Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Nairobi is the undisputed startup hub of East Africa, and perhaps all of Africa. and we can’t do it by ourselves. Has Pawame been involved with other pitch events?
View from Seed
MARCH 4, 2020
Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. At a firm level, I think that getting multiple partners on the list is a great milestone as well. In 2009 Bessemer had the most Midas List partners with 6 investors. Name brand firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, and NEA had 4+ partners on the list. I find this super impressive.
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David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. Shelly Porges, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beyond the Billion , observed, “While we all want to have invested in those exciting home-runs/unicorns, most investors are seeking the data points to construct reliable portfolios.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin).
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 2, 2010
“Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. The only person who could carry you on his budget is the lead partner, Cory Van Wolvelaere.&#. He was a senior partner, I was a peon. He had already sent a bunch of his staff on projects in Argentina & South Africa at super cheap rates just to keep his staff busy.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2017
This will require many partners – credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. However, the vast majority of bankless adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and India. Even the United States has unbanked households. In India, at least 50% of the 1.3
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. When there are enough “no’s,” then adapting by developing potential pivots.
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