crypto economy

Blogroll, Infrastructure, Personal / By Eric Osiakwan

On the 1st of March, South Africa based cryptocurrency exchange, VALR announced their $50M series B raise at a $240M valuation led by Pantera Capital. On that same day, Africa’s leading mobile operator MTN announced their purchase of 144 plots of virtual land in Africarare – the first African virtual reality metaverse featuring digital land. …

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Africa’s Creative Digital Economy

Blogroll, Infrastructure, Personal / By Eric Osiakwan

On 12th January 2022, Warner Music Group (WMG) announced their majority acquisition of Africori – the first major acquisition of the year in the entertainment industry. Momentum has been building toward this as WMG first invested in Africori in April 2020 at the height of the pandemic, followed in December 2020, with Africori signing a …

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Africa’s Digital Economy Welcomes Web3

Blogroll, Infrastructure, Personal / By Eric Osiakwan

The global pandemic has had the unintended consequence of speeding up Africa’s digital economy. The transition to digital services and the adoption of transformative mobile technologies have been rapid in the last two years with e-commerce being the biggest beneficiary. This digital transformation has been driven by home grown solutions – some of which are …

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