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Afridigest Week in Review: [Free read] What's the Mara?

Afridigest Week in Review: [Free read] What's the Mara?

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Afridigest is your intelligent guide to tech in Africa. The Afridigest Week in Review helps you stay in the know about what happened in Africa Tech last week.
📌 Welcome to the second half of the year, friends. To bring it in in style, today’s edition is free to read for all subscribers.

ICYMI, since the last Week in Review, we published a startup spotlight on Lipaworld and the H1 2024 update to our Africa Fintech Transactions Database.

On to the highlights of the week:
• Six financing transactions totaling over $30M in disclosed funding were announced.

• In brief: Poverty is concentrating in sub-Saharan Africa. An investor’s perspective of what went wrong at Copia Global. A look at the latest reporting on now-defunct African crypto firm Mara.
• Organizations appearing in today’s Week in Review: PAIX, Peleza, Prospa, Go Big Partners, Apis Partners, Janngo Capital, Chanzo Capital, Copia Global, Consize, & more.
• Executives appearing: Safaricom’s Peter Ndegwa, BasiGo’s Jit Bhattacharya, Flou…

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