Investor shares his playbook after a 29x exit in Africa

Investor shares his playbook after a 29x exit in Africa

Ibrahim Sagna spent more than two decades in finance, including at the African Export-Import Bank and the Africa Finance Corporation, before co-founding Silverbacks Holdings, a firm that invests in technology, entertainment, sport and the creative industries. How we made it in Africa editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz spoke to Sagna about the firm’s origins and how it…

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SpaceX shares slide below listing price

SpaceX shares slide below listing price

SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. Gabriel V Cardenas/Reuters SpaceX shares dropped below their initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday before closing just above that level, just over a month after the rockets-to-AI firm completed the biggest IPO ever and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The shares slid 0.6% to…

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Kuaishou shares jump after securing Tencent funding for Kling AI

Kuaishou shares jump after securing Tencent funding for Kling AI

Kuaishou headquarters is pictured on November 5, 2020, in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Kuaishou Technology shares rose nearly 7% Friday before trimming gains, after the company announced a capital injection of nearly $2.8 billion into its artificial intelligence subsidiary, Kling AI, with backing from tech giant Tencent. The Beijing-based short video…

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Datatec CEO lifts hedge ceiling as shares surge

Datatec CEO lifts hedge ceiling as shares surge

Datatec group CEO Jens Montanana Datatec founder and CEO Jens Montanana has restruck a massive collar hedge over 2.4 million of his shares as part of an extension to an equity-funding arrangement – essentially refinancing a loan secured against his stake in the company. According to a JSE investor statement, the transaction involves an off-market…

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