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    Botswana Tech Fund Seals First Close With £5M From Lansdown Family Office

    The Botswana Tech Fund (BTF), domiciled in Guernsey and targeting a total size of £50m.

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    How an Irish Family Office and the DRC’s Postal Service Are Building a Digital Bank for 100m People

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    Egypt’s Reme-D Raises $1.45M to Bring Fridge-Free Diagnostic Tests to Africa’s Remote Clinics

    Since 2023, Reme-D has developed and launched 30 molecular diagnostic products from its manufacturing facility in Cairo.
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