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COVID-19 Innovation Diaries: How Startup Ecosystems are mobilizing against the coronavirus

April 7, 2020

CK Japheth is building The Innovation Village; Uganda’s launchpad for leading Innovators and entrepreneurs co-creating the future through the smart application of technology to unravel challenges and create unique solutions.…

The state of emerging market VC ecosystems with Alex Lazarow

March 31, 2020

Alexandre (Alex) Lazarow has spent his career working at the intersection of investing, innovation, and economic development in the private, public, and social sectors. He is a venture capitalist with…

How we can increase cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets with Yellowcard’s Chris Maurice

March 24, 2020

Chris Maurice is the CEO and co-founder of Yellow Card Financial. Chris started his freelance writing and SEO consulting career in high school, writing for more than 200 publications (including…

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Part 2 – State of the Ecosystem – North Africa, Middle East, & Sub-Saharan Africa with Andile Masuku

March 17, 2020

Andile Masuku is a Zimbabwean broadcaster and entrepreneur based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the executive producer of African Tech Roundup, much of his time is spent covering Africa’s emerging…

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Part 1 – State of the Ecosystem – North Africa, Middle East, & Sub-Saharan Africa with Andile Masuku

March 10, 2020

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Creating a digital policy framework to cultivate frontier market startup economies

March 3, 2020

Samia Melhem is a Lead Policy Officer in the World Bank’s Transport and ICT Global Practice. She chairs the Digital Development Community of Practice and leads Global ICT’s Transformation practice,…

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China

China’s growing influence in the global startup ecosystem with Eric Olander

February 25, 2020

Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Africa Project (CAP), an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China’s engagement in Africa. Eric is also the…

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China

“Is 2020 the year of M&A for Nigerian Fintech?” with Odun Eweniyi

February 18, 2020

Odunayo Eweniyi is Cofounder and COO of PiggyVest. She previously cofounded pushcv.com, one of the largest job sites in Africa with the largest database of prescreened candidates. In 2019 she…

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China

The Africa-India Digital Transformation Parallels

February 11, 2020

Aubrey Hruby is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. She is also co-founder of Insider and the Africa Expert Network (AXN), Co-host of the NewThink Podcast and…

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Building the Middle East’s number 1 startup with Joy Ajlouny

November 30, 2018

Joy Ajlouny co-founded Fetchr in 2015 , a Silicon Valley-backed tech company that was created to tackle the Middle East’s “no address” issue, which has been long been a hindrance…