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African tech took center stage in 2021

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Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. It wasn’t a bad year, though.

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Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down

TechCrunch

Now in the opening weeks of the third quarter, The Exchange is taking a look back at the Q2 2021 venture capital market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. To better understand what’s going on, we talked to investors from different regions to get a grip on how they view their market. Let’s find out.

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Nigerian blockchain payments startup Bitmama closes $2M pre-seed as it scales to new markets

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Africa is the world’s third fastest-growing crypto market, with crypto adoption increasing by more than 1,200% over the last two years. That number has grown to more than 70,000, noted Iselema, adding that both products, Bitmama exchange and Changera, have seen massive uptake with minimal marketing.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ahrefs’ homepage, digital health trends, 2022 marketing predictions

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This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 Kate Adams, SVP of marketing, Validity. Shane Hegde, founder and CEO, Air.

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Israel’s cybersecurity startups post another record year in 2021

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Over the past decade, the Israeli cybersecurity industry has secured its place as a formidable wellspring of technological innovation. Israeli cybersecurity startups in 2021 raised a stunning $8.84 Cybersecurity in Israel has become a polarized market that accepts only two types of startups: potential unicorns and actual unicorns.

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Cannabis marketing startup Fyllo acquires DataOwl

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Fyllo has acquired DataOwl , a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Cannabis marketing company Fyllo acquires CannaRegs for $10M. They’ve historically been excluded from the kinds of integrated marketing capabilities that other non-endemic [mainstream] brands get to use when go to market.”

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Beyond The Hype: AI, Innovation And Rational Investment In 2025

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By Rob Biederman As we turn the page into 2025, my colleagues and I at Asymmetric Capital Partners are optimistic for what the next year holds for growth and innovation. Simultaneously, we foresee the rise of vertical integration plays and those pursuing buy and build strategies for markets in need of technology streamlining.