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Cyril Shonibare, Principal at TLCOM—one of Africa’s largest early-stage VC funds—sits down with Launch Base Africa to discuss the firm’s deployment strategy, the collapse of open banking pioneer Okra, and hard-won lessons in early-stage African venture capital.
