Ventures Platform: the LP list is the real story
Closing $84 million in a down cycle is genuinely impressive. But the number that matters most isn't the total — it's the EBRD's $8 million ticket.
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Thu, Aug 27
MTN Launches AI Infrastructure Arm
Africa Data Hub: MTN just made the infrastructure layer permanent
A joint venture can be wound down. A separately incorporated holding company with its own capital structure is much harder to undo.
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MTN-IHS: the 30% condition just became permanent policy
Two regulators, the same condition. That's not coincidence — that's Nigeria telling the market this rule is settled.
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SA Compute: the 'most powerful' claim is the distraction — the arrival is the point
Stratos Lab and its partners have deployed frontier Nvidia B300 GPUs — chips so tightly controlled that Taiwanese authorities are still running export-compliance checks as they leave the factory — into a data centre north of Johannesburg.…
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AU Credit Rating: an October launch date is not the same as a working agency
The African Union's new credit rating body launching in Mauritius on 5 October would matter enormously if it works. African governments genuinely do pay more to borrow than their underlying finances often justify, and a credible…
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MTN Banking: becoming a bank means answering to bank regulators
Getting a banking licence doesn't just unlock deposit-taking — it hands every central bank on the continent a direct supervisory lever over MTN's financial business.
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