Waterhole — News & Posts
Perspectives on building and backing technology companies across Africa.
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Mobile World Congress & Emerging Markets
It was my first time attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to GSMA’s MWC website, last year saw 72.000 attendees and held over…
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Africa Seed Investment trends to watch in 2014
It’s been a busy 1st full year for Savannah fund as we end 2013 with 10 investments, the 10th is yet to be publicly…
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Top 10 Failures Expat Entrepreneurs make in East Africa
This is the first post by Malaika Judd, Mzungu Principal and Mentor A recent weekend white water rafting trip resulting in raft flips, lost paddles,…
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Startup Venture Creation vs Venture Capital Process in Africa
There is an increasing trend of organizations coming to invest in Africa as holding companies or venture funds that internally incubate ideas, turn them…
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Celebrating a new era in Africa financial services and payments innovation- Afrikoin
After 18 months and 9 investments later, I have learnt a lot about the challenges and opportunities of startups in the region. Lately, I…
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Announcing the 2nd accelerator class and Afrikoin in November
We are excited to announce our next cohort of startups for the Savannah Fund accelerator. 4 startups began working from the mLab office space…
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What does Microsoft acquiring Nokia mean for the African Mobile Market?
I remember on university graduation, my father bought me a Nokia 9210i (Communicator) it was a timely upgrade from the Psion 3C I had…
