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The Africa-focused venture firm has closed its second fund at $84 million, nearly double the size of its first.
WHY TWALE: More locally informed capital can create more shots for African founders and the products they are building.
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watchGood systems start by understanding the people inside them. This is a grounded look at what changes when finance pays attention to how farmers actually earn and operate.
watchThis is useful product thinking around a very African financial reality: the last twenty metres between money arriving and money becoming genuinely usable.
watchAn 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.
watchWorth watching because electric mobility in Africa is moving from pilots into the harder work of operations, local markets, servicing and scale. Leadership changes matter when the next phase is execution across multiple countries.
watchWorth watching because the practical test is whether the campaign turns training and talent directories into real paid work. The launch targets one million export-linked jobs by 2030 and says more than 200,000 Nigerians are already in skills training.
watchUseful because the African startup conversation needs more operating lessons and fewer funding headlines. This is about what investors and founders learn when capital becomes scarcer and scaling gets harder.
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