At last year’s Moonshot event, I met Seye Bandele, CEO of Nigerian HR tech upstart PaidHR for the first time. He was much taller in person than I imag
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If you’re building a fintech startup in Nigeria, one of the first things you’ll need to figure out is this: what CBN licences do we need to operate le
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The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Marcy Campbell is the Chief Revenue Officer at AppFolio
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Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-marke
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Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-marke
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The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Oji Udezue was most recently Chief Product Officer at T
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South African fintech startup SOLmate has doubled its active user base over the past year to about 100,000, driven by soaring demand for eWallet servi
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Oxygen X Finance Company Limited, the digital lending subsidiary of Access Holdings Plc, disbursed ₦152 million ($95,000) in consumer loans in 2024, m
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Nigerian lending software startup, Lendsqr, is building an artificial intelligence model that analyses borrowers’ voices and faces to determine if the
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The value of mobile money transactions in Kenya dropped sharply over the 12 months to February 2025, falling by 19.6% from KES 790.8 billion ($6.13 bi
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The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Udi Ledergor served as CMO during Gong’s rise from new
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Digital lender Tala has laid off 28 employees from its customer operations team, citing a reduced workload due to fewer loan defaults and a drop in cu
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Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech unicorn, has launched Monieworld, its remittance product that allows UK residents to send money directly from a Monie
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Stitch, a South Africa-based payments infrastructure startup founded in 2021, has raised $55 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding
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Stitch, a South Africa-based payments infrastructure startup founded in 2021, has raised $55 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding
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Umba, a Nairobi-headquartered digital bank with operations in Kenya and Nigeria, has raised a $5 million debt facility to grow its secured lending ope
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PalmPay, the Nigerian fintech with over 35 million users, has launched its first debit card in partnership with Verve, marking a major step in its evo
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Nine years ago, Shola Akinlade, Paystack’s CEO, bet on making online payments frictionless and that bet paid off with a $200 million acquisition by St
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Nigeria recorded the steepest decline in cash transactions to surpass six cash-reliant economies in the past decade thanks to the rapid adoption of di
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When fintechs like Paystack and Flutterwave gained prominence between 2016 and 2019 to disrupt Nigeria’s financial sector, traditional banks had to in
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