One month after Kenya’s Copia Global collapsed in May 2024 under the weight of operational debt and failure to raise…
When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019,…
Ten African fintechs, including Interswitch, Moniepoint, M-KOPA, OPay, and PiggyVest, have been named among the world’s top 300 fintech companies…
As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…
As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…
On most maps of African venture capital, Uganda does not even make the key. Investors, accelerators, tech reporters—almost everyone has…
Wave, one of Africa’s most valuable startups, has raised a $137 million debt round to bolster its working capital and…
Intron, a Nigerian AI company that provides speech-to-text transcription tools for healthcare workers, is introducing new speech recognition and text-to-speech…
Lendsqr grew from a side project to four failed product launches and found product-market fit, twice. If anyone in Nigeria…
Despite the growth of Africa’s tech ecosystem in the last decade, startups on the continent continue to struggle with being…
In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the…
In Kampala, Uganda, on June 19, just past 9 a.m., electric buses rolled through the gates of Kololo Independence Grounds,…
Chpter, the Kenyan software startup building infrastructure for social commerce, has expanded into 11 more African countries through a deal…
South Africa’s informal trade sector is getting a digital upgrade with LovCash’s latest move to blockchain-powered transactions. The digital payments…
In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the…
What do you get when ambition and youthful exuberance meet challenges with actionable solutions? No longer waiting till graduation to make…
Releaf Earth, a Nigerian climate-agritech startup, has launched the country’s first operational industrial biochar production facility in Iwuru, Cross River…
For most Nigerians, the moment a bank transfer goes awry—money deducted, but no value received—the ordeal begins: emails to customer…
In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the…
Kenya is proposing to scrap tax breaks on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for early-stage startups, a move that risks…