PinnedJonathan Tower2022 Is The Year Emerging Markets VC Comes Of Age. Here’s Why:VC investing in Emerging Markets is exploding. Why 2022 is the year it all makes sense.Jan 24, 2022Jan 24, 2022
PinnedJonathan TowerinCounter ArtsHow the Creator Economy is Helping Dismantle ‘Old Media.’Recent announcements across the worlds of technology, media and venture capital are serving as a harbinger for how traditional media will…Jul 9, 2021Jul 9, 2021
PinnedJonathan TowerThe Coming Post-Pandemic Economic BoomFrom Kansas City to Kuala Lumpur, there is now a palpable sense that much of the world, with some unfortunate exceptions in India, Japan…May 28, 20211May 28, 20211
PinnedJonathan TowerThe ‘Series A Gap’ in VC is real and widening. Here’s why…March 15 marks the unofficial one-year anniversary of the pandemic. In the year that’s followed, we’ve all read plenty of stories on ‘how…Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021
Jonathan TowerVC 3.0 and the democratization of venture capitalSteve Case, founder of AOL, and early evangelist of ‘rise of the rest’ cities, posited recently in an interview that we are now living in…Apr 28, 20212Apr 28, 20212
Jonathan Tower4 Expectations for Tech and VC in 2021.The year fast coming to a close was unlike any other in our lifetimes. In prior posts, we shared our observations on the state of venture…Dec 30, 2020Dec 30, 2020
Jonathan TowerSilicon Valley’s 70-year dominance in tech is ending…and that’s good for tech.Earlier this month Stripe announced its $200mm acquisition of Paystack, a fintech startup from Lagos, Nigeria. For an African startup to…Oct 30, 2020Oct 30, 2020
Jonathan Tower4 Observations on the Current State of VCIn our last piece, 6 Emerging Tech Trends for a Post-Covid19 World, we discussed trends that we at Catapult were seeing emerge from the…May 26, 20201May 26, 20201
Jonathan Tower6 Emerging Tech Trends in a Post-Covid-19 WorldOn January 30, the WHO declared COVID-19 (C19) a global health emergency. In the 9 weeks since, the lives of most everyone in the…Apr 10, 20201Apr 10, 20201
Jonathan TowerThe Bull Case for Venture Capital in a coming Bear marketCOVID-19 has now circumnavigated the globe, infecting more than 100k (as of this writing) and killing thousands. Public market equities…Mar 14, 2020Mar 14, 2020
