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Our First Investment: biNu – A platform to reach more Africans on basic mobile devices

Aug 18 2012in investment, News Mbwana No Comments »

I am happy to announce Savannah Fund’s first seed investment- biNu mobile- we participated in this round along with Eric Schmidt of Tomorrow Ventures and a number of other Angels investors. The story of how Savannah Fund became involved in biNu started early this year when I was in the middle of fundraising for the [...]

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Overview of Savannah Fund- Subsaharan Africa Tech Seed fund AND Accelerator

Jun 7 2012in News admin No Comments »

We are excited for the launch of Savannah Fund at Pivot East conference in Nairobi this week. Thought it would be good to provide some clarification on the fund. Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups addressing the Sub-Saharan Africa market. [...]

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