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It is the Great Sobering. The realisation of how little we understand (and pay attention to understanding) what scaling ventures beyond VC means.

iAfrica 2 months ago 2 min read Share with your network! East African venture advisory firm Kinyungu Ventures has published a white paper detailing what it says is a “misalignment” between traditional venture capital models and the African market. The white paper, entitled “Chasing Outliers: Why Context Matters for Early Stage Investing in Africa”, finds there are “multiple mismatches” between key characteristics of Silicon Valley venture capital and African markets, which influ...

WHERE IS FIBRE? Despite being the pioneers in the Nigerian property tech space, Fibre has had a silent couple of weeks. On an office Slack channel last year, Lanre even asked, “what’s happening with Fibre?” It seemed like a good story angle so I reached out to the company’s Director of Operations, Munachi Ogbonna and we had an interesting conversation. He said Fibre’s silence is intentional because they’re working on some changes to the business. Some of these changes are from constructive feedback they got from customers. He spoke frankly about some of the challenges involved in...

18 January, 2021. Nairobi, Kenya. East African venture advisory firm, Kinyungu Ventures has published a white paper Chasing Outliers: Why Context Matters for Early Stage Investing in Africa that has found that there continues to be a wide misalignment between traditional venture capital models and the African market.

January 19, 2021 One of the long-running tensions in the African startup investment ecosystem has been whether the Silicon Valley funding model, which seems to have been transferred wholesale to Africa’s very diverse and different tech hubs, is right for the continent’s tech hubs at this stage in their development. With the disproportionate influence of Silicon Valley investment on Africa’s top tech hubs in Lagos, Nairobi and Cape Town, this debate isn’t going away anytime soon. And even where there are local tech investors many have adopted the expectations of their better funded Ame...