startups

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  Ask An Investor

  Moonshot 2025: Asia as a limited partner base, Europe for exits and more of what African VCs discussed

  Muktar Oladunmade

  20th October 2025

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  Agritech, Climate

  Inside Ghana’s Farm.io, where greenhouses shield farmers from climate shocks

  John Adoyi

  20th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  Experts push for new funds, hubs to unlock Africa’s creative potential

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  How APIs are building the backbone of Africa’s financial ecosystem

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  16th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  Too many fundraises, not enough returns: A story of African tech

  Opeyemi Kareem

  15th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  How can founders in Africa build startups that actually scale?

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  15th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  ‘You can’t hustle forever’: Sabi’s Okubadejo calls for systemic thinking among African founders

  John Adoyi

  15th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  Emeka Ajene on the one thing African startups keep getting wrong

  Opeyemi Kareem

  15th October 2025

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  Funding

  Kuunda raises $7.5 million to drive expansion into the Middle East and North Africa

  Opeyemi Kareem

  15th October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Togo’s Gozem expands into mobile money with new fintech platform

  Opeyemi Kareem

  14th October 2025

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  Day 1-1000

  Day 1-1000: How Bunce walked a trust desert to catalyse adoption

  Zia Yusuf

  11th October 2025

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  Startups

  7 African startups transforming health records, human resource, and home care

  Opeyemi Kareem

  10th October 2025

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  Startups

  What do African investors really look for in a pitch deck in 2025?

  Eme Agbor

  10th October 2025

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  Analysis

  How Lagos made more money than 31 Nigerian states combined in 2024

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  9th October 2025

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  Policy

  Nigeria names four startup leaders to national innovation council in Startup Act push

  Frank Eleanya

  6th October 2025

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  Startups

  7 African startups transforming learning, labour, lifestyles, and local trade

  Opeyemi Kareem

  3rd October 2025

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  Day 1-1000

  Koolboks wants to be more than a freezer: Day 1-1000 of Koolboks

  Zia Yusuf

  27th September 2025

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  Startups

  7 African startups powering credit, crypto, creators, and capital

  Opeyemi Kareem

  26th September 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Startups

  Nearly one million Nigerian retail shops are invisible to big brands; Lengo wants to fix that

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  24th September 2025

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  FinTech

  Why Fincra is teaming up with Reap to speed up Africa–Asia transactions

  Opeyemi Kareem

  22nd September 2025

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  Day 1-1000

  “The point of building for Africa is to make sure Africans can afford it” – Day 1-1000 of Axia Africa

  Zia Yusuf

  20th September 2025

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  Startups

  7 African startups reimagining fintech, freight, and forex trading

  Opeyemi Kareem

  19th September 2025

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  Features

  Bonny Island is known for crude oil. This organisation wants it known for tech

  John Adoyi

  18th September 2025

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  Consumer Tech

  How you ran Google ads for the last 20 years is about to change

  Eme Agbor

  16th September 2025

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  Funding

  Africa’s gender funding gap persists; women founders still get just 1 in 10 dollars

  Opeyemi Kareem

  16th September 2025

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  Corrections, Startups

  Correction: 5 startups rethinking money, mobility, music, and more

  Opeyemi Kareem

  12th September 2025

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  Startups

  SefRel Shop’s mission to make it a thing of pride to ‘buy Nigerian’

  John Adoyi

  11th September 2025

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  Mobility

  This Nigerian startup plans to convert 1M vehicles from petrol to gas

  Opeyemi Kareem

  9th September 2025

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  The BackEnd

  Would you save every time your sports team wins a game? Chumz believes so

  Kenn Abuya

  9th September 2025

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  Ask An Investor

  With $61.6 million fund, Accion Ventures doubles down on early-stage fintechs 

  Muktar Oladunmade

  8th September 2025

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  Digital Nomads

  Digital Nomads: This 3x founder lost $18 million building a pan-African content sharing platform 

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  6th September 2025

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  Events

  GITEX Nigeria: Resilience, a word used one too many

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  5th September 2025

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: We should all be skit makers

  Ngozi Chukwu

  4th September 2025

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  My Life In Tech

  Lelapa AI’s Jade Abbott is building AI that speaks African languages

  Sakhile Dube

  3rd September 2025

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  Features

  Update: OurPass’s pivots, frozen deposits, and bid for a second act

  Muktar Oladunmade

  3rd September 2025

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  Assistive Tech, Startups

  Signvrse is pushing for real-time sign language interpretation

  John Adoyi

  21st August 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Features

  In Niger State, AI systems are solving problems that can’t wait

  Frank Eleanya

  20th August 2025

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  Policy

  Lagos plans ₦31 billion innovation fund to back startups, hubs

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  20th August 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Startups

  Using AI, these 5 African startups make assistive tech more accessible

  John Adoyi

  18th August 2025

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Can African banks pick up the startup funding baton?

  Adonijah Ndege

  18th August 2025