Marshmallow’s Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham have become the UK’s second Black unicorn founders, in a significant couple of weeks for the tech sector that saw Zepz's (formerly WorldRemit) founder Ismail Ahmed become the first towards the end of August.
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