Richard Aseme (@richard_aseme) 's Twitter Profile
Richard Aseme

@richard_aseme

investor in all things African fintech & crypto | @DCGco | ex-movie guy | ex-Africa Fintech Collective | views expressed are my own

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linkhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-aseme/ calendar_today14-01-2025 04:41:09

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DCG (@dcgco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2/ We focused on our growth in emerging markets, 50% of DCG’s 2024 venture investments were in emerging markets, spanning Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2024 was a big investing year for DCG, with 50% of our investments in emerging markets spanning Africa, Latin America and Asia and yes, 2025 is going to be a big year

TechCabal (@techcabal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lync's launch comes after Mercury, a San Francisco-based fintech, restricted accounts for startups in 13 African countries in July 2024 following internal compliance changes. techcabal.com/2025/01/20/waz…

DCG (@dcgco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re excited to announce the launch of Fortitude Mining today as a new DCG subsidiary. Spun out of Foundry, Fortitude Mining is uniquely positioned to institutionalize mining in emerging ecosystems with attractive return profiles DCG is proud to bring Fortitude Mining

Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing DCG’s 5th subsidiary, Fortitude Mining! Originally part of Foundry, Fortitude Mining is pioneering venture mining- a unique model providing diversified exposure to crypto and engages early in fast-growing Proof of Work ecosystems beyond just bitcoin

Aaron Fu (@aaronqfu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stablecoin infra's impact is 100% more acutely felt in emerging markets where DCG has doubled down on leaders like Hugo Finkelstein at payroll disruptor Rise 🇺🇸 + Ezra Kebrab at compliance cross-border payments team Caliza 🇧🇷🇲🇽 - great piece tage! techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/sta…

JC Bahr-de Stefano (@jbahrdestefano) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wow - global payroll + compliance platform deel announced a $300M secondary share sale late last year from General Catalyst + Abu Dhabi sov wealth fund Highlights - $800M run rate (70% YoY 🔼) - 👀ing IPO as early as 2026 - Val ~$12.6B Easy to forget this biz was founded in

Wow - global payroll + compliance platform <a href="/deel/">deel</a>  announced a $300M secondary share sale late last year from <a href="/generalcatalyst/">General Catalyst</a> + Abu Dhabi sov wealth fund

Highlights
- $800M run rate (70% YoY 🔼)
- 👀ing IPO as early as 2026
- Val ~$12.6B

Easy to forget this biz was founded in
Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you agree that Bittensor $TAO is going to eat the AI world? Are you the future Warren Buffett of subnet token investing? Well, Yuma might have a job for you. We're looking for an Investment Lead to oversee all subnet token investing & trading job-boards.greenhouse.io/yuma/jobs/5462…

DCG (@dcgco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

DCG has invested in 23 companies across Africa, with 12 of those investments made in 2024. "We’re doubling down on our commitment to the region’s potential" - Richard Aseme to Disrupt Africa, sharing the latest DCG venture activity. disruptafrica.com/2025/02/21/us-…

DCG (@dcgco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our Director of Venture, Aaron Fu | in Doha 🇶🇦💡, sat down with Tom Jackson from Disrupt Africa for a deep dive into the African investment landscape. “Investing in founders at the earliest of stages is a core part of our DNA” - Aaron Fu | in Doha 🇶🇦💡. Tune in here 🎧 soundcloud.com/disruptafricap…

Aaron Fu (@aaronqfu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Epic news in South Africa 🇿🇦 w Stitch closing it's $55m Series B led by QED Investors! Proud for DCG to be seed investors in Stitch's vision to create an omnichannel end-to-end payments platform enabling businesses across South Africa! techpoint.africa/news/south-afr…

Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sat for my first public interview in four years. Great to catch up with Raoul Pal and talk about DCG's history, where we're investing & building and why I'm so excited about Bittensor $TAO and our new company, Yuma youtu.be/XoqdTfKQCjA?si…

DCG (@dcgco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Six years since his last podcast, our CEO Barry Silbert sat down with Raoul Pal for a wide-ranging conversation on his journey: from founding DCG and Grayscale, to leading the way in deAI with Yuma, and covering what’s next on the frontier of decentralization. Listen

Stackup (@stackup_fi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚀 We've raised $4.2M to modernize financial operations for crypto companies! Led by 1kx with Y Combinator, Goodwater, DCG, and SevenX Ventures Just like Brex transformed traditional business finance, we're making crypto ops seamless.

Luno (@lunoglobal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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Rob Hadick >|< (@hadickm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are on the precipice of a wave of traditional markets and payments coming onchain and CT is just a bunch of people inanely arguing about their preferred blockspace The continued growth of this space requires more than any one eco, and this zero sum thinking is just brain dead