Wave, one of Africa’s most valuable startups, has raised a $137 million debt round to bolster its working capital and drive expansion across existing
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Intron, a Nigerian AI company that provides speech-to-text transcription tools for healthcare workers, is introducing new speech recognition and text-
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Lendsqr grew from a side project to four failed product launches and found product-market fit, twice. If anyone in Nigeria could solve a fintech or cr
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Despite the growth of Africa’s tech ecosystem in the last decade, startups on the continent continue to struggle with being overlooked and misundersto
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For the first time, everyday Nigerian investors surpassed institutional investors in Q1 2024, capturing 1.1% more of capital markets investments than
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Johannesburg is a magnet for Africa’s workforce. Migrants from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, and beyond flock to
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In Kampala, Uganda, on June 19, just past 9 a.m., electric buses rolled through the gates of Kololo Independence Grounds, ferrying investors, policyma
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Chpter, the Kenyan software startup building infrastructure for social commerce, has expanded into 11 more African countries through a deal with finte
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South Africa’s informal trade sector is getting a digital upgrade with LovCash’s latest move to blockchain-powered transactions. The digital payments
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By March 2025, Mubarak Umar had spent a year and a half working as a supplier agent for Sun King, a solar company in Ibadan, western Nigeria, earning
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Releaf Earth, a Nigerian climate-agritech startup, has launched the country’s first operational industrial biochar production facility in Iwuru, Cross
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For most Nigerians, the moment a bank transfer goes awry—money deducted, but no value received—the ordeal begins: emails to customer service, hours on
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Kenya is proposing to scrap tax breaks on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for early-stage startups, a move that risks gutting one of the few in
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When you call a customer care service line, you’re likely to hear from a representative that “this call is recorded for quality purposes.” The promise
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In Lagos, the memory of October 20, 2020, still haunts Daniel Tambee, a Nigerian blockchain developer. That night, at the Lekki Tollgate, military per
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