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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. But again the store of value in prepaid minutes was the key.

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