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African Tech Roundup - Ido Sum explains how TLcom Capital got in on Andela’s $40M Series C

Israeli investor Ido Sum is a Partner at TLcom Capital— a venture capital firm with a presence in Nairobi, Lagos and London. Since 1999, the firm has invested in Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) companies in Europe, Israel and Sub Saharan Africa and currently manages total commitments in excess of €200 million. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at the fringes of African Angel Investor Summit 2017 (www.AAIS2017.com) - Ido fields questions regarding the prevalence of investor bias, the appropriateness of certain VC approaches on the continent, and of course, TLcom's participation in one of 2017’s most well-publicised startup investment deals— Andela’s $40 million Series C, led by South African Pule Taukobong of CRE Venture Capital. Here's a link to Ido Sum's crowdsourced African Investment Landscape Database: http://bit.ly/2Abm8lj. If you are actively involved in early-stage investment efforts on the continent, Ido welcomes your contributions to the spreadsheet.
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Python Bytes - #53 Getting started with devpi and Git Virtual FS

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See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/53
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African Tech Roundup - Kenyan post election reflections with PesaCheck.org Managing Editor Eric Mugendi

In this conversation, Andile Masuku asks PesaCheck.org Managing Editor, Eric Mugendi, to reflect on the unprecedented leveraging of digital technologies by leading actors in Kenya's controversial elections, and to factor in on how the country's emerging tech ecosystem is doing in the aftermath.
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PHPUgly - 84: Loot Crate Edition

Recorded November 16, 2017

Topics

-Introducing Visual Studio Live Share

-Teletype for Atom

-Social Meetup Last Night - The final San Diego Laravel Meetup

-Thomas is liking Tailwindcss

-DiegoDev partners with DonationMatch.com

-Thomas and Eric talk about the results of the 'Reply All' Facebook Snooping Challenge

-Tom Explains Video Games and why the gaming world in mad at EA

-Find cool places to cowork from using Workfrom.co

-Firefox hits the airwaves again with new commercials for their latest release.

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African Tech Roundup - Should Africa-focused Investors Hunt Gorillas, Gazelles Or Unicorns?

Last week, Africa’s early stage investor community came together for the 4th annual African Early Stage Investor Summit (#AAIS2017). At this exclusive investor-only event, hosted at Workshop17 in Cape Town, South Africa, key stakeholders in the ecosystem exchanged insights on best practice, shared lessons learnt, and debated what the roadmap for the future ought to look like. In this African Tech Roundup episode, Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga discuss some of the more contentious issues unpacked at the conference-- including whether or not the hunt for the "African Unicorn" is constructive and how Africa-focused investors might best go about investing with exits in mind. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0