One month after Kenya’s Copia Global collapsed in May 2024 under the weight of operational debt and failure to raise fresh funding, its top executives
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When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019, it w
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As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps or dealing with c
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As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps or dealing with c
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On most maps of African venture capital, Uganda does not even make the key. Investors, accelerators, tech reporters—almost everyone has their gaze fix
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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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In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the painful p
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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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In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the painful p
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What do you get when ambition and youthful exuberance meet challenges with actionable solutions? No longer waiting till graduation to make a mark in t
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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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In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the painful p
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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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