$140M USD invested in startups in 2012 seems a bit implausible to me.  Am I missing something?

Also, that 54 startups listed in Angellist located in Kenya is now 71:

https://angel.co/locations

Of those, only 3 are hiring:

https://angel.co/kenya/jobs

And of those 3, all have foreigners on the team and won't be developing core product here in 2 years if the Kenyanization regime isn't changed ...

As an aside, if anybody is hiring at a tech/design startup, AngelList is a great place to have a profile and I'd encourage more local startups to get on there.

-Adam

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi@at.co.ke> wrote:
Robert,

Welcome back.

Now to put this into perspective, Kenyan Startups received in funding approx Ksh ***12, 000, 000, 000*** in 2012. Is there, maybe, a different numberline that us old - hackers were not taught in school?

Rgds


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,

Hoping that you have all started the year well and in a changing spirit, I had a tech free 3 weeks and feel very refreshed.

As we started the year a friend shared the the statistic above with me does anyone on this list know which startups received this money as it would be good to see how it has helped them and the impact it has had on the economy.

Regards

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KAY System Technologies Ltd
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P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


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