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Africa adopted stablecoins out of necessity. Europe tokenized assets by design. Who is funding the bridge between them?
I’ve been working on tokenization in private markets recently. Structuring the use cases, mapping the infrastructure, understanding what’s real and what’s still narrative. In Europe.
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Africa holds 30% of the world’s critical minerals. Where does the value go?
I met someone from the new cohort of Dream VC and we ended up in one of those conversations that stays with you. We talked about VC in Africa, where the continent is headed, and what each of us was most drawn to. She mentioned critical mine...
Europe is funding defence Tech faster than it knows how to buy it
Europe’s defence tech sector raised $8.7 billion in venture capital in 2025. Up 55% year on year. Nearly four times what the sector attracted five years ago. Defence now accounts for 13% of all European VC funding, a share that has tripled...
African tech's next chapter looks less like software and more like infrastructure
African tech debt funding crossed $1 billion in 2025, for the first time in a decade. When the dominant form of capital shifts from equity to debt, it means investors stopped betting on stories and started demanding assets. Collateral. Cash...
Can Tibi's Midas touch make Europe follow?
0.018%. That is the share of their assets that European pension funds allocate to venture capital, on average. The equivalent figure for US pension funds is 1.9%. Not a gap. A hundred times.
That single number explains more about Europe’s...
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VC, capital and markets — from someone who's never stayed on just one side of the table. Startups, IB, M&A and consulting. South of the cap table has two meanings: those who saw what others missed. And the South — where I'm from - By Chaïma Bououni
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