I’m so excited to announce our acquisition of Nobel Financial, and the acquisition of 16(!) Money Transfer Licences in the US!
This is an exciting day for my team and I 🎉
We are excited to announce the first close of our Community Fund [Fund II] with the continuous focus on backing the very best early-stage African startups.
https://t.co/Al2IVlPcUZ
Sendsprint is a technology solution to the African remittance problem.
We’re providing more options to expand how the African diaspora maintains our relationship with wherever is home.
Learn more - https://t.co/hbLZvtualg
I am incredibly excited to share Sendsprint with the world today.
As an African in the diaspora, I’m intimately familiar with the challenges of maintaining relationships with loved ones across oceans, and the specificity of the nuances around giving gifts of money.
I’m incredibly proud of the work that @WendyA__ continues to do, I’m so glad to have written her profile for this.
She’s in good company with the women on this list.
You can read the profiles their colleagues, mentors & bosses wrote for them here:
🔗: https://t.co/HILrMGm4tZ
We hope they will inspire even more people, particularly women, to become world-class tech operators and founders.
There’s certainly enough space!
As we near the end of a record year for African VC, I took some time to refine and update our thesis, and breakdown where and why we're looking to invest.
If you think digital commerce is having a moment in Africa, you ain't seen nothing yet.
https://t.co/YtGJjFvO2y
Square's Cash App apparently is testing a lending product that enables users to borrow $20-200.
So --- Borrowing 20 bucks from an app doesn't sound like a big deal?
It does.
Hint: The $27 billion payday lending market.
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