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Vatar, the company behind the viral Nigerian browser game Lagos Life, has closed a $500,000 pre-seed round at a reported $10 million valuation.
WHY TWALE: An unusually fast funding story around a Nigerian-made game — and a useful signal that locally rooted digital products can travel quickly when the culture connects.
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