1/ Here’s what happened last week in Africa& #39;s startup ecosystem [Week 35 2020]

• Remittance riches

• AI, Crypto, & other deals

• Videos & Podcast appearances from many of your faves

• Reads & Tweets of the Week, News & more

Let& #39;s get started https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎬" title="Filmklappe" aria-label="Emoji: Filmklappe"> https://afridigest.substack.com/p/afridigest-week-in-review-remittance">https://afridigest.substack.com/p/afridig...
2/ Video of the Week - https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">

@iamtomiwa moderated a great session with @DoctorBasta about the African venture landscape & how deals get done

• Very insightful & highly recommended

• Thanks to @TechCabal for (finally) releasing it https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3eRVngGBLg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
3/ Deal of the Week

@WorldRemit acquired @sendwaveapp for a reported $500M

• WR deepens its African remittance presence as COVID accelerates the shift to digital

• Sendwave will continue to operate independently but once the deal is done, its founders will move on https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃" title="Person running" aria-label="Emoji: Person running">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💨" title="Staubwolke" aria-label="Emoji: Staubwolke">
4/ Other deals

• AI-for-manufacturing startup @_DataProphet raised $6M

• Crypto exchange @yellowcardio raised $1.5M (& @a16z participated)

• Talent platform @jobcrystal raised $250K

• Foodtech firm Ordera raised a seed round

• Martech firm DigiFi raised a pre-seed round
5/ Strategic reads

• Why your startup needs a product-market fit metric - https://medium.com/technexus/why-your-startup-needs-a-product-market-fit-metric-15b3d969da06

•">https://medium.com/technexus... Resizing IROKO - https://jason.com.ng/resizing-iroko/ 

•">https://jason.com.ng/resizing-... Venture scale startups targeting Africa should start with a multi-country mindset - https://afridigest.substack.com/p/venture-scale-startups-targeting">https://afridigest.substack.com/p/venture...
12/ Tweets of the week

• Odun Odubanjo shares lessons learned from moving from the Nigerian tech ecosystem to the Canadian one in this thread: https://twitter.com/ODT___/status/1299341788893908998">https://twitter.com/ODT___/st...
13/ Tweets of the week (continued)

• Spencer Greenberg offers a long list of various problem archetypes in this thread

• And he ends with an essay on problem-solving techniques: https://twitter.com/SpencrGreenberg/status/1296426161774485512">https://twitter.com/SpencrGre...
15/ That& #39;s all for Week 35

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