startups

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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

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  Delve into AI, Startups, Venture Capital

  What do investors want to see in African AI startups?

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  14th August 2025

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  Startups

  Antler selects 24 founders to join inaugural cohort

  Faith Omoniyi

  13th August 2025

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  FinTech

  South African fintech startups to watch in 2025

  Sakhile Dube

  8th August 2025

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  Delve into AI

  These 8 AI startups from Africa have raised over $1 million this year, Egypt takes the lead

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  7th August 2025

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Insiders covering insiders

  Fuad Lawal

  4th August 2025

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  Events, Startups, Venture Capital

  Lagos to Tokyo: Global startup lessons from Iyin Aboyeji and Akio Tanaka

  Ngozi Chukwu

  1st August 2025

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  News

  AfriLabs backs 280,000 entrepreneurs, bets big on Africa’s $1 trillion digital future

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  24th July 2025

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  The BackEnd

  Vendy wants to become the go-to payment platform for social commerce in Africa

  Faith Omoniyi

  22nd July 2025

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  FinTech

  Moniepoint, PiggyVest, M-KOPA, Interswitch named among world’s top 300 fintechs by CNBC

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th July 2025

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  My Life In Tech

  My Life in Tech: Benita Riagbayire’s journey from dog blogger to a tech unicorn marketer 

  Ngozi Chukwu

  16th July 2025

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  Funding

  Village Capital taps local partners to deploy $4 million fund for early-stage African startups

  Opeyemi Kareem

  15th July 2025

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Failed startups leave us richer in some ways

  Ngozi Chukwu

  14th July 2025

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  Day 1-1000

  “This is my life’s work, I’m not going anywhere”: Day 1-1000 of Fertitude

  Faith Omoniyi

  12th July 2025

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  Ask An Investor

  Ask an Investor: Africa’s new-crop of investors have a few things to teach the continent

  Muktar Oladunmade

  7th July 2025

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  Funding

  Kenya’s BuuPass secures undisclosed fresh investment from Yango Ventures

  Opeyemi Kareem

  7th July 2025

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  Features

  How a thyroid cancer diagnosis birthed Egypt’s leading e-pharmacy platform

  Editor

  30th June 2025

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave

  Next Wave: Are African innovators playing the right game?

  Guest Author

  23rd June 2025

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  Day 1-1000

  How Jordan Belonwu taught Nigerian startups to dress with soul: Day 1-1000 of Belonwus

  Faith Omoniyi

  14th June 2025

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  Startups

  15 Student-Led Startups Solving Real-World Problems

  Opeyemi Kareem

  12th June 2025

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  Startups, The BackEnd

  The Backend: Why your refunds take forever and how Recital is fixing it

  Faith Omoniyi

  10th June 2025

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  Events

  How Nigerian founders are de-dollarising their startups

  Ngozi Chukwu

  5th June 2025

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  Startups

  Nigerians have tried and failed to curb dangerous policing; can a blockchain tool help? 

  John Adoyi

  3rd June 2025

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  Startups

  Startups on Our Radar: 10 African startups rethinking ride-hailing, credits, and banking no one’s talking about yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  29th May 2025

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  Startups

  10 African startups opening markets, cutting CO2 & seafarming no one’s talking about yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  15th May 2025

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  Startups

  South African fintechs Paymenow, TymeBank, Omnisient make FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list

  Sakhile Dube

  14th May 2025

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  Features, Long Reads, Startups

  This SaaS company wants Nigerian & African tailors to ditch ‘paper and pen’ operations

  Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

  10th May 2025

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  FinTech

  South Africa’s SOLmate doubles users to 100,000 as eWallet surge drives growth

  Sakhile Dube

  2nd May 2025

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  Startups

  In a sparse fintech landscape, two new startups prepare to make their mark in Botswana 

  Sakhile Dube

  1st May 2025

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  Startups

  Africa’s most interesting startups you haven’t heard of—yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  23rd April 2025

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  Startups

  South Africa’s Zimi secures $320,000 to test turning EVs into power stations

  Sakhile Dube

  17th April 2025

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  Features, Startups

  Ghana’s Affinity Africa wants you to carry a full-fledged bank in your pocket

  Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

  14th April 2025

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  News

  Kenyan and Nigerian SMEs, startups hit as US pulls $51 million in funding

  Adonijah Ndege

  8th April 2025

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  Newsletters, TC Daily

  👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Vendease puts payroll on a diet

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  19th March 2025