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African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B

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New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. .

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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

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CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint. With the new capital, that number could triple over the next several years.