Sitemap - 2023 - The Realistic Optimist
LATAM has, can, and will create global companies
Cashi: building Sudan's fintech OS against all odds
The first unicorn is the hardest
Africa’s super app needs to be African
Gogoro: electrifying Asia's scooters
Brainly: the Polish startup competing with edtech giants
Wasoko: digitizing Africa's corner shops
Frubana: Betting $270M on LATAM's small restaurants
CAAFiSOM: Somaliland's first VC-backed startup
Alan: the French unicorn sexifying health insurance
Zood: Building the Silk Road 2.0
Nowports: Building LATAM's logistics OS.
How an Iraqi VC thinks in 2023
Bolt: How a 19-year-old Estonian founder took on Uber
Ebanx: Why is a Brazilian fintech unicorn expanding to Africa?
How a Ukrainian VC thinks in 2023
Uganda's startup ecosystem: behind the hype
Can a startup ecosystem and a welfare state co-exist?
The Spanish startup scene's quiet ascent
Wave: the fascinating story of an American-led, Senegal-based unicorn
An untold story of the Tunisian startup ecosystem
Why France's largest VC is government-owned
Rappi's complicated balancing act
"The Filipino startup ecosystem was shielded from the 2022 funding drop"
The Brazilian stock market's battle to retain its startups
The story of Presto, Libya's most funded startup
A plunge into Zambia's unique startup scene
The story of the Italian startup ecosystem
"Our biggest advantage and our biggest disadvantage is being Pakistani"
Yassir and the pioneering of the Algerian startup ecosystem
What does Instadeep's exit actually mean for the African startup ecosystem?
On the need for critical startup journalism
How Singapore became a global VC powerhouse
mPharma: shifting Africa's healthcare paradigm
A peak into Cambodia's startup ecosystem
Is SoftBank LATAM's startup kingmaker?
The timid but ambitious Iraqi startup scene
Daba: The company building Africa's investment OS
How a French startup became the gold standard of crypto security
The state of the Bosnian startup ecosystem
Seedstars' masterplan to accelerate the first global generation of VCs
The diaspora dilemma: lessons from GrowHome
NotCo: the singular story of Chile's first unicorn
The Lebanese startup ecosystem hasn't failed. It's just not solely in Lebanon anymore.