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Entrepreneurship8 tips for building investor traction for your startup
Congratulations, your venture has been published to VC4Africa! So now what? To be honest the process has just started:) The road to funding is
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Case studiesHelping you invest in Africa’s top startups, deal sourcing to deal closing with VC4Africa
VC4Africa is a platform for African venture finance. We now have 27,500 members from 159 countries and connect thousands of promising startups from ac…
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EntrepreneurshipInvesting in Kenya’s mobile disruptors, meet the Safaricom Spark Venture Fund
Safaricom in November 2014 launched a venture fund that invest in late seed to early growth stage support start-ups that use mobile technology as
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Entrepreneurship
To a new year full of African success stories! The VC4Africa community in 2013 & the year ahead
What started as a conversation between like-minded professionals continues to grow as a thriving community dedicated to African venture finance. VC4Af…
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Entrepreneurship
“Only way to know more about this space is to actually do deals” – Pule Taukobong, founder of the Africa Angels Network
Africa Angels Network has recently joined the VC4Africa investor network. VC4Africa followed up with Pule Taukobong, the founder of the initiative (pr…
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Case studies
Building an ecosystem for Angel investing in Africa
From our extensive conversations with entrepreneurs and investors, and supported again by our own research polls with the VC4Africa community, we know…
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Case studies
DEMO and VC4Africa announce inaugural DEMO Africa, Oct 24-26, 2012
DEMO Africa is the launchpad for emerging technology and trends in Africa and is scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya from 24-26 October
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Case studies
Investor network comes together to launch African ventures
Africa is full of opportunities. At the same time, investing successfully is never easy. At VC4Africa we work to lower barriers to entry and
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Entrepreneurship
First Venture Capital firm in Uganda investing in start-up & early-stage companies
Mara Launchpad is an entrepreneurship centre/ accelerator in Kampala, Uganda. It exists to provide young businesses in Kampala a professional office s…