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African Startups Raising Investment to Further Drive Economic and Social Impact

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Uwana Energy provides affordable solar energy products to low-income Nigerian microentrepreneurs. Hinata Energy aims to provide affordable energy for a healthier cooking environment by offering biofuel-powered cookstoves. African aesthetics have inspired the global fashion industry and cultural icons worldwide.

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

“We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country. “What makes us very unique is we have a very diverse culture in Spain and very entrepreneurial,” adds Meiques.

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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

Andreessen Horowitz

We believe growth is progress – leading to vitality, expansion of life, increasing knowledge, higher well being. We agree with Paul Collier when he says, “Economic growth is not a cure-all, but lack of growth is a kill-all.” We believe everything good is downstream of growth. Energy Energy is life.

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America Needs More Techno-Optimism

Andreessen Horowitz

And so it sort of harnesses the creativity of, you know, thousands of years of human authors and artists and then sort of, derives, you know, new kinds of answers or new kinds of images or whatever. Tyler: So how much more green energy do we need to, in essence, fuel all of this AI, and where will it come from? Marc: Yeah. Marc: Yeah.

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