"Early stage funding for businesses in Africa is still a huge problem. This is clear given the recent example of Jacana Partners to halt the fundraising efforts for its US$75m small and medium enterprise private equity fund. Jacana Partners has been one of the prominent players in this space over the last two years.
Can corporate venture capital (CVC) be the solution to plug this funding
gap? CVC is the practice of a large company taking an equity stake in a
small but innovative or specialist firm, to which it may also provide
management and marketing expertise. The objective is to gain a specific
competitive advantage and is usually done to top up the efforts of the
research and development department..."
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