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Voting out Elon Musk [Read this online](=.EU23hlQqIuZtVK96dRXNX67QDbwM2CpKhExNhFRe5MU) [TC Daily Logo] 20 DECEMBER, 2022 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH [Flutterwave Logo] Good morning 🌞 Tweeters do not like their new landlord, Elon Musk. Well, most of them don’t. They disagree with his [leadership style](=.St28nDujU6vCNhHEr1tISk5OuCqgf7AIM7Vr5ousix4) and [work culture](=.Ddxvzs_hbzhL5Y4ellMdzMVgmp16INQhtRnCDUarhFM), and do not appreciate his plans for the social media platform. He has been venomously criticised and [booed](=.s0OLfZfjIIdtiifA1XQVKBYVTwVIE2k9HSIQPvsNM-I), and more recently, voted against. On Sunday evening, Musk [launched a poll](=.tgtWSiSf3OkbUfzR2CXAmpYkK0ezfl6_EGVE6do7-Os) asking if he should step down as head of Twitter, and more than 17.5 million people responded. 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In today's edition - [Crypto Market](#CryptoMarket) - [Editor’s note: Ventures Platform closes its oversubscribed fund](#Story1) - [ARM Labs Lagos Techstars accelerator appoints new MD](#Story2) - [Bitcoin Killer co-founder pleads guilty to $4 billion scam](#Story3) - [Opportunities](#Opportunities) - [Refer a friend](#Referall) CRYPTO MARKET =.BRiUkCXeErqRFPboKu9k4TW7M4WQ7dgLTwnCzE4RuYE Bitcoin $16,726 + 0.16% Ether $16,726 + 1.04% BNB $247 + 0.12% FTX Token $1.05 + 0.12% Name of the coin Price of the coin 24-hour percentage change Source: CoinMarketCap * Data as of 05:25 AM WAT, December 20 , 2022. [WhatsApp](=.avrPytrZ3M3ftMH-XDBpalbPfI8_lI4TTjBgj-M34D0) [Twitter](=.p1hXx52Elh7mWB40inYQCCPpPh9g8femV8cnQMG39aY) [LinkedIn](=.3NeJv0MtHM4zUta-y4rT8_UepaajY7eADmkXczp1ECA) [Facebook](=.Kadw74x_rV6rx5BXvUOw7tE0v1a9HgVSiWf1y2vvvwo) [Email](mailto:info@example.com?&subject=&body= VENTURES PLATFORM CLOSES ITS FUND AT $46 MILLION =.7SEyhP-1VFV-fQKZ49TcXQVkMbi-HuingCrMHwEqw-Q Image source: CEO Business Africa Editor’s note: In the [TC Daily edition](=.DR1I5jIfsGeY5GbeAjPx573Wht825A7M_ma3FMtq5qg) we sent out to you on Friday, December 16, we reported that [Ventures Platform](=.CcDS3OBhmE9QCLiBF0HQFPOGXOEG8-G4Bxp0ne1Muwk), an early-stage, Africa-focused VC firm, closed an early-stage and intercontinental fund at $40 million. That information was incorrect. The fact is that $40 million was Ventures Platform’s initial target, but the fund was oversubscribed by its final close, reaching $46 million instead. The investment saw participation from Standard Bank, the International Finance Corporation, British International Investment, A to Z Impact, Proparco with FISEA, AfricaGrow, and HNIs. About Ventures Platform [Ventures Platform](=.-j4XGspR3G-8lWrvfgfyqIRu4G3JEfwjgi2RRqrccE0) was launched in 2016 by [Kola Aina](=.N0ukXS27AUUbdFSaoA3UtNMT0r0VFVlcBPnYcyzVRK0), and it has made about 81 investments in sectors such as fintech, insurtech, health tech, edtech, agritech, enterprise SaaS, digital infrastructure plays, and digital talent accelerators. The majority of these investments are pre-seed and seed, but it also now issues Series A cheques to its portfolio companies, some of which can directly access follow-on capital (Series B and above). Some of the [companies in Ventures Platorm’s portfolio](=.Ix877QfcS8d2JSJfQhFgvegivvLt4-IE-sKCyQLgj_U) include PiggyVest, Marketforce, Reliance HMO, Mono, PayHippo, Mono, SeamlessHR, Tizeti, Printivo, and Nomba. 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The accelerator programme is the brainchild of a partnership between global startup accelerator Techstars and Lagos-based innovation ARM focused on helping fintech and proptech startups that serve the African market. [Solebo](=.y_0sW5rFng9Pn1vyB8pl3HAof4xEYU-ewPujrDb572A) holds an executive MBA with distinction from London Business School and a BSc Hons in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining the team at Techstars, she worked as an Investment Associate at Goldman Sachs, a strategy consultant at [Roland Berger](=.gPZTIwQxTjc8vJtqjxOSIQ347rFziF9GlcQLQgc7b9c) and co-founded [Movemeback](=.L7K3gOchX9zEaTpuKVxWoj5ie4eCTCuIXWi0YLm1bBM) in 2014, where she worked for eight years before joining the team at Techstars. [Solebo](=.aObPGjueHhqVH5JLtXd2inZJEJK2h1-un9v4JnutKE4) has been hired to lead the accelerator programme which is due to commence its inaugural three-month cohort in January 2023. 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ONECOIN’S CO-FOUNDER PLEADS GUILTY TO $4 BILLON SCAM =.tjSNVZulP_t3Ak2Iq7D-G1pdgyChnhoC4A8g2zQuz6Q Image source: CoinDesk In 2014, two co-founders, Ruja Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, told the world that they’d built [OneCoin,](=.BAyFeqBTOXEznRIVIqeaN2EZ4hoEJYjoIACMb6OkLRM) a cryptocurrency which would rival—or “kill bitcoin”. They lied. What they actually built was a centralised currency, which, in reality, fell short of what cryptocurrency is. The “coin” was neither mined through computers nor did it have a public or verifiable blockchain. According to the prosecutors, the operators arbitrarily fixed the coin’s price, before finally pulling the plug and conning its global user base of $4 billion. Eight years after the big loot, Greenwood, one of the co-founders, has pled guilty in a US court and is set to spend 2023 in prison. The biggest scam in history? Probably. [US Attorney Damian Williams](=.A4Q93kHuPtCj2FLX8_T1qk9rsh8KQVhmq_r5AGQ0nn8) and [The Times](=.56flTUI-ZzvzBtuOvq6CRg0IGVtJ9vwtowkvmD49wgA) think it is one of many big scams in history. OneCoin operated as both a pyramid scheme and Ponzi scheme, and it survived by paying early investors with money it obtained from newer ones. For the past four years, OneCoin has been under the radar of international law enforcement agencies, and major arrests have been made in connection to the case, including that of Ruja Ignatova's brother, Konstantin Ignatov, who pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in 2019. Konstantin Ignatov remains at large today, having etched her name in [Europol](=.37v-nLlE-6AmtUfjgnvQ7YYfplECneK_PJWl7dOWo3Q)’s "Europe's Most Wanted" list, and the FBI’s list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Greenwood, 45, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. 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