The moral arc of creative disruption bends towards demand and supply, in the common good. With the right incentives, resources incline towards people who can capitalize on opportunities. Iterate this process enough and you create structures that reproduce growth and economic development. That’s a good theory of how prosperity happens, but it assumes that society […]

Since 2014, the number of deals in the African venture capital landscape has been on the rise. Between 2014 and 2019, the number of VC deals topped 613, according to the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA). In 2019 alone, 139 deals were recorded. In the heyday of African VC activity, the most […]

Nigerian venture capital firm Ingressive Capital has doubled the size of its investment fund, re-affirming a mandate to back pre-seed and seed-stage African tech startups with potential for high growth. The firm reached the new close by welcoming new limited partners like Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), US-based Plexo Capital and Platform Capital, a Nigerian […]

Briter Bridges has launched a data platform ‘Briter Intelligence’ as a resource for visual, granular and current data on startup activities in African tech. The research consultancy has been building a reputation for creating broad-based maps on African startups since October 2018. Briter’s sector maps and periodic reports on startup funding provide a measure of […]