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 claire@viridian.africa | Oct 31, 2024 | case-studies, Uncategorized
Paystack and Olumide Soyombo: Achieving Lift-off for Nigerian Tech “PAYMENTS GIANT STRIPE HAS BOUGHT NIGERIAN PAYMENTS STARTUP PAYSTACK FOR AFRICAN EXPANSION” – QUARTZ AFRICA On 15 October 2020, the headlines emblazoned across every major tech news platform carried...
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 claire@viridian.africa | Nov 24, 2023 | case-studies
NaiBAN: Enriching the ecosystem in Silicon Savannah Kenya is the second biggest destination for investor capital on the African continent and yet its ecosystem of local early-stage investors remains small. Nairobi Business Angel Network (NaiBAN) wants to change that....
by claire@viridian.africa | Nov 23, 2023 | case-studies
Jozi Angels: BACKING FOUNDERS FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE South Africa has the most established startup ecosystem and one of the largest communities of local investors on the continent. Jozi Angels is one of the angel networks building and maintaining that community. Founded...
by claire@viridian.africa | Nov 23, 2021 | case-studies
Twiga and Joy Muballe: Taking a leap for agritech in Kenya Twiga Foods was an early-stage startup developing a last-mile fresh produce delivery service for small, informal retailers in Kenyan cities. For Twiga; after less than a year in operation, they were looking to...
