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| Feb 10, 2026 | SaaSpocalypse: технологии AI ломают бизнес-модель SaaS? | Когда-то программное обеспечение «съело мир». Теперь Уолл-стрит всерьёз обсуждает другой сценарий: а что, если искусственный интеллект начнет поедать само программное обеспечение — его бизнес-модели, доходность и прибыль?
За несколько дней ... |
| Sep 21, 2025 | South Africa: Deepfakes and South African Law - Remedies On Paper, Gaps in Practice | Deepfakes are forgeries of people's faces, voices and likeness generated through artificial intelligence (AI). They create a serious digital deception. Deepfakes undermine constitutional rights, reduce trust in media and distort fairness in... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | От тележки с интернетом до ИИ Legaltech: четыре цифровых стартапа из Руанды | Продолжаем рассказывать о Руанде, на этот раз — о ее инновационном и IT-секторе. Страну часто называет одним из самых быстрорастущих инновационных хабов субсахарской Африки, хотя из-за низкого старта и небольшой численности населения ей еще... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Как Apple полгода боролась за правку в тексте, но пошла навстречу Индии | Разбираемся, почему Apple изменила один из своих ключевых документов и как с этим связана Индия.
У каждого пиарщика есть материалы-долгострои: сдвигаются сроки релиза, партнеры правят каждую букву/месяцами думают над цитатой. Чем больше так... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Kamereo: A Rising Star in Vietnam's Food Supply Chain | Kamereo, a B2B food sourcing platform in Vietnam, has secured a significant $2.1 million funding boost to revolutionize the country's culinary landscape. Co-led by Reazon Holdings, Quest Ventures, and Thoru Yamamoto, this funding marks a ma... |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Kamereo Raises $2.1M to Expand Food-Sourcing Platform | Vietnam-based B2B food-sourcing platform Kamereo has secured $2.1 million in a pre-Series B round led by Reazon Holdings and Thoru Yamamoto, CEO of Tokyo-listed B2B firm Foodison. Quest Ventures also participated in the funding round.
Foun... |
| Jan 3, 2024 | Funding reaches two-year decline as African startups raise $3.2 billion in 2023 | In 2023, African startups secured $3.191 million in funding. This marks a sharp decline compared to the previous years.
Per our friends at Africa: The Big Deal, a curated funding database, African startups raised $3.4 billion in 2023. At Te... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| Jul 30, 2022 | This Week: Kenya threatens Facebook with suspension | Plus: Hackers want ShopRite to pay for its customers’data.
Editor’s Note
Week 30, 2022
Read time: 5 minutes
In a week-plus, Kenyans will go to the polls in what stands to be one of the most anticipated elections in Africa this year. As elec... |
| Jun 11, 2022 | This week: South Africa fights locusts with AI | Editor’s Notes
Week 23, 2022
Read time: 5 minutes
Hi,
I know we’re not supposed to engage in animal cruelty, 🪲but🪲locusts are doing way to much in South Africa.
In this week’s edition of TC Weekender, one of the stories we’re highlighting e... |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Can An Uptick In M&A Activity Affect The African Tech Ecosystem? | In the myriad of conversations about African tech, mergers and acquisitions aren’t usually leading topics – and understandably so too. The ecosystem is still in its early stages, startups aren’t attractive value-wise as standalone entities ... |
| Jun 8, 2017 | Nigeria’s Paga, MFS Africa in cross-border remittance partnership | Nigeria’s leading mobile payments company, Paga is following up its recent cross-border remittance partnership with TerraPay and MoneyTrans with another one with MFS Africa.
The partnership with MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African fintech com... |
| May 26, 2017 | Philip Ese’s ALAT Report | Good morning, folks… ??
Here is everything interesting in African tech that I found for you guys because I love y’all, but more importantly, I’m getting paid for it, $o…
The big guns.
