|#464 MWAVC| — Sunday Reads 🗞️🗞️🗞️🗞️
Hi,
Welcome to MWAVC, a newsletter about finance, investing, venture capital and all that jazz. My name is Ato (more about me here) and I try to write every single day. Most of it is stuff I find interesting that I’d like to share and hear your thoughts on. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on.
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The Lionel Messi saga is a lesson in how not to handle a prize asset: Not exactly feasible because Barcelona is fan-owned, but yes, I can see a situation in which this format works. Good thinking.
Flourish Focus a series featuring 1:1 exchanges with fintech innovators around the world: Sign up! Efayomi Carr speaking with Apollo Agriculture.
When it comes to investing in African tech, sustainability matters: Bullish on the future of African tech through Maya.
The hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to: But will the bubble burst soon? I don’t think so. Still day 1 in Africa. Watch RCV make some super exits in the next 3 yers.
Revenue-based financing startup Jenfi raises $6.3M to focus on high-growth Southeast Asian companies: Solid solid. Big fan of RBF. Anyone want to take a stab at this in Africa?
China Eyes Wealth Redistribution in Push for ‘Common Prosperity’: Well well well, what do we have here? We’ll be seeing a lot of folks move their assets out of China quickkkk! See example below
Don't F*ck with the CCP: For if you want to learn more about the CCP. Subscribe to her newsletter though. Very informative.
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations: Watch this and see what foreign money (FDI) is doing to English football.
Here are the 8 innovative African startups selected for GreenHouse Lab 2021 fintech accelerator programme: Placing personal bets in at least one of these. let’s see how it pans out.
Fintech startup, Pngme, closes $15m Series A to increase customer base, expand team: Started out as something else. Pivoted real quick and now raising 15m$. Good for them.
Nigerian e-sports startup Gamr raises round of seed investment: Anyone know any other gaming startups out there? 👀 I found one but looking for more.
Sign up to my cousin Yasbo’s newsletter, ChopLife Express btw AND listen to her podcast, Savings or Current. She’s already been dropping some serious gems, including this one on time management and this one on how the economy works.
📱📱Quote of the day
“be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character–be careful of your character for your character becomes your destiny.”
Remember:
“Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
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