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Rob Eloff in Lateral Frontiers

Feb 10, 2021

Africa Accelerating

Our collective world has gone through rapid change since we set out on the journey we did 4 years ago, but boy did 2020 keep…

Steven Grin in Lateral Frontiers

Jan 22, 2018

Private Equity As Usual Will Not Work in Africa

Why KKR’s decision to leave Africa shouldn’t matter

Africa is significantly underrepresented in international capital markets. Although the region possesses 16% of the world’s population, it holds less than 1% of private…

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Shreyas Mishra in Lateral Frontiers

Aug 1, 2022

It is high time B2B Payments gets solved

Couple months ago, we hosted a portfolio dinner at a restaurant in Nairobi. We thought we…

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Samakab Hashi in Lateral Frontiers

Jun 25, 2021

Lateral Thinking: Open Banking and Embedded Finance in Africa — Part 2

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Samakab Hashi in Lateral Frontiers

Jun 21, 2021

Lateral Thinking: Open Banking and Embedded Finance in Africa — Part 1

Samakab Hashi, Shreyas Mishra, and Njuguna Kamau.

Foreword

This 3 part series will examine the emergence of open banking and embedded finance across the…

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ASHADE OLUMIDE in Lateral Frontiers

Nov 17, 2022

Nigerian in Nairobi

Insights on the Nigerian & Kenyan VC Ecosystem

PS: My thoughts are mine alone and does not…

Steven Grin in Lateral Frontiers

Apr 14, 2021

Decentralized Finance in Africa

Tear Down the Wall

Rob Eloff in Lateral Frontiers

Feb 7, 2023

5 places to escape to this investment winter

African tech can thrive in the new normal

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Bryan Njuguna in Lateral Frontiers

Apr 26, 2022

An Internship, a bull market, and me — Lateral Frontiers

I joined VC smack in the middle of a pandemic. When I joined I had no idea what the next twelve months would be like — the pressures I would deal with, the joys and the disappointments. I still have a long way to go in becoming a…

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Samakab Hashi in Lateral Frontiers

Feb 4, 2022

NFTs from Fad to Function

Jack Dorsey sells his first tweet ever as an NFT for over $2.9 million

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