Byld Ventures, a $15M fund, backs fintechs in Africa

Two years before Youcef Oudjidane co-founded Sudanese fintech Bloom after failing to find startups tackling currency depreciation in Africa to invest in, he was the managing partner and head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Class 5 Global, a San Francisco-based venture fund with a keen interest in emerging markets.
But Class 5 wasn’t his first shot at venture capital investing. At Solebury Capital, a boutique investment bank later acquired by PNC Financial Services, the U.K.-born entrepreneur, who is Algerian by descent, was a senior associate. And in 2017, he joined as head of stra

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