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Entrepreneurship
Three reasons to take a new look at investing in Africa
A photo like this captures it all. Check out the photo project Middle Class in Africa. Have you had a chance to look through
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Case studies
Google Insight: A growing interest in Private Equity & Venture Capital in Africa
This morning we ran a Google Insight search for ‘Africa Private Equity’ and these were the results. Google on the website explains, ‘…
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Case studies
VC4Africa nominated for the Accenture Innovation Award
Today Accenture published the nominations for their annual Innovation Awards. VC4Africa is proud to announce that our community was selected out of hu…
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs should conduct due diligence on investors
“Due diligence” is a term used for a number of concepts involving either an investigation of a business or person prior to conducting business.
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Case studies
What can African governments do to support more entrepreneurship?
A recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) finds that in Israel venture capital is relatively easy to obtain.…
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Entrepreneurship
StorySpaces: Sharing stories to re-imagine Africa
Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in
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Entrepreneurship
2nd VC4Africa meetup being organized in Kampala
The first VC4Africa meetup was organized in Kampala, Uganda @ Katch the Sun. In true VC4Africa fashion, local members have taken it upon themselv…
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Entrepreneurship
ExtendedBITS: Building a bridge between Somaliland and Europe
Every month the VC4Africa team places a new venture in the spotlights. Now we will meet Hasan Giire, one of the founders of ExtendedBITS.
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Entrepreneurship
Technology entrepreneurs build momentum in Ethiopia
The VC4Africa team just returned from an amazing trip to Ethiopia where we presented at the Making Finance Work in Africa conference, hosted a
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Entrepreneurship
Hard to get to Africa’s SMEs, time to finance the missing middle
Getting finance to small and medium sized enterprises remains a key challenge. Getting the support to the smaller businesses on the SME spectrum is