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    Udoh Charles

    Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer, who has several years of experience working in Africa’s burgeoning tech startup industry. He has closed multi-million dollar deals bordering on venture capital, private equity, intellectual property (trademark, patent or design, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, in countries such as in the Delaware, New York, UK, Singapore, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Nigeria etc. He’s also a corporate governance and cross-border data privacy and tax expert. As an award-winning writer and researcher, he is passionate about telling the African startup story, and is one of the continent’s pioneers in this regard.

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     The Mohammed VI Investment Fund (FM6I) has received an overwhelming response to its call for expressions of interest to manage Morocco's newly launched $150 million startup fund. Of the 47 applications received, 12 were from local applicants and 33 were from international fund managers,...

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