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| 14.07.2025 | RIGO Incorporated launches in Lagos to build Africa’s healthcare infrastructure layer | Femi Niyi, Board Chairman, RIGO Inc. and Kayode Odeyinde, Founder and CEO, RIGO Inc., at the official new identity unveiling event of RIGO Inc. recently in Lagos.
NucleusIS Africa, the fast-rising health-focused fintech, has rebranded and r... |
| 21.11.2024 | 49% of Nigerian startups founded in the last 10 years make less than ₦10 million in revenue | Nearly half of venture-backed Nigerian startups founded within the last ten years make less than ₦10 million ($6,000) in annual revenues, according to a new report by TLP Advisory, a venture capital law firm. 49% of startups surveyed in the... |
| 14.11.2024 | Uniting Innovation: The AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2024 | In the heart of Cape Town, a vibrant tapestry of innovation unfolded. The AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2024, held from November 6-8, brought together a diverse crowd of thinkers, creators, and doers. This event was not just a meeting; it was a... |
| 13.11.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #78: Trading Titles & Hats – What drives career switches? | And America’s failed shadowcat experiment.
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| 13.11.2024 | AfriLabs Annual Gatherine 2024: Spotlight on Seven Dynamic Tracks Shaping Africa’s Innovation Landscape | Cape Town, South Africa – The AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2024, held from November 6-8 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre 2 (CTICC 2), was a resounding success, bringing together a diverse network of innovators, thought leaders,... |
| 16.10.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #76: YPIT is a Party with a Purpose | Here’s another community doing exciting things
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| 02.10.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #75: The Reel Deal on Video Assessments | Will you take a video assessment for your dream job?
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| 24.09.2024 | One year in, Bosun Tijani’s critics still struggle to see his vision | Bosun Tijani rates himself highly in his first year as minister of communication, innovation, and digital economy. Is his vision for Nigeria’s digital future resonating?
After being declared the winner of a contentious presidential election... |
| 21.09.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #74: Is Uploaded Intelligence a moonshot goal? | What happens when humans and machines merge?
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| 21.08.2024 | “My Innovation Story” Podcast Launches, Spotlighting Africa’s Innovators | Africa’s innovation scene is brimming with inspiring stories. “My Innovation Story” with Femi Awoniyi, a new podcast launching today, delves into the journeys of the continent’s leading innovators.
Hosted by Femi Awoniyi, an innovation expe... |
| 11.07.2024 | 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – South Africa’s cybersecurity woes | In partnership with
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The One Ring is no longer just fiction, it’s now closer reality.
Yesterday, Samsung launched it’s newest wearable technology, the Samsun... |
| 29.06.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #68: Who’s to blame for “oga-driven” development? | Here’s how to step up your game as a product manager.
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| 12.04.2024 | TechCabal Insights is getting a new website. Here’s why | Our home for research and data on Africa’s digital economy is getting a new look.
For about half a decade, TechCabal Insights has been at the heart of redefining African tech with a mission to support investors, entrepreneurs, tech giants, ... |
| 29.11.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #50: How Jackleen Nnely became a project manager | Lagos traffic made her leave a 13-year career!
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| 22.11.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #49: Mastery v Efficiency: A gaming perspective | Here’s what gaming can teach us about mastery and efficiency.
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| 20.11.2023 | Next Wave: The obsession over unicorns or camels is weird | Cet article est aussi disponible en français
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| 16.10.2023 | Next Wave: Do VCs still believe in VCing? | Cet article est aussi disponible en français
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| 09.10.2023 | TechCabal surpasses 2 million readers as African tech business audience expands: Dive into our impact report | TechCabal’s editors share highlights of the newsroom’s reportorial impact in Q3.
Welcome to our first quarterly editorial letter.
It has been a hectic quarter for startups. The common themes have been mergers and acquisitions, crypto-based ... |
| 15.04.2023 | Africa: Inclusion and Innovation Key to African Media Sustainability | Forced to adapt to the political establishment, and financially beset by Big Data, what is the future of Africa's media?
This year started on a high note for African media with the recent African Media Festival in February. Hundreds of medi... |
| 23.12.2022 | Ask an Investor: Twelve insights from Africa’s top investors in 2022
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | In 2021, we started the Ask an Investor series to help explain why and how investments in companies happen in Africa from the people who make them happen.
This year, I interviewed over 20 investors who shared their thoughts on what investor... |
| 16.09.2022 | Big Cabal Media to unveil Commerce In Africa Outlook report at 2022 Future of Commerce | Pan-African media company, Big Cabal Media, will unveil its first ‘Commerce in Africa’ outlook report at the Future of Commerce 2022 conference in September. The report, which explores how technology affects buying and selling in Africa, th... |
| 17.08.2022 | How to do Cultural Investing in Africa, according to MaC Venture Capital | In 2015, California-based Marlon Nichols left Intel Capital, the corporate venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, where he’d worked for over 4 years, to set out on his own.
So he co-founded Cross Culture Ventures with Troy Carter, a succ... |
| 12.07.2022 | 👨🏿🚀 TechCabal Daily –Half of Safaricom’s profit from M-Pesa | 12 JULY, 2022
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In Nigeria, what do fuel and data have in common? They are both scarce. The scarcity of compensation data makes it challenging for startup founders to hire and retain talent and for tech wo... |
| 23.05.2022 | Klasha partners with TechCabal to produce whitepaper on international e-commerce in Africa | Across the world, digital commerce, or e-commerce as it is more popularly known, has evolved to become a significant driver of global economic transformation, creating new use cases and business opportunities for the industry. Africa is no ... |
| 20.03.2022 | Big Cabal Media has raised $2.3 million in seed funding | Big Cabal Media (BCM), a leading African digital media company, announced a $2.3 million seed funding round, indicating the company’s commitment to continuing to create interesting and credible media products and brands.
