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What VCs Really Bet On: Founders and Their Teams

Accelerating Action: Rethinking Investment Strategies to Close the Gender Gap in Africa's Venture Capital Funding Flows

Building for Trust, Scale, and Inclusion: Lessons from Fez Delivery’s Journey

Venture Capital as a Catalyst: Driving Africa’s Transformation Through Investment in Innovation

The Egypt-Nigeria Corridor: Why Cairo and Lagos Must Build Together

Mainstreaming ESG in Africa’s Early-Stage Companies: What Founders Need to Know

Powering the Future: How SunFi is Democratizing Solar Financing in Nigeria

Revenue Models Hierarchy: Why some models do better than others for startups in Africa

February 19, 2025

Africa’s Tech Opportunity: Building Trust as the Catalyst for Growth

February 18, 2025

Inside the VP Founders’ Retreat 2025: Insights, Strategy, and Community

February 7, 2025

When Winter Breeds Winners: Our Perspectives on 2025

February 7, 2025

Collins Gilbert is Ventures Platform's Culture Champion of the Year!

February 6, 2025

Winter Is Thawing: A Unique Perspective on What 2025 Holds for Founders

January 21, 2025

2024 in Review: Championing Resilience and Redefining Africa's Prosperity in Venture Capital

December 29, 2024

Where Innovation Meets Culture: Highlights from APS 2024

December 28, 2024

The supreme importance of high growth venture capital in creating prosperity in Africa

December 5, 2024

Rethinking Licensing and Permitting for Startup Growth in Africa

November 5, 2024

Leveraging AI and Data Science for Early-Stage Product Strategy

November 1, 2024

Africa, a Viable Investment Case with Promising Returns

November 1, 2024

Unlocking SaaS Growth: Key Indicators for Profitability, Viability, and Long-Term Growth

October 3, 2024

The Big Four Fallacy: Rethinking African Markets

September 18, 2024

Climate Tech in Africa: Balancing Innovation with Ethical Investment

September 5, 2024

Founding Partner, Kola Aina, Joins the EFInA Board

August 20, 2024

Funding Your Startup: A Realistic Look Beyond Venture Capital

Fundraising Terms: Pay-To-Play

Fundraising Terms: Warrants

Fundraising Terms: Anti-Diltuion Provision (Part 2)

Fundraising Terms: Anti-Diltuion Provision (Part 1)

The Unseen Advantage: The Power of Process in Building a Scalable Tech Startup

Fundraising Terms: Liquidation Preference (Part 2)

Fundraising Terms: Liquidation Preference (Part 1)

Is a SAFE Instrument Truly Safe? The Case for Priced Seed Rounds over SAFE Note

Fundraising Terms: Employee Option Pool

Fundraising Terms: Introducing the Term Sheet & Valuation

Navigating success: stories of triumph and resilience, Part 3

Navigating success: stories of triumph and resilience, Part 2

Navigating success: stories of triumph and resilience, Part 1

Surviving the Funding Winter: Startup Valuations, Exits, and Governance in the Time of Rising Interest Rates

December 30, 2023

Reflecting on 2023: A Year in Review

December 29, 2023

Igniting Prosperity: Recap of the Africa Prosperity Summit 2023

December 1, 2023

6 Strategies to Overcome the Funding Winter

November 3, 2023

Re-introducing Ventures Platform: Our Rebranding Story

October 30, 2023

Why we Invested: LENGO - Stop guessing Africa

October 19, 2023

The platform role for African VC firms: A mere trend or a value driver?

October 6, 2023

A Milestone Investment: Remedial Health Series A Funding

Funding Prosperity: Venture Capital Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty in Africa

Building Africa's Leading Communications Platform: Our Investment in Termii

Partnering With Talstack: Upskilling Africa's Workforce

Digitising Africa’s Freight Network: Our Investment in Chargel

January 10, 2023

Ventures Platform Closes its Pan-African Fund above its initial target - at $46M

December 15, 2022

Announcing our Latest Investments

October 3, 2022

Ventures Platform Fund is Hiring!!

September 26, 2022

Enabling Small Businesses Succeed: Our Investment in PressOne

September 15, 2022

How to think through your Business

Ventures Platform 2021: Year in Review

December 29, 2021

You Once Had A Business Idea

5 Years, and the Journey's Just Begun: Ventures Platform Foundation 2020 Annual Impact Report

December 30, 2020

Two quick lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs.

October 21, 2020

You’re a software developer. Where’s your start up?

Unpacking SaaS Churn

November 20, 2019

5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Great for Your Startup

November 15, 2019

10x

Ventures Platform @ 1: A note on Hacks & Lessons

December 27, 2017

Thanks to you; 2016 was awesome!

December 30, 2016