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2022 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.

9 min readJan 24, 2022

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2022 Is The Year Emerging Markets VC Comes Of Age. Here’s Why:

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How 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…

8 min readJul 9, 2021

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How the Creator Economy is Helping Dismantle ‘Old Media.’

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The Coming Post-Pandemic Economic Boom

From Kansas City to Kuala Lumpur, there is now a palpable sense that much of the world, with some unfortunate exceptions in India, Japan…

5 min readMay 28, 2021

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The ‘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…

8 min readMar 22, 2021

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The ‘Series A Gap’ in VC is real and widening. Here’s why…

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VC 3.0 and the democratization of venture capital

Steve Case, founder of AOL, and early evangelist of ‘rise of the rest’ cities, posited recently in an interview that we are now living in…

8 min readApr 28, 2021

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4 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…

6 min readDec 30, 2020

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4 Expectations for Tech and VC in 2021.

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Silicon 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…

10 min readOct 30, 2020

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Silicon Valley’s 70-year dominance in tech is ending…and that’s good for tech.

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4 Observations on the Current State of VC

In our last piece, 6 Emerging Tech Trends for a Post-Covid19 World, we discussed trends that we at Catapult were seeing emerge from the…

6 min readMay 26, 2020

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6 Emerging Tech Trends in a Post-Covid-19 World

On January 30, the WHO declared COVID-19 (C19) a global health emergency. In the 9 weeks since, the lives of most everyone in the…

9 min readApr 10, 2020

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The Bull Case for Venture Capital in a coming Bear market

COVID-19 has now circumnavigated the globe, infecting more than 100k (as of this writing) and killing thousands. Public market equities…

9 min readMar 14, 2020

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The Bull Case for Venture Capital in a coming Bear market

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Jonathan Tower

Jonathan Tower

Jonathan (@jonathan_tower) is Founder and Managing Partner at Catapult, a global early stage venture firm with assets in multiple geographies.

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