#2 | The Agile Growth Entrepreneur Newsletter
This week, we feature stories from Techcabal, Forbes Africa, Disrupt Africa, Better Work Ventures, Startup Studio Insider + news from MFS Africa, Launch Africa, Pan African VC Fund, ConvrtX & more.
Welcome to this week's Agile Growth Entrepreneur Newsletter.
From The Agile Parallel Entrepreneur
This week I explore what is “ISO 20022 And The Future of Crypto.” I first became interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies in 2017 when I explored alternate methods to raise funding for my hardware startup in Nigeria. If you ask a founder of a hardware startup in Africa how difficult it is to develop a hardware startup on a scale of 1 to 10, they would most likely say it's a 12.
That was my experience in 2017 with my hardware startup, Honey Flow Africa, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. We created a custom IoT device with patent-pending technology that provides an easier and gentler approach to enhancing beekeeping operations by integrating the power of IoT, A.I., and Big Data into the African beekeeping process to increase honey output processing and predictability.
Africa Startup Stories
📝 From Wall Street to selling sugar in Dakar: How Tijan Watt built a pan-African VC - Techcabal
📝Driving Power: E-Bikes In Africa’s Food Delivery Industry - Forbes Africa
📝 How Nigeria’s Losode is connecting fashion businesses with consumers - Disrupt Africa
📝 Trading stocks on the blockchain (Podcast) - Techpoint Africa
📝 Even after a $10,000 loss, this crypto trader found a gem in the crypto space, and she’s never letting go - Techpoint Africa
📝 How Two Africans Overcame Bias To Build A Startup Worth Billions _ Forbes Africa
Africa Startup News
MFS Africa Raises Another $100 Million for Its Series C Round
Top 5 Agritech startups in Nigeria by funds raised in 2021/2022
Launch Africa, the VC Firm That Has Backed Over 100 Startups, Closes First Fund At $36.3m
Egyptian digital assistant startup DXwand raises $1m pre-Series A funding
Kenya’s Jumba bags $1M to help operators of hardware stores restock seamlessly
Venture Studio Stories
📝 Why a Startup Studio? - Better Work Ventures
📝 Why Are Startup Studios Growing Fast? - Startup Studio Insider
📝 Launch, Rinse And Repeat: How Venture Builders Are Reshaping NFTs - Forbes
Venture Studio News
CULT Food ScieJoins Newlab in Launching Agriculture Venture Studio
Sky Ocean Ventures Backs Founders Factory’s £100m Planet Fund
Mark Two Venture Studio Spins out Portfolio Company: Astound
Web3 Venture Studio, SuperLayer, Incubates and Launches Gambit
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