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215 An ode to Africa’s startup ecosystem – thriving in spite of a challenging year

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Tom Jackson @ Disrupt Africa 1 place · 12/31/2020 01:00 EDT

An ode to Africa’s startup ecosystem – thriving in spite of a challenging year

When the COVID-19 crisis hit Africa earlier this year, and countries went into varying degrees of lockdown, the prognosis for the continent’s early-stage startup ecosystem was not good. Funding in particular was meant to take a serious hit, and there were fears for the survival of many of the continent’s most exciting young businesses. Startups [...]

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