👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Canal+ gets approval for MultiChoice takeover
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Happy pre-TGIF. Our editor made a comment about the Canal+ and MultiChoice […]
Top 12 logistics and mobility startup raises of H1 2025
In the first half of 2025, Africa’s broader tech ecosystem saw deal flows—including fundraises, acquisitions, and exits—hit $1.4 billion, per Africa: The […]
Cheaper and cleaner: In UNILAG, electric buses are changing how students move
Abigail Adekunle, a geophysics student at the University of Lagos, is standing in line waiting for a bus; one of a score […]
Cross-border payments as the next frontier for harnessing Africa’s potentialÂ
Not long ago, physical cash was the only viable payment method across Africa. Today, the continent is transforming how money moves, driven […]
My Life in Tech: Federick Abila is building Ghana’s AI future from a dorm room in Tarkwa
It’s a rainy evening in Lagos. I am speaking with 21-year-old Ghanaian innovator Federick Abila, a second-year student of computer science and […]
My Life in Tech: Frederick Abila is building Ghana’s AI future from a dorm room in Tarkwa
It’s a rainy evening in Lagos. I am speaking with 21-year-old Ghanaian innovator Frederick Abila, a second-year student of computer science and […]
BasiGo launches Kenya’s first electric Matatu pilot on intercity routes
Kenyan electric mobility startup BasiGo has launched the country’s first pilot programme for electric matatus (public transport minivans) on inter-city routes, a […]
Weeks after Copia’s collapse, co-founder, top executives quietly registered new startup
One month after Kenya’s Copia Global collapsed in May 2024 under the weight of operational debt and failure to raise fresh funding, […]
Safaricom adds PayPal withdrawals to M-PESA app to court Kenya’s remote workers
Safaricom has added PayPal withdrawals to the M-PESA super app, making it easier for Kenyan users, particularly freelancers and remote workers, to […]
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – A collective collapse
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Happy mid-week. In yesterday’s newsletter, we referenced a news article detailing an […]
Vendy wants to become the go-to payment platform for social commerce in Africa
The rising number of social media users and online shoppers on the continent has fuelled a rise in social commerce. Nigerian startup […]
M-KOPA lawsuit alleges racial disparity in employee equity, firm says claim is baseless
When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019, it was […]