Meet some of the women at Moniepoint 👋🏽. From the East to the west, wherever you are working from, we’re so glad to be with you! 💖 #PoweringDreams #WomenOfMoniepoint

It's International Women's Day, and we're excited to kick off our Women-in-Tech Internship 4.0! 🚀 This year, we're making it bigger, and 10 women will get to join our team! Don’t wait. Apply here: bit.ly/4caayFZ #PoweringDreams #Moniepointwomenintechinternship

Staggering stat from 2,750 track records we have at 20VC: 78% of reserve dollars deployed at the subsequent round are misallocation (do not achieve a 5x in 5 year time period). We grossly overestimate our ability to pick winners in the subsequent round.

Breaking news: Visa and Mastercard have agreed to cut their US transaction fees in a landmark settlement that will save them $30bn over five years on.ft.com/3VudF5V

✈️Triply (YC W24) is building the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. They help these businesses collect payments, automate operations, and give them access to financial services. Congrats on the launch, Peter Wachira and Collins! ycombinator.com/launches/Klo-t…

Fun fact: during Box’s Series B we were in the midst of pivoting to the enterprise, with an untested freemium model, and running out of runway. The strategy was speculative. Every partner we pitched passed, but one associate (Mamoon Hamid) fought to push the deal through, saving us.

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We need to stop already with unicorn aspirations for founders and unicorn KPIs for funds. Especially in emerging markets. We should focus instead on how you generate liquidity as a startup, even if it’s $300M M&A (amazing btw). Fetishizing paper valuation >$1B is nonsense

Very surprised at the number of founder friends who have quietly called in the last few days asking for advice on how to sell their company bc they raised at too high of valuations and are now in a state of purgatory. All are great founders with businesses that are doing many

Today, I’m thrilled to announce Moniepoint has raised $110 million—a milestone in our mission to bring financial happiness to millions across Africa! This is just Day One, and we’re eager to keep powering more dreams!🚀 moniepoint.com/blog/moniepoin…

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If you didn’t invest in the pre/seed round of a startup then you can’t say you invested in a unicorn if they become $1B val Invested at Series A maybe but anything after that doesn’t count.

This raise means so much to us as a team, but it’s not just about us, and here’s some context on what it means for the future of financial services in Africa. We’ve been successful in helping Africans on the continent with the tools they need to manage their finance and grow

Start off your week with some insights on the African financial ecosystem from Felix, our CTO on the 11:FS podcast. He spoke about how Moniepoint builds products that scale, and solves the payment and banking challenges that businesses and individuals face. Click the link below

What a time…top 3 highlight during my analyst years.

“The critical quality required in Africa is to be a deal-maker, rather than merely a deal-taker.” — Tope Lawani

It’s Day 1 with Visa 🫵🏽 Visa is now part of our journey. We’re thrilled to welcome them as an investor, supporting our mission to bring financial happiness to every African, everywhere. As a global payments leader and strong advocate for SMEs, Visa recognises the power of

More than 40% of LPs into venture funds under $100M are individual people, not institutions or family offices. Major reason why the liquidity crunch in emerging venture is so tough - unlikely that many individuals can support new fund investments without recycled capital

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Here we go🙅🏾‍♀️ The Biggest Transfer of the season. #BiggestTransferOfTheSeason #MadeForYourProgress