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African tech took center stage in 2021

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Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5

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Early-stage African VC firm, Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19

TechCrunch

In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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Venture capital undermines human rights

TechCrunch

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S.,

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Best Practices for Micro-Services Management, Traceability and Visualization

Speaker: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor, Founding Partner at Kumulus Technologies

This session will provide an overview of service mesh, a review of the Istio service mesh itself, and dive into best practices and integration models for integrating the traceability model into a distributed application. January 31 2019 11.00 Trace Data - Visualizing application traces to understand application interactions.

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Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech

TechCrunch

Since Treepz, formerly Plentywaka, was founded in 2019 in Lagos, the startup has expanded west into Ghana and east into Uganda. You’re seeing investors make a lot more time for due diligence. Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch.

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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

Being ready means understanding why you need that technology and what it is. The time when Hardvard Business Review posted the Data Scientist to be the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” is more than a decade ago [1]. In 2019 alone the Data Scientist job postings on Indeed rose by 256% [2]. Read along to learn more!