mcsqstudio/africa-startup-directory
MC Studio Africa Startup Directory Dataset card for the curated company directory built by MC Studio (Nairobi-based venture studio, Silver IBM Business Partner) for its startup curation and investment-tracking work. Summary 1,475 technology, agri-business and SME companies headquartered in Africa (plus African-founded companies operating from outside the continent). Each record combines a natural-language company_description with structured fields — founding year… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mcsqstudio/africa-startup-directory.
Ship only data.parquet + model card + metadata (auxiliary files kept local)
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Move supporting CSVs to auxiliary/; keep data.csv as the single root dataset
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Add MC Studio Africa Startup Directory dataset (n=1,475)
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