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Google’s Africa Investment Fund behind Moniepoint, Africa’s Fastest-Growing Fintech

American Entrepreneurship

Africa’s fastest-growing fintech, successfully raised US$110 million in equity financing, supporting its all-in-one financial ecosystem. Since its launch in 2019 over 10 million businesses and individuals have been served with access to seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools. Moniepoint Inc.,

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas. Topics that are important have really emerged from past events.

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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

Back in 2019, I was running one of the most recognized travel companies in Chile. In 2019, while working full-time and raising a young child, my husband and I co-founded our company. I had to teach myself business strategy, product development, and finance, all while bootstrapping my first fintech company. We had 50 employees.

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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Can you expand on where you got your passion for personal finance management? This entire journey helped me to uncover my love for personal finance and I wanted to help others do the same. Additionally, I was awarded a travel grant in 2019 to attend a major financial conference in the United States.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $1.5

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Splice gets $55 million for its software bringing beats from bedrooms to bandstands

TechCrunch

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Steve Martocci and his team at Splice.”.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

TechCrunch

Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. The company has raised a number of private rounds, including a $126 million deal in August of 2019 that valued the company at $454.3 from 2019 to 2020.