Mobile Capital and (Im)Mobile Entrepreneurs: Start-up Success, Institutional Context and the “Laws of Start-up Money” in Silicon Savannah

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Anonymised dataset with information on the start ups and founders
Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2024) ‘To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya’, Finance and Space, 1, 517–541. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2418871 Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2025) ‘Making Sense of Funding Inequalities in the Venture Capital Space: A State-of-the-Art Paper with Views from Africa’, Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf007 Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf007
Anonymised transcription of interviews with startup founders: East Africa
Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2024) ‘To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya’, Finance and Space, 1, 517–541. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2418871 Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2025) ‘Making Sense of Funding Inequalities in the Venture Capital Space: A State-of-the-Art Paper with Views from Africa’, Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf007 Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf007
Dataset with information on the start-ups and founders
Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2024) ‘To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya’, Finance and Space, 1, 517–541. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2418871 Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2025) ‘Making Sense of Funding Inequalities in the Venture Capital Space: A State-of-the-Art Paper with Views from Africa’, Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf007 Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf007
Recordings of interviews with startup founders: East Africa
Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2024) ‘To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya’, Finance and Space, 1, 517–541. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2418871 Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2025) ‘Making Sense of Funding Inequalities in the Venture Capital Space: A State-of-the-Art Paper with Views from Africa’, Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf007 Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf007
Transcription of interviews with startup founders: East Africa
Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2024) ‘To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya’, Finance and Space, 1, 517–541. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2418871 Mkalama, B. and Ouma, S. (2025) ‘Making Sense of Funding Inequalities in the Venture Capital Space: A State-of-the-Art Paper with Views from Africa’, Socio-Economic Review. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf007 Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf007