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Benj Conway Bet on a Smaller Sun
The former diplomat behind Zap Energy has spent his career entering places other people avoid. His fusion wager follows the same rule: simplify the machine, shorten the experiment, and make the economics matter from day one.
The Venture Fund That Brought an Operating Team to the Term Sheet
Greenhouse Capital grew out of a Lagos venture builder and learned that a cheque is only the opening move. Its real product is an operating bench for founders building financial infrastructure where the rulebook is still being written.
Shamoon Tariq Is Turning Pakistan’s Mattress Money Into a Market
After years investing across frontier markets from Sweden, Muhammad Shamoon Tariq returned to a harder brief: make regulated saving ordinary in Pakistan. Mahaana’s digital accounts, Islamic funds and retirement platform are his attempt to replace paperwork and inertia with a habit.
DFS Is Betting Africa’s Next Tech Boom Won’t Look Like Silicon Valley
The firm once known as DFS Lab spent a decade studying how money and commerce move across frontier markets. Now it is turning that fieldwork into an investment thesis for AI, industry and the infrastructure in between.
The VC Betting Pakistan's Cash Economy Will Become Software
Zayn VC looks sector-agnostic until you follow the money. Across wallets, freight, fashion and student loans, its portfolio makes one recurring wager: digitize the transaction first, then build finance on top of it.