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Francophone Weekly, Newsletters

It’s official; payments are interoperable in WAEMU. Who are the real winners?

Lina Kacyem

9th September 2025
Francophone Weekly, Newsletters

Interopérabilité en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre : une nouvelle ère pour le secteur financier

Lina Kacyem

2nd September 2025
Newsletters, TC Daily

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Riding a multimillion dollar Wave

Emmanuel Nwosu

1st July 2025
Exclusive

Wave raises $137 million in debt to expand mobile money services across Africa

Muktar Oladunmade

30th June 2025
Newsletters, TC Daily

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – LemFi finds its next Pillar

Emmanuel Nwosu

17th June 2025
Opinion

The ‘Big Four’ fallacy: Rethinking African markets

Guest Author

13th September 2024
Startups

Wave is Africa’s only startup on Y-Combinator’s list of top earners

Muktar Oladunmade

2nd May 2024
Funding

YCombinator doubles down on fundamentals as it releases first ever ‘top companies by revenue’ list

Ephraim Modise

7th July 2023
Companies, FinTech

How Wave is navigating the economic downturn with its radical business model

Damilare Dosunmu

5th August 2022
Companies, Logistics & Transport

Kenyan logistics startup Sendy lays off 10% of its staff

Sultan Quadri

2nd August 2022
Companies, Startups

Senegalese unicorn Wave lays off 15% of staff

Sultan Quadri

13th July 2022
Funding, Startups

Wave secures €90 million syndicated loan from IFC and others

Muktar Oladunmade

7th July 2022
FinTech

Wave becomes first non-telco, non-bank to get e-money license in the WAEMU region

Damilare Dosunmu

21st April 2022
Funding

Venture funding in Senegal remains muted despite Wave’s $200m buzz

Michael Ajifowoke

24th December 2021
FinTech

“We weren’t motivated to become a unicorn”: Wave’s West Africa head reflects on startup’s rapid growth

Michael Ajifowoke

18th October 2021
Newsletters, The Next Wave

The Next Wave 🦄🇸🇳

Koromone Koroye

13th September 2021
Newsletters, TC Daily

TechCabal Daily – A Wave of Unicorns 🦄

Timi Odueso

8th September 2021
FinTech

How Wave became Francophone Africa’s first unicorn startup with 1% money transfer fee

Michael Ajifowoke

7th September 2021
Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

What’s next for Wave’s African users after its exit?

Daniel Adeyemi

16th December 2020