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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Sky.Garden, Kenya’s Amazon-style marketplace, faces closure after funding fell through

TechCrunch

We are in dialogue with potential investors and acquirers but as we have to be diligent about doing things the right way, we chose on September 16th to give our staff 30 days’ notice while working on our opportunities,” said Maljund, adding that 2022 has been a very tough year for startups/scaleups in general.

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FSI Member Spotlight Episode #18 – Jeff Horvath

Praxent

Jeff Horvath – There’s three of us on the founding team in DigiPli, and all of us spent the last 25 plus years working for major financial institutions, either in a legal or compliance or I.T. Jeff Horvath – And this is the one that I would say is applicable to almost every fintech, especially in a B2C space.

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Best Practices for Communicating with Customers During an Outage

xmatters

When an incident does inevitably occur, communication is critical while your teams are working to minimize the impact and expedite a solution. Customer service and communications teams, however, must prioritize establishing effective communication with impacted users. Both teams have the right frame of mind, they need to be aligned.

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Executive Round Table with Kent Barner and Jay Reed

TechFides Blog

He now looks to bring this same service to mid-market companies and companies in the M&A space. At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. The other pillars are Mergers and Acquisitions, from buy-side due diligence and post-transaction integration.

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Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later

TechCrunch

That’s not much of a surprise, given that the buy now, pay later market size was valued at $16 billion in 2021 and is poised to grow nearly six times by 2029. It has a small team of eight right now and plans to grow that to 30 over the next five months. As mentioned, Slope intends to use most of the new funding for hiring and to scale.