The maker’s perspective – Philip Ese, from the Alat team... |
| May 23, 2017 | Nigerian Banks Earned N138 Billion in Electronic Payment Charges in 2016 | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
Good morning
According to this Vanguard report, the top ten banks in Nigeria a... |
| May 7, 2017 | EGYPTIAN STARTUPS WIN BIG IN ARAB STARTUP COMPETITION HOSTED IN BAHRAIN | Huge Cash Prizes Won At MITEF Start-up Competition
The tenth MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition (MITEF) was held in the kingdom of Bahrain last month. At the final award ceremony, three Egyptian start-ups took away top prizes, wi... |
| May 7, 2017 | INTRODUCING VIDEO STREAMING FROM SOUTH AFRICA’S DISCOVER DIGITAL | DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ON DEMAND (DEOD)
Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD) is a new product from South African on-demand solutions provider, Discover Digital. The product gives customers access to an array of internet channels and conten... |
| May 5, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Generous Uber | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
https://media.giphy.com/media/3osxYqCoxc03ZaTK9i/giphy.gif Good morning.
1. Ge... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | FIRST FULLY DIGITAL BANK TO BE LAUNCHED SOON IN NIGERIA | The Bank That Will Operate Fully Through an App In Nigeria
Soon to come out in Nigeria, a new and very modern type of bank is set to be released into the market. This bank will not require any physical tellers or even a physical building be... |
| Apr 20, 2017 | TANZANIAN STARTUP WINS 2017 AFIF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD | WHAT IS ECOACT?
A Tanzanian startup by the name of EcoAct has won the 2017 African Finance and Investment Forum (AFIF) Entrepreneurship Award. The environment protecting start up takes away with it a large cash prize along with a year of me... |
| Mar 31, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Mo’ funds, mo’ services | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Major stuff happening…
1. Fintec... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | CLOUD-BASED SOFTWARE FROM GHANA EXPANDS INTO SWEDEN | A TECHNOLOGY THAT IS IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY IN THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY
A cloud-based software developed in Ghana that easily tracks freight consignments from one port to the next, has expanded into Europe, setting up a new office in Sweden.... |
| Mar 14, 2017 | 9 Nigerian internet startups that have been acquired by local and international firms | Share this article:
The acquisition of Nigerian internet startups is a fairly new phenomenon. This is quite understandable, considering that the movement started barely over 7 years ago, with the likes of Wakanow, Jobberman and iROKO as pio... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | Google opens up application for 2017 Launchpad Start program | Share this article:
Following the launch of its first ever Launchpad Start program in Nairobi last year, Google has again opened applications for its second edition.
The Launchpad Start is an accelerator program which aims to empower founde... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Top African technology news for December 15, 2016 | 8. OLX Nigeria has partnered with Computer Warehouse Group to offer its merchants SME resource planning software
The free Small and Medium Enterprise resource planning software (SMERP) was built by Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) and it will... |
| Nov 21, 2016 | Nigerian Startups, Aella Credit and TalentBase have been accepted into 500 Startups’ accelerator program | 500 Startups, a global venture capital seed fund, has selected two Nigerian startups – Aella Credit and TalentBase – into the 19th batch of their seed investments program.
TalentBase is a Human resources management solution platform that wa... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Quality Time: Anibe Agamah on Inye Tablet fame and what went wrong, co-founders relationships, and more | The resurgence of tech startups in Nigeria is a welcome development and it comes with a lot of good side effects. One of the side effects is that we get to have more founders — which means more innovation in the local market. To stand out, ... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | The Nigerian Startup Ecosystem Reference Book | Share this article:
Over the past eight years, the Nigerian technology sector has recorded some level of growth in a silent manner. The recent visit by Mark Zuckerberg to Yaba, Lagos revealed some five to six years of work done by passionat... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Africa Roundup: Zuckerberg’s visit, IBM’s new research center | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | Of funding sprees, low ROIs and massive layoffs: The future of eCommerce in Nigeria | Share this article:
I’m not going to bother myself with big grammar; eCommerce is simply talking about business done over the internet. And I am shocked to report that as at 2013, over 60 million Nigerians were on the internet. These were p... |
| Jun 27, 2016 | So Jumia wants to completely take over? | Share this article:
As has been rife all over the tech scene lately, AIG (Africa Internet Group) the African subsidiary of the German cloning giant Rocket Internet, will be rebranding all of her ventures into Jumia. Huge move isn’t it? It i... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Xiaomi phones are back in Nigeria, and there’s a new startup accelerator in Tunisia | *Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beeeep* The time is 4 o’clock (GMT+1) and you’re reading a daily news roundup curated by the Managing Editors of the African Internet Space. We already shared everything interesting that occurred in the African tech... |
| Dec 24, 2015 | Wakanow acquired Oya.com.ng for $2.5 million, it turns out | Share this article:
It is no longer news that Wakanow acquired online bus ticketing startup, Oya.com.ng earlier in 2015. We know the deal was sealed in August. What wasn’t public information then was how much the acquisition was valued at.
... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | 3 plausible reasons why Nigerian startups are sacking workers massively | Share this article:
Recently we learnt that Dealdey sacked 60% of its workforce, iROKOtv sacked hundreds of its workforce, while Jumia sacked within, or a little over, the range of 300 numbers of its workforce. This is a trend that poses a ... |
| Oct 19, 2015 | It’s EchoVC’s busiest year in Nigeria yet | EchoVC, the stage-agnostic, technology-focused VC fund has been quiet since it first came to Africa in search of investment opportunities in 2012. At the time, local tech press reported EchoVC – which set out from Nigeria – was going to inv... |
| Sep 5, 2015 | 5 Lessons from OLX Nigeria every Startup must try to replicate | Share this article:
I had a handshake with Lola Masha and she convinced me to open my OLX account and I did. In fact, I have created my first “for-sale item” on the platform.
We met last month at the LTV studios, where she, along with her t... |
| Jul 10, 2015 | Friday News Round up: Africa’s Smartest Founders Are In Nigeria For The Weekend | One thousand inaugural entrepreneurs selected for the $100 million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Foundation programme (TEEP) began their two-day bootcamp in Ota, South West Nigeria today and will be in the country till Sunday; it’s a weeken... |
| May 6, 2015 | TechFinancials.co.za wins The 2015 African Blogger Award for Business | |
| Apr 15, 2015 | What Do You Get When IROKOtv Meets Netflix? A Dedicated African Section On Netflix | Share this article:
In 2013, a FastCompany feature piece on Jason Njoku of IROKOtv said, “Iroko’s Jason Njoku Is Creating The Next Netflix In Nigeria“. Maybe that’s what got Netflix’s attention, maybe not. But that piece has certainly prove... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | 7 out of a million undeniable reasons to start a startup in Nigeria today | Share this article:
Yes, I am sure the very first thing that may come to your mind is my bold statement about there being over a million reasons to start a startup in Nigeria. I believe there are more than a million reasons but I will focus... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | A tribute to failed Nigerian startups | Share this article:
There’s a hot new startup in the limelight more often than not — but the hard truth is 90% of technology startups fail. Even companies which make it big out of the gate often lose momentum and shift from a potential powe... |
| Dec 6, 2014 | Eghosa Omoigui On How To Get Half A Million Dollars From Venture Capitalists | As you all know, EchoVC Partners is a Silicon Valley-based early to seed stage venture capital founded by Eghosa Omoigui. At the last DEMO Africa which held on the 25th – 26th of September, Nigeria’s communication technology minister Omobol... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | OMG, Interswitch Is Innovating | I have two words for you that online merchants and certainly developers do not like to see in the same same breath. “Interswitch” and “innovation”.
Believe it or not, Interswitch is innovating.
“How?”, you ask. In short course, Interswitch ... |
| Sep 15, 2014 | Apple Watch: What’s In It For Africa? | After so much media frenzy and feverish anticipation, Apple, during the late hours of Tuesday, finally announced its latest product, the Apple Watch (interestingly not iWatch), alongside the iPhone 6 and 6 plus. It came as a bit of a shocke... |
| Feb 17, 2014 | Konga Opens Up Its Online Marketplace To All Retailers In Nigeria | Last year, they called it Konga Mall and released it to only to a hundred beta testers. This morning, the online store is announcing that their online marketplace is finally out of beta and available to anyone who would like to bring their ... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | Five Things TechCabal Wishes Startups Would Do Differently In 2014 | A lot of you will still be wishing each other happy new year till March, so I figured the middle of January isn’t too late to say so to TechCabal readers.
Before we entered 2014, I asked on Twitter what resolutions startups were making for ... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Disrupt everything: 22 Nigerian startups and problems worth solving | Nigeria’s startup scene is one of the most vibrant on the African continent. Nigerians are innovating in many areas, chasing the next big thing in a country where the audience is abundant and the opportunities are endless.
With an estimate... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Disrupt everything: 22 Nigerian startups and problems worth solving | Nigeria’s startup scene is one of the most vibrant on the African continent. Nigerians are innovating in many areas, chasing the next big thing in a country where the audience is abundant and the opportunities are endless.
With an estimated... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Why Is Nigeria’s ICT Minister Going To Silicon Valley Next Week? | Nigeria’s ICT minister is indeed working. Really. After a close shave with the federal cabinet axe, Omobola Johnson has every reason to move fast and consolidate on the extra time she’s got on the clock. So next week, she will be flying. To... |
| Jul 27, 2013 | Re Tiketmobile – How Are Startups Supposed To Breathe With No Air? | Celestine wrote about how grant money isn’t enough to get a startup to cruising speed, and the story of his bus startup is the unfortunate analogy he employs. The summary — the $5k grant Tiketmobile got from the Tony Elumelu Foundation, via... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | 10 Africans Who Founded Million-Dollar Internet Companies | The number of millionaires springing up from digital ventures has grown tremendously in the past two decades, as the world increasingly embrace the potential of knowledge technologies, information and social media to produce economic benefi... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Hitler Reacts To News That Nigerians Still Compare Konga To Jumia | According to this spoof video, Hitler is mad, and perhaps rightly so. That you all keep comparing Jumia to Konga. What’s wrong with all of you? Afterall, Jumia has now raised close to $70 million in funding. They are currently building a 90... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | Why I Hate Interswitch Less, And Lessons In User Experience | I haven’t talked about my friends at Interswitch for a while. My very good friends, they are. Really.
We’ve gotten along famously after my infamous “disrupt Interswitch” article on TechLoy, and I’ve had stimulating conversations with a coup... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Keep Calm And Join The (Tech) Cabal | 3 weeks, 14 posts, 3k plus views and 51 comments later…
I’ve been posting links to this place for a few weeks now. Quite a few people that follow me figure they know what’s going on. But I think it’s time I explained what this is, what I’m ... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Western Union, VTN To Launch Mobile Payment Service In Nigeria | Global payment solution provider The Western Union Company, in partnership with leading Nigerian payment operator Virtual Terminal Network (VTN), have launched a new transfer service that allows subscribers in Nigeria use their mobile phone... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | Nigerian Gaming Company Raises $250k Via Venture Capital Investment | Kuluya, a computer game start-up from the bustling city of Lagos has reportedly positioned to change the global perception of Africa through African-themed online and mobile games.
The company which is headed by an animation maestro Chris O... |
| EGYPTIAN STARTUPS WIN BIG IN ARAB STARTUP COMPETITION HOSTED IN BAHRAIN | Huge Cash Prizes Won At MITEF Start-up Competition
The tenth MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition (MITEF) was held in the kingdom of Bahrain last month. At the final award ceremony, three Egyptian start-ups took away top prizes, wi... |
| Nigeria’s Paga, MFS Africa in cross-border remittance partnership | Nigeria’s leading mobile payments company, Paga is following up its recent cross-border remittance partnership with TerraPay and MoneyTrans with another one with MFS Africa.
The partnership with MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African fintech com... |
| TANZANIAN STARTUP WINS 2017 AFIF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD | WHAT IS ECOACT?
A Tanzanian startup by the name of EcoAct has won the 2017 African Finance and Investment Forum (AFIF) Entrepreneurship Award. The environment protecting start up takes away with it a large cash prize along with a year of me... |
| CLOUD-BASED SOFTWARE FROM GHANA EXPANDS INTO SWEDEN | A TECHNOLOGY THAT IS IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY IN THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY
A cloud-based software developed in Ghana that easily tracks freight consignments from one port to the next, has expanded into Europe, setting up a new office in Sweden.... |
| FIRST FULLY DIGITAL BANK TO BE LAUNCHED SOON IN NIGERIA | The Bank That Will Operate Fully Through an App In Nigeria
Soon to come out in Nigeria, a new and very modern type of bank is set to be released into the market. This bank will not require any physical tellers or even a physical building be... |
| INTRODUCING VIDEO STREAMING FROM SOUTH AFRICA’S DISCOVER DIGITAL | DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ON DEMAND (DEOD)
Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD) is a new product from South African on-demand solutions provider, Discover Digital. The product gives customers access to an array of internet channels and conten... |
