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Laura Davis

Laura Davis

Co-CEO and Managing Partner of Renew Capital, a pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, and editor of The Africa Brief.

Sep 17, 2026

5:32
What does that mean in practice? What does that look like? What's going on there?
5:35
Yeah, so looking at the missing middle and the problem and that thesis that it's both a huge problem and it's a huge opportunity for people like us who are looking at it.
5:46
We like to say at Renew Capital that Africa doesn't have a technology problem.
5:51
It has a distribution of capital problem.
5:54
And as we look at many of the startups, They have built products, B2B SaaS products, and a whole range of things that are servicing small and mid-sized enterprises.
6:07
And so they're accumulating larger and larger sets of data.
6:12
Also, there's readily available data from other sources that can be added on into that.
10:21
What's your take on this shift? And is Renew shifting anything in its approach to capital deployment as a result?

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