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Grow VC and the World Bank partner up in Africa
by: Paul Higgins

It is an exciting time right now in Africa. Over the past several years, we have seen a large growth and boom in Africa, specifically in parts of East Africa. One of the industries that is leading the way in development is the mobile industry. The regional tech startup scene in the area continues to experience growing interest from venture capital firms, angel investors, and other funding groups from outside the region.

Today we had the opportunity to speak with Matia Mandela. Matia is based out of East Africa and has a large experience in partnership building with a focus on emergent technologies and innovation for the growth of entrepreneurship in Africa. Matia spoke about some of the recent developments with partnerships between the m:lab East Africa division of the World Bank and Grow VC International to promote the efforts of East Africa’s mobile entrepreneurship development services as well as the creation of the Pivot East Network which directly supports the Pivot East Competition. The Pivot East competion to bring together entrepreneurs and investors interested in the current opportunities in Africa.

Matia can be contacted directly through Twitter at @matiamandela and via LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mmandela

The link for the Pivot East Network is https://www.growvc.com/networks/pivot-east and the blog can be found at http://pivoteast.com/blog/

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Paul Higgins COO of Crowd Valley. Experienced with early stage companies, expertise in b2b software business and sales in Europe, North America, and South America. Paul has 5 years’ experience working as an advisor and consultant to startups as part of Rapid Innovation Group, a specialist advisory firm on strategy and business development for technology startups worldwide, based in London. In that time he has worked with two startups that achieved 8-figure exits; he has been a regular blogger on entrepreneurship and innovation; and he has contributed to numerous business and technology publications in the UK and the US as an expert on growth-stage strategy, marketing, pricing, and business development. Previously Paul worked in technology and marketing roles at eBay, IBM, UBS, and Barclays. He has lived and worked in Portugal and speaks fluent French and Portuguese. Follow Paul on Google+ and Twitter.

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