Kuzana
Kyle Schutterbuilding the YCombinator for African SMEs
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 8 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 8 months ago |
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Most equity investments in 2025?
Who made the Most Equity investments in Kenyan companies This Year?
If you had to guess which investor made the most equity investments in Kenya in 2025…
You’d probably name one of the usual suspects.
But surprise…
it looks like Kuz...
Can the founder delegate sales?
Founder-led sales isn’t optional—it’s essential.
Last Friday, we hosted the brilliant Alejandro Echeverri former Chief Commercial Officer at Mawingu, where he led the company to 3× revenue growth, from financial distress to $400k month...
🎙️ VCs lost $2b chasing 🦄 unicorns in Africa
I was a guest on Startup Evangelist podcast in Kenya. Its the best overview of the journey to build Kuzana that we have created so far.
We talked about:
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how to predict the future (how it won’t be different)
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where the Kuzana idea...
The Best AFRICAN Investment No One Is Talking About
Startups are shutting down.
VCs are retreating.
And in the middle of the chaos, one company quietly pulled off 125x growth in just 11 years.
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No, it...
Kuzana Batch1 Final
“Your problem is you’re a missionary, your wife will leave you and you’ll never succeed at this,” Shaun told me—a decamillionaire investor—after a few drinks🍻 at a recent conference.
Maybe... But there are a few things I think he is missi...
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