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Opera News is growing fast in Africa but has a quality problem

Apps, Business, Features

21st January 2021

Seun* is a 55-year-old teacher who uses Opera News to stay informed on current events. She says she just found it on her phone and started using it. Her tech-savvy teenage son, who is listening to our conversation, confirms that it came pre-installed on her android device. She later complains that she’s tired of mostly […]

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Tolulope Ogunsina was an engineer at Amazon, now his startup is helping kids and adults brush their teeth better

My Life In Tech

Edwin Madu

14th April 2021

In 2019, Tolulope was on the Forbes 30 under 30 Technology list, and before co-founding Playbrush, he was an Amazon engineer. He talks to me about his journey, his love for computers and how he finds happiness.

Quro Medical, the South African startup pioneering hospital-at-home services, has raised a $1.1m seed round

Funding, News

Edwin Madu

14th April 2021

With COVID-19 placing a strain on traditional hospitals, the startup’s remote monitoring feature has been instrumental in helping patients stay home and recover without the added risk of possible infections from hospital visits.

MTN is talking up its mobile money business in hopes of a future IPO

News

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

13th April 2021

MTN Group has big ambitions for its mobile money business and is presently considering publicly listing that side of the business in an initial public offering (IPO).

#Akwaaba – Twitter’s first Africa office will be in Ghana

Social Media

Edwin Madu

12th April 2021

Social media giant, Twitter is setting up its first African office and it will be in Ghana. The announcement was made through a tweet by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey where he thanked the president of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo. The tweet also included a link to a post on Twitter’s official blog written by Kayvon Beykpour, […]

‘Wealthy Nigerians trade foreign securities. Low-income earners should be allowed too’ – Kola Aina

Guest Post, Opinion, Policy

Guest Author

12th April 2021

The directive of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued on the 8th of April, 2021 has been met with consternation and a straightforward (but hopefully simplistic) interpretation that the government is out to stifle innovators – again. These perspectives aren’t unfounded, as innovators of all shades have taken a heavy beating lately due […]

Rwandan startup Ampersand raises $3.5M, largest-ever e-mobility investment in sub-Saharan Africa

News

Daniel Adeyemi

12th April 2021

Last week, Ampersand, Africa’s first electric motorcycle company, secured a $3.5 million investment from the Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF). This is the largest ever e-mobility investment by a venture capital fund in Sub-Saharan Africa and could hint at a turning point in African electric transport. Based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ampersand assembles and finances electric motorcycles […]

Electric mobility in Africa could be the next big thing for global investors

Guest Post, Opinion, Renewable Energy

Guest Author

12th April 2021

Africa is home to the fastest-growing population globally, with numbers expected to rise by nearly 50% over the next 14 years, growing from 1.2 billion people today to over 1.8 billion in 2035. As the population increase outpaces economic growth, much of Africa’s youth, who account for most of the population, are moving into urban […]

Appzone raises $10m in Series A to extend its banking technology across Africa

FinTech

Alexander O. Onukwue

12th April 2021

Appzone, a Nigeria-based company that builds technology for banks, has raised $10m in a Series A round. The funding was led by CardinalStone, an investment banking firm in Nigeria. V8 Capital, Lateral Investment Partners, Constant Capital, and Itanna Capital Ventures also participated, the company said. Appzone was founded in 2008 by current CEO Obi Emetarom […]