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Capital · 2023 Q2 · South Africa

Machankura.

Sending Bitcoin over a dumb phone. $10,000 SAFE.

Role · Seed investor

The situation

Machankura lets people send and receive Bitcoin over basic feature phones via USSD — a real frontier-market product.

The work

What I did.

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    $10,000 SAFE check, in addition to the acting Chairman role.

Outcome

Active investment.

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