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Francophone Africa: Why we need to decorrelate policy and language.
French-speaking African start-ups face much greater challenges in accessing international funding and establishing meaningful connections with investors outside of Francophone regions where capital is scarcely (and reluctantly) allocated to this “riskier” asset classes. Not only, these geographies are also further constrained by the limited attention and care provided by their French connection which mostly prioritizes domestic and European markets, with limited interest directed towards the continent’s start-up sector.
This Black Friday, Get Yourself a Startup on a Discount
The opportunity in VC today couldn’t have been more visible if you had engineered it yourself, especially in Emerging Markets. This is an introspection as to why.
Anas Ben Mejdoub
If You're A Black Founder, Funding Data's Not Your Friend.
A notable tendency in today's VC world is that of shifting due dilligence and investment decision making towards data driven LLMs. This would be great news were it not for an understated fact: VC data that these language models will be trained on is caught in a rut of bias and exclusivity. This article quickly dives into the obsession with prestigious university backgrounds and the lack of diversity among founders. The result? A hermetic ecosystem that favors the privileged and a vicious circle for the saviest of VCs.
