If you’ve ever bought a ticket to an event in Nigeria, chances are that the ticket was purchased on Tix,…
At the fifth edition of Pitch2Win on July 30, Iyin Aboyeji, founding partner at Future Africa, and Akio Tanaka, founding…
Two weeks after entering administration in March, Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup Lipa Later co-founder, Eric Muli, tried to raise $5…
In a remote part of Zambia, a heavily pregnant 17-year-old named Chipego arrived at a Catholic-run clinic in Monze District,…
Despite Africa’s immense economic potential—a combined GDP exceeding $3 trillion and a population of over 1.4 billion—just 17% of its…
You can order hot jollof on Chowdeck and have it at your door before the steam fades. You can order…
Art—how we create, store, buy, and distribute it—has taken different forms across several centuries. In 2020, as a rare global…
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…