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FinTech Accelerating Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa

The Startup Magazine

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

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. I joined in March 2017. In the U.S.,

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MyDawa: Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI

ReadWriteStart

Because of this significant investment, Alta Semper Capital is launching its operations in the digital healthcare market in Africa for the very first time. These clinics will now be able to increase their customer base and benefit from the state-of-the-art technology infrastructure provided by MyDawa as a result of these deals.

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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

He has acquired expertise and know-how across a broad range of capacities from subcontractor roles for specialist building technologies to representing clients on behalf of multi-national stakeholders. At the end of the day, if the technology exists, but it’s not being adopted, then the impact and benefits won’t be seen.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

We have partnerships with a large number of lawn care companies and professionals which we then connect our customers with, and we want to start focusing on partnering with companies/professionals that use more environmentally-friendly tools. 2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa. 13- Funding technology initiatives.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

We just held our fourteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.