Hi Quartz Africa readers,
Today I’m reflecting on “sneakers and suits” as CEOs of large African companies met with startups founders.
For the first time this year, African startup founders were included in the program of the Africa CEO Forum, the continent’s largest gathering of private sector leaders. The 30 founders who joined the event’s “Disrupters Club” have collectively raised $1 billion since their companies’ inception and included the likes of Uche Ogboi of e-logistics platform Lori Systems, Karim Beguir of Tunisian AI firm Instadeep, which recently raised $100 million, and Ikenna Nzewi of Releaf and Alloysius Attah of Farmerline, respectively Nigeria-founded and Ghana-founded agtech firms.
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