Tage Kene-Okafor
Technology Journalist at TechCrunch
africa @techcrunch; hmu 📩. formerly @techpointafrica. @chelseafc & @warriors fiend.
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2 days ago |
techcrunch.com | Tage Kene-Okafor
Mercury co-founder and CEO Immad Akhund today announced the launch of a $26 million fund to back early-stage startups, a move that formalizes his extensive history of angel investing. Axios first reported in February. Akhund has been an active angel investor since 2016, backing over 350 startups at their earliest stages. His portfolio includes companies such as Airtable, Applied Intuition, Decagon, Gecko Robotics, Linear and Substack, among others.
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4 days ago |
technewstube.com | Tage Kene-Okafor
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4 days ago |
techcrunch.com | Tage Kene-Okafor
For decades, buying property in Egypt meant navigating a fragmented real estate market, relying on personal networks, dealing with commission-driven brokers, and facing developers more focused on selling than serving customer needs. In 2019, Mostafa El Beltagy, Abdel-Azim Osman, Ahmed Rafea, Mohamed Abou Ghanima, and Aly Rafea founded Nawy to bring transparency and efficiency to the market.
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1 week ago |
techcrunch.com | Tage Kene-Okafor
While most African digital lenders depend on working capital to fuel growth, MoneyFellows has quietly done what few others have: lend billions of Egyptian pounds with almost no debt or balance sheet exposure. Now, after raising $13 million in a pre-Series C round led by Casablanca-based Al Mada Ventures and DPI’s Nclude Fund, the Cairo-based fintech says it’s ready to shift from steady growth to regional expansion.
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1 week ago |
technewstube.com | Tage Kene-Okafor
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