How Two Africans Overcame Bias To Build A Startup Worth Billions - Forbes

A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services to Africa's 1.2 billion people. With 5 million users, San Francisco-based Chipper Cash is just getting started.

It was the summer of 2018, and Ham Serunjogi, a 24-year-old Ugandan immigrant, thought the pitch he was making to a Palo Alto venture capi­tal firm was going well. He had explained how his fintech st… [+6721 chars]

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