Existing investors ... |
| 17.03.2022 | Nigeria: Big Cabal Media, Parent Company of TechCabal and Zikoko, Raises $2.3m Seed Funding | African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of ... |
| 17.03.2022 | Big Cabal Media raises $2.3m to expand its compelling line of digital products | Over decades, the news media landscape has changed dramatically. Checking for news online—whether through Google, social network sites, major newspapers, or local media websites—has become ubiquitous. The widespread use of smartphones also ... |
| 16.09.2020 | Platform Capital invests in leading digital media publisher in Africa, Big Cabal Media, and appoints Dr. Akindele to its board | Lagos, 15th September 2020: Platform Capital (Platform), a leading growth markets investor, is pleased to announce its investment in Big Cabal Media (BCM), a leading digital media publisher in Africa, operating out of Nigeria.
BCM is buildi... |
| 31.07.2020 | Digital Nomads: The social media influencer trying to build a digital nomads community in Bali | If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, the odds are that you’ve come across someone promising to teach you how you can make millions of dollars from dropshipping. 9 times out of 10, that guy lives in Bali and has social media accounts that ... |
| 29.05.2020 | Digital Nomads: From Lagos to Paris, the city where banks show Fintechs how it’s done | Every week, we speak to Digital Nomads about their tech experiences across countries. Our conversations take us from Saudi Arabia to Somaliland, or from Ethiopia all the way to China. Their experiences are often different, but the common th... |
| 22.05.2020 | Digital Nomads: Studying in Famagusta, the smart city without Uber | Last week, Uche, a Nigerian studying in Ukraine shared his story. He answered the question of what to consider when deciding what country to study.
For Victor in this week’s Digital Nomad, deciding to study in Cyprus came down to one reason... |
| 14.02.2020 | Digital Nomads: “Abidjan is a Lagos that works” – A Nigerian living in Côte d’Ivoire | This week, we spoke to a *Ruz, a Nigerian who has made Côte d’Ivoire home but hasn’t cut Lagos off completely.
Every week, I write about Nigeria’s experience in another country, but my surprise is always the same when I find another country... |
| 11.01.2020 | Bankole Oluwafemi, editor-in-chief of TechCabal, leaves Big Cabal Media, the company he founded | Share this article:
Big Cabal Media co-founder, Bankole Oluwafemi on Friday announced that he is leaving the company he started.
Big Cabal Media, the digital media company behind online technology news publication TechCabal, and content pla... |
| 10.12.2019 | No porn or dirty texts: A Nigerian in Saudi Arabia shares his tech culture shock | “Chief, let me text you when I come back from work, there’s no network in the desert.”
That’s the WhatsApp message from *John, who has worked in Saudi Arabia for the last four years. What takes a Nigerian to Saudi Arabia to work in the dese... |
| 09.08.2019 | This September, Join Omobola Johnson and Other Industry Leaders at Techcabal’s Transport and Mobility Townhall | There’s an ongoing mobility revolution across African cities.
After Uber launched its ride-hailing service in Johannesburg in August 2013 with South African footballer Mark Fish as its first passenger in Africa, the number of ride-hailing s... |
| 20.07.2018 | Okada-On-Demand: A Gokada Review | Over the past few weeks, various people have asked me about Max Go and Gokada – two ‘okada-on-demand’ startups operating in select parts of Lagos at the moment. Even in Lagos’ danfos there seems to be a mixture of curiosity and a hint of sk... |
| 01.06.2017 | Ethiopian Government Shuts Down Internet | 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).
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| 06.04.2017 | TechCabal daily: Solo’s smartphones that cost just N4,000 | 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). What’s happening today?
But can Solo’s new partnership with Airtel and Ren Mon... |
| 30.09.2016 | 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... |
| 08.07.2016 | LAN syndicates are investing in three ventures from the Second Lagos Startup DealDay | Lagos Angel Network (LAN) syndicates have picked 3 ventures that pitched at the Second Lagos Startup DealDay that held on June 30, 2016. The ventures will receive funding from four syndicates that participated in the DealDay after a few fin... |
| 27.05.2016 | LAN Syndicates have announced the recipients of the N50M fund from the first Lagos StartUp DealDay | The first Lagos StartUp DealDay was in March and two ventures received a total of N50 million in investment from syndicates at the event. Not many people knew who the recipients were, but today, Lagos Angel Network (LAN), organisers of the ... |
| 15.02.2016 | If you use Slack and are inspired by DJ Khaled, you will love this bot | How sway? Since late last year, record producer, radio personality, and record label exec, DJ “the-guy-you-hear-screaming-‘we-the-best’-on-almost-every-song” Khaled started posting inspirational pictures and videos to his Snapchat account, ... |
| 12.05.2015 | Punch Newspapers Launches Website to Educate Nigerians on Malaria Treatment | Nigeria based news publishing house, Punch Newspapers, has created a website that seeks to dissuade Nigerian from self-medication and direct them on where to get original malaria drugs.
This sure comes