Kenya Never Wastes a Crisis
Since producers of the annual Angel Fair Africa (AFA) announced the hosting of the 11th Angel Fair Africa (aka AFA@11) in Nairobi, Kenya on 13th June 2024, the country has been subjected to aggressive anti-tax demonstrations, that has called into question our resolve on Kenya. On 25th June, the first demonstration was about the passing …
TRIFIC SEZ, ONESPACE, and Chanzo Capital Launch COSSA
Innovative tech scaleups to receive Capital, Capacity and Community to become African multi-national corporations through the COSSA program. 2nd July 2024Nairobi, Kenya. Two Rivers International Finance and Innovation Centre SEZ (TRIFIC SEZ), ONESPACE and Chanzo Capital, a venture and growth capital firm dedicated to investing in high-tech startups and scaleups, have today launched the Chanzo ONESPACE …
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Resilient Internet Infrastructure Needed for Africa to ScaleUP
A series of submarine fiber cable cuts this year have called into question the resilience of Africa’s Internet infrastructure and its ability to serve the tech ventures as they scale up their operationsas the foundation for the scaling of tech ventures across the continent. The current generation of tech founders are building applications that sit …
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11th Angel Fair Africa returns to Silicon Savannah
The 11 th Angel Fair Africa (AFA) aka AFA@11 is returning to the Silicon Savannah of Nairobi, Kenya from 7th to 8th November 2024. AFA is Chanzo Capital’s annual event that brings together selected African entrepreneurs and curated investors to DO DEALS. /*! elementor – v3.20.0 – 10-04-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Dr. …
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Silicon Savannah Comes to Silicon Valley
Today, the 23rd of May 2024, President William Ruto of Kenya, which is dubbed Silicon Savannah of Africa, is making an official state visit to the United States of America, the home of Silicon Valley. It is the first official visit by a Kenyan President in the last two decades, facilitated by Ambassador Meg Whitman who used to …
Mergers, Acquisitions and IPOs would follow African ScaleUPs
I conclued my last oped on the prognosis that exits would follow African scaleups and by that I meant some of the deals would be mergers, others would be acquisitions, whilst a third category may go public. The drafting and publication of this paper was delayed by the massive internet outage in West Africa¹, caused …
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Capital, Capacity and Community for ScaleUPs in Africa
In February 2023, Universal Music Group (UMG) annouced a majority strategic investment into Mavin Global – a leading African records label based in Nigeria – the deal is subject to regulatory approval by the end of Q3 2024. By some estimates the deal is between $125M and $200M giving UMG about 80% of Mavin Global. …
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ScaleUP Africa
The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles) — large enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, Africa. Which begs the question “how do you scale up on a continent so big, yet so fragmented into 54 individual countries that …
AFA@10 begets Chanzo Capital@10 in 2024
The year is 2010, a young Eric Osiakwan is engaged in two experiments; getting the West Africa Backhaul Company (WABco) off the ground as an entrepreneur during the day and backing early-stage tech startups by night. Over the next three years, the former faces major headwinds whilst the latter takes off, and with it his …
Photography of Silicon Savannah
Kenya has transformed itself from a leading tourist destination to an innovation hub resulting in an entrepreneurial tech revolution and earning the name “Silicon Savannah”. I hosted leading photographer, Lou Jones in Kenya to capture incredible images that depict this transition as part of the panAFRICAproject. The project’s mission is to create a contemporary, visual …
