Catalytic Africa: African startups can now rely on a new investment tool. Catalytic Africa, developed in collaboration with African Business Angels Network (ABAN) and AFriLabs, was designed to strengthen African startups, innovation hubs, and angel investors by connecting startups with powerful funders. Catalytic Africa co-invests with “angel investors” to provide extra funding to innovative startups. […]

Black artists tend to be left out of the mainstream art world, but are getting their art exposed, and sold, through non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. NFTs are becoming part of the digital art world — and Black artists selling NFTs are starting to benefit. On the art global market, just 1.2 percent is artwork, according to September 2018 data.

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