It’s official: $4.9M raised to build the OS for finance and money in emerging markets. Led by @FlourishVC, joined by @Visa, @lavavc_ , @TLcomCapital, @AntlerGlobal, @MushaVentures, 4DX Ventures and more. Grateful. Humbled. Excited. 4 years ago, I built @honeycoinapp from my bedroom during COVID. Today, we move $150M every month across 100 countries. This is the first time we're talking about our journey ever. 🧵 1/

Your CEO should be strong. Your CTO should be wise. Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,

This stuff would have been on the front page of every big publication in 2020, 200 likes and a few retweets. We're now not so early.

- @stchibie of @paycrest - @justvibesncode of @honeycoinapp - Dami of the streets Was so nice visiting Honeycoin's HQ yesterday.

one day

the excitement I had about software engineering in 2012 is back only this time I have superpowers. what a time to be alive

Probably nothing.

Only 11% of investors have ever backed a Seed winner that crossed $100M in revenue. Just ~1.5% of VC-backed startups ever reach $100M in revenue, so backing even one is rare. Of the 19,581 investors in our dataset, 17,445 (89.1%) have never done it; another 8.2% have done it exactly once. Just 25 investors — the top 0.13% — have produced 11 or more such winners. That handful drives a disproportionate share of venture returns. Explore the full ranking: dealroom.co/power-law-invest…

African Governments are not ready for the wave of AI Assisted attacks that will continue to happen, the very institutions we expect to protect citizens data will become shopping malls for attackers and buyers on the dark web. The worst part is it will only get worse before it gets better.

It begins.

In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.

Shocking.

Two years after selling a majority stake in @HisaApp, one promise @eldivine and I made was to significantly improve the trading experience—and today, we’re proud to launch Hisa 2.0 for users in Kenya and Nigeria.

Average startup founder experience first thing in the morning while you're still booting up

Calling it now: it's gonna be a Stablecoin Summer

Do freelancers and creators know that a bajillion startups are all building companies for them?

GitLab's founder was told he has bone cancer. No trials would take him. Doctors signed off. So he went founder mode on his own survival. - Built his own treatments - Used AI to analyze his own tumor data - Open-sourced 25TB of his medical records for any researcher on earth Relapse-free since 2025. The system said he was out of options. He made his own.

Honeycoin founder @justvibesncode has created kenyanbanks.com, a tool to compare the performance of the top Kenyan Banks from one place. 👏🏾👏🏾