Meet the innovators testing new digital solutions to strengthen small businesses. Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our inaugural Strive Community Innovation Fund. The fund has awarded a total of $1 million to enterprises testing new products, features, services and business models that could catalyze small businesses’ resilience…

Blockchain and crypto activity has accelerated across the African continent in recent years to solve real-world problems such as remittances, cross-border payments, financial inclusion and decentralized finance. We hosted our inaugural DFS Lab Blockchain Bootcamp in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) last year to explore some of these…

We’ve launched open applications for our second Blockchain Bootcamp in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) to support the boom of blockchain and crypto activities across the African continent. Our last Blockchain Bootcamp during fall last year saw a number of innovative solutions built on the Stellar network with…

We’re so excited about this. Let’s just get straight to the point: we’ve brought on two new DFS Lab team members and we can’t wait to see where we go together. As you’re maybe already aware, last year we launched Sufficient Capital, our angel investing community. We’re loving the opportunity…

Awards, demos, and more — UPDATE 2/23/2022: Applications for our second Blockchain Bootcamp are now open until March 27, 2022. Apply here. We launched a blockchain bootcamp in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) to support the boom of blockchain and crypto activities across the African continent and we were not disappointed with the…

Country Landscape Review — Authors: Raymond Onuoha (ronuoha@lbs.edu.ng), Olayinka David-West (ydavid-west@lbs.edu.ng), Renée Hunter (rhunter@v4w.org) We are starting a new research project — and we’d like you to join us on the journey. Over the course of 2021, Lagos Business School and Value for Women, in partnership with Caribou Digital, and with the support of…

Sufficient Balance One, Chapter 5 — This is Sufficient Balance One — a five-part content series about the opportunities in African Fintech. Brought to you by DFS Lab and The Subtext. …

Sufficient Balance One, Chapter 4 — By: Stephen Deng This is Sufficient Balance One — a five-part content series about the opportunities in African Fintech. Brought to you by DFS Lab and The Subtext. …

Sufficient Balance One, Chapter 3 — This is Sufficient Balance One — a five-part content series about the opportunities in African Fintech. Brought to you by DFS Lab and The Subtext. …