Small Business

Atsur is solving African art’s provenance problem with blockchain

Art—how we create, store, buy, and distribute it—has taken different forms across several centuries. In 2020, as a rare global…

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Weeks after Copia’s collapse, co-founder, top executives quietly registered new startup

One month after Kenya’s Copia Global collapsed in May 2024 under the weight of operational debt and failure to raise…

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M-KOPA lawsuit alleges racial disparity in employee equity, firm says claim is baseless

When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019,…

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The biggest fintech companies in Nigeria (2025)

Nigeria continues to dominate Africa’s fintech landscape in 2025, even as funding slows across much of the continent. In the…

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Stitch acquires Efficacy Payments to become a direct card processor in South Africa

Stitch, the South Africa-based payments infrastructure company, has acquired Efficacy Payments, a digital payments startup with direct access to the…

4 weeks ago

Correction: WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…

4 weeks ago

After processing $9.3 billion in Q1, Kuda relaunches remittance product for non-Nigerian users

Three years after shelving its initial cross-border remittance plans, Nigerian neobank Kuda Technologies has relaunched with a multi-currency wallet that…

4 weeks ago

Visa’s billion-dollar bet positions Francophone Africa as Africa’s next fintech frontier

In the hierarchy of Africa’s fintech narrative, Francophone countries are often second placed. The Anglophone giants—Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa—have…

4 weeks ago

WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…

1 month ago

“Uganda isn’t our side bet”: How Greenhouse Capital is rewriting its rules for Africa

On most maps of African venture capital, Uganda does not even make the key. Investors, accelerators, tech reporters—almost everyone has…

1 month ago