Abraham Augustine

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Scale is perspective

  Abraham Augustine

  4th November 2024

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  The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Innovation theatre

  Abraham Augustine

  29th January 2024

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  News

  Exclusive: Twiga, Incentro agree to renegotiate terms of contentious $261k debt

  Abraham Augustine

  23rd January 2024

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Trading second-hand shares in African startups does not make money anymore. That’s good?

  Abraham Augustine

  22nd January 2024

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  Venture Capital

  Exclusive: How Timbuktoo, the UNDP-backed $1bn innovation fund will work

  Abraham Augustine

  18th January 2024

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  Regulation

  Nigerian regulators have declared open season on business. It’s already causing chaos

  Abraham Augustine

  15th January 2024

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Local tech IPOs are not the answer… yet

  Abraham Augustine

  15th January 2024

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  News

  Exclusive: Wasoko and MaxAB to cut overlapping workforce as merger talks advance

  Abraham Augustine

  8th January 2024

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  Companies

  Twiga Foods CEO resigns from company’s board one month after announcing a half-year sabbatical

  Abraham Augustine

  5th January 2024

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  A Next Wave of 2023’s Next Waves

  Abraham Augustine

  25th December 2023

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  Companies, Ecommerce

  Wasoko and MaxAB say merger will create a clear e-commerce leader with tens of millions of runway

  Abraham Augustine

  23rd December 2023

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  Companies

  Marketforce CEO says Pezesha’s liquidation suit is premature

  Abraham Augustine

  19th December 2023

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  Ecosystem, Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Tides, tsunamis and a slow-motion return to hard things

  Abraham Augustine

  18th December 2023

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  Companies, Ecommerce

  Court drama over Twiga Foods’ lingering cloud service debt

  Abraham Augustine

  5th December 2023

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  FinTech

  Exclusive: Nigerian SME lender Lidya shutters European business

  Abraham Augustine

  5th December 2023

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  FinTech

  This fintech is persuading wealthy Africans to turn idle cash into loans for startups

  Abraham Augustine

  30th November 2023

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  Venture Capital

  EchoVC has a $2.5m fund and it’s not for fintech startups

  Abraham Augustine

  28th November 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Venture capital is undergoing a reset but no one is changing

  Abraham Augustine

  27th November 2023

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  Banking

  Nigeria’s largest lender wants to expand to Asia

  Abraham Augustine

  23rd November 2023

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  Companies, Logistics & Transport

  Jetstream, Ghana’s leading e-logistics startup is betting on its export loan business for growth

  Abraham Augustine

  21st November 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: The obsession over unicorns or camels is weird

  Abraham Augustine

  20th November 2023

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  Regulation, Startups

  Tanzania’s NALA wants to make Rwanda a settlement hub for East Africa

  Abraham Augustine

  18th November 2023

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  Ecommerce

  Copia, Kenya’s offline e-commerce king, wants more customers to order from its mobile app

  Abraham Augustine

  15th November 2023

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  Ecosystem, Events

  This Swedish non-profit has big dreams for tech startups in Kigali

  Abraham Augustine

  13th November 2023

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  Venture Capital

  Norrsken22 raises $205 million to back high-growth companies in Africa

  Abraham Augustine

  3rd November 2023

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  Newsletters, Telecoms, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Africa’s mobile revolution has hit a plateau

  Abraham Augustine

  31st October 2023

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  Cloud Computing, Enterprise, News

  Africa’s cloud market is small but growing fast, and everyone wants a slice

  Abraham Augustine

  26th October 2023

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  Ecosystem, Events

  GITEX highlighted Dubai’s ambition to be a global technology hub. But the city needs a deeper Africa-strategy

  Abraham Augustine

  23rd October 2023

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  The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Rewriting the venture capital “theory-of-everything”

  Abraham Augustine

  23rd October 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Do VCs still believe in VCing?

  Abraham Augustine

  16th October 2023

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  News, Telecoms

  Exclusive: Meta-backed 45,000km subsea cable to land in two Nigerian locations in November

  Abraham Augustine

  11th October 2023

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  Moonshot, News

  Meta offers $500,000 to projects that use its open-source AI model

  Abraham Augustine

  11th October 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Africa’s investors have their work cut out for them

  Abraham Augustine

  25th September 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: A modern retail wave is building up across Africa

  Abraham Augustine

  18th September 2023

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  Ecosystem, Startups

  Your favourite tech startup wants to go public; it may make everyone involved unbelievably liquid

  Abraham Augustine

  15th September 2023

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  FinTech, Funding

  Anchor closes $2.4 million to scale banking-as-a-service for African businesses

  Abraham Augustine

  4th September 2023

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  Agritech, News

  Tingo Group waves aside Hindenburg allegations as it announces ~$1 billion in H12023 revenue

  Abraham Augustine

  1st September 2023

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  FinTech, Mobility, Startups

  Ugandan fintech Asaak acquires FlexClub Mexico as it expands to Latin America

  Abraham Augustine

  31st August 2023

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  Ecosystem, Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: The Ethiopian miracle has been waiting too long

  Abraham Augustine

  28th August 2023

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  FinTech, Funding, News, Startups

  LemFi raises $33 million to bring free remittance payments for global migrants

  Abraham Augustine

  24th August 2023