Startups on Our Radar is a bi-weekly column that highlights emerging startups across Africa taking fresh, unconventional approaches, filling fundament
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Every Thursday, Delve Into AI will provide nuanced insights on how the continent’s AI trajectory is shaping up. In this column, we examine how AI infl
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On August 7, I watched a cobalt-blue Moniepoint point-of-sale (POS) device do something it had never done before. With a few taps on the touchscreen,
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Street Wallet, a South African mobile payment fintech, has raised $350,000 (R6.2 million) in funding at a valuation of $2 million (R35.5 million). The
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Digital lenders in Nigeria now risk fines between ₦50 million and ₦100 million, or 1% of their annual turnover, for unethical conduct and other violat
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When Anil Atmaramani resumed as Antler’s new partner for Africa in 2024, he was looking to make bets that some of the world’s most disciplined, resili
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When Kemi Michael, a corporate compère, attempted to transfer money to her usual PoS agent in late 2024, the attendant had a tip for avoiding an extra
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Wabeh, a Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider, has scaled back operations with a portion of its vendor network as of July 5, as part of a shift to
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It started with curiosity and a handful of conversations in the back seats of ride-hailing vehicles. “That’s where we noticed a fundamental gap in the
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Sehinde Afolayan, founder of logistics platform Haul247, was one of the first founders I interviewed as a journalist for TechCabal. The startup, launc
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South Africa’s fintech space is one of the most developed in Africa. It makes up nearly 40% of the continent’s total fintech earnings. In 2023, Disrup
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When Leon Kiptum left his role at Flutterwave in June, his goodbye post on LinkedIn didn’t read like the end of a chapter; it felt like a gentle turni
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DigiTax, a pan-African e-invoicing firm, has secured technical approval from Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to serve as an Access Poi
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At the fifth edition of Pitch2Win on July 30, a yearly event where aspiring entrepreneurs showcase their ideas and learn from industry experts, Ridwan
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If you’ve ever bought a ticket to an event in Nigeria, chances are that the ticket was purchased on Tix, a 6-year-old company that has grown to become
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At the fifth edition of Pitch2Win on July 30, Iyin Aboyeji, founding partner at Future Africa, and Akio Tanaka, founding partner of Headline Asia, a g
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Two weeks after entering administration in March, Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup Lipa Later co-founder, Eric Muli, tried to raise $5 million
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Afriex, the Lagos- and San Francisco-based money transfer startup, has expanded into Asia’s three biggest remittance markets—China, India, and Pakista
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In a remote part of Zambia, a heavily pregnant 17-year-old named Chipego arrived at a Catholic-run clinic in Monze District, south of Lusaka, with a h
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Despite Africa’s immense economic potential—a combined GDP exceeding $3 trillion and a population of over 1.4 billion—just 17% of its total trade occu
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