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Long-term advances in telecommunications infrastructure and an expanding pool of professional computer engineering skills have improved local ecosystems.
Fremont, CA: Financial exclusion endures as a socio-economic burden and a symptom of African economies' structural inefficiencies. It also represents opportunities for technology and telecoms companies to catalyze innovations that increase market access to previously unserviced client categories while also creating attractive returns for investors, now more than ever.
Hundreds of funded startups have already begun unlocking the long-term value in almost every sector, mainly financial services, in African countries like Egypt and Nigeria, the continent's largest and most mature economies, where financial exclusion rates remain orders of magnitude higher than in the United States.
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The underlying opportunity landscape reflected in the digital transformations ongoing in African economies, starting with Egypt and Nigeria, two of Africa's emerging technological hubs, would be prudent for foreign capital allocators to consider.
Even markets as geographically and culturally dissimilar as North and Sub-Saharan Africa have critical common success criteria, such as:
Longer-term liquidity for today's early-stage technology assets may potentially increase as a result of recent trends toward Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") principles, in addition to the medium-term improvements in exit prospects. Indeed, ESG standards are now applied to about USD 40.5 trillion in assets under management.
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