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Hello all-it’s Mureji Fatunde in New York. Today we’re discussing a seed investment that could plant a—wait for it—seed in the investment landscape for African startups. Elsewhere, the owner of Chelsea FC is bringing a private jet company public through his SPAC.

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I first heard about Stears, the Nigerian startup whose fundraising news I broke this week, in March 2017 when I was living in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.