Africa Roundup: TLcom closes $71M fund, Jumo raises $55M, AWS partners with Safaricom
VC firm TLcom Capital closed its Tide Africa Fund at $71 million in February,...
Unpacking Procore’s S-1 filing
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Afternoon News Roundup: JD.id becomes Indonesia’s 6th unicorn after funding from gojek
Finance JD.id to confirm unicorn status after closing funding from gojek...
South Korea is nurturing a fast-growing herd of unicorns. Here is how they do it
Last December, the South Korean bio venture fund Aprogen Pharmaceuticals became...
Understanding Airbnb’s new, stubborn lack of profits
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Meet 5 cybersecurity unicorns that could IPO in 2020
There was a lot of moving and shaking in the cybersecurity unicorn world in...
2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns
Two years ago, we created the Matrix FinTech Index to highlight what we saw as...
Airbnb’s New Year’s Eve guest volume shows its falling growth rate
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2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs, China goes digital, Nigeria becomes fintech capital
2019 brought more global attention to Africa’s tech scene than perhaps any...
The year of the French unicorns
In September 2019, President Emmanuel Macron was about to wrap up a speech on...