Pros and cons of VC funding in 2025: what founders think
What’s it like to raise VC funding in 2025 as an African founder? To get a real sense of the current landscape, […]
#NairaLife: He Has Multiple Side Hustles, but He Just Wants a Stable Cash Flow
Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Meta may exit Nigeria
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Happy new week! I read Robert Iger’s autobiography, The Ride of a […]
Digital Nomads: The first-time founders seeking global mobility for a chance at being funded
Victor Daniyan is standing on a stage sweating profusely. Though Morocco is usually humid around this time of the year, the hall […]
Lemfi’s $53 million Series B delivers 29x return for Silverbacks Holdings
When Nigerian remittance startup LemFi closed its $53 million Series B round in January 2025, one of the biggest winners was Sliverbacks […]
TVC launches Nigeria’s first AI multilingual news anchors
TVC News has become the first Nigerian broadcaster to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) news anchors that deliver bulletins in five major local […]
South Africa’s SOLmate doubles users to 100,000 as eWallet surge drives growth
South African fintech startup SOLmate has doubled its active user base over the past year to about 100,000, driven by soaring demand […]
An unusual liquidity event at Arnergy made employees millions of naira
Two months before Arnergy, a Nigerian solar energy startup, raised an additional $15 million in April 2025 to complete its $18 million […]
Cleva launches new feature that rewards users for every USD deposit and Naira transfer to local bank accounts
With Cleva Points, users can now earn redeemable rewards simply by getting paid. Cleva, the fast-growing cross-border payment platform powering freelancers, remote […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenyan banks say no
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Wazzup! We hope you had some time to rest yesterday. If you […]
Kenyan banks reject Central Bank’s new loan pricing model
Kenyan commercial banks have rejected a proposal by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to introduce a new loan pricing model that […]
Why Nigerian banks keep suffering system glitches—and what’s at stake
In recent months, system glitches at some major Nigerian banks have led to customers experiencing issues like incorrect bank deposits and unauthorised […]