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

TechCrunch

He makes a bold statement by saying that under the current CBN governor’s administration, the Central Bank has shown a consistent regulatory framework that has allowed fintechs like Flutterwave to thrive. Fawry was launched in 2007, but didn’t become a billion-dollar company until 2020, a year after going public.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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Daily Crunch: Raise now, pay later: $800M funding round slashes Klarna’s valuation by 85%

TechCrunch

They aren’t really old enough to remember the absolute horror of watching stocks and investments tank during the 2007–2010 economic downturn, but 2022’s environment is giving them a taste of that. billion, Paul writes. Everybody wants you : And by “you,” we mean Gen Z.

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SightCall raises $42M for its AR-based visual assistance platform

TechCrunch

Co-founded in 2007 by Cottereau and Antoine Vervoort (currently SVP of product and engineering), the two are long-time telecoms industry vets who had both worked on the technical side of building next-generation networks.

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Acceptance and The Narrative Fallacy in the Times of COVID-19

Ian Hathaway

In the upcoming book The Startup Community Way , my co-author Brad Feld and I utilize the framework of complex adaptive systems to explain the behavior of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Nassim Nicholas Taleb also addresses this in his 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. This is where the digital media puck is going.

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