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Cabo Verde Digital buys founders time to build
A monthly stipend, a borrowed desk, a route abroad. Cabo Verde Digital treats the making of a startup as a practical problem - and is taking the same approach to digital access across the islands.
They wanted a place at Berkeley. Then they wanted a department.
Central Americans for Empowerment began with the search for community. Its students have turned that search into history classes, public advocacy, and a campaign to give Central America a lasting academic home.
Yarl IT Hub Wants a Silicon Valley. Its Work Starts in the Classroom.
In Northern Sri Lanka, Yarl IT Hub connects school projects, coding scholarships and startup mentoring. The revealing part is what happens between the programs.
Taptap Send
Taptap Send is a mobile-first remittance app that lets migrants and diaspora communities send money home to Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean quickly and at low cost. Founded in 2018 by Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus - the team behind GiveDirectly and Segovia - the app charges no explicit transfer fee on most corridors, earning instead through a transparent exchange-rate margin, and delivers roughly 95% of payments within three minutes to bank accounts, mobile-money wallets and cash-pickup points across 70+ destination countries.