by Jacinta Gugu | Dec 11, 2024 | Reports
ABAN African Angel Investment Survey 2024 As Africa’s startup ecosystem faces a decline in funding, angel investors are stepping in to provide crucial capital for early-stage companies. Learn more about their impact and strategies in the 2024 ABAN Investment Report:...
by Jacinta Gugu | Nov 21, 2024 | case-studies
Ingressive Capital and Blue Haven Initiative: Insider-Outsiders for Paystack and Blue Haven Initiative: Insider-outsiders for Paystack. When the Nigerian fintech Paystack announced in October 2020 that they had been acquired by the Silicon Valley-based payments...
by Jacinta Gugu | Nov 24, 2023 | case-studies
Rising Tide Africa: Investing with a gender lens According to a 2022 analysis from Africa: The Big Deal, startups in Africa founded by a single woman or an all-women team had raised 56 times less equity funding than those founded by a single man or an all-men team....
by Jacinta Gugu | May 2, 2023 | legal-guides
Legal Syndication Primer South Africa This short guide was developed as a resource for a new supplementary AAA module, the AAA ActiveAngel Series Syndication Module. This module builds on the AAA foundational online course and aims toequip programme alumni with the...
by Jacinta Gugu | Nov 20, 2021 | case-studies
SweepSouth and Newtown Partners: From entrepreneurs to angel investors It’s October 2014. SweepSouth has just won the first ever StartupSA pitch competition hosted by SiMODiSA, an association created to promote South African entrepreneurs “It’s not just about ‘Are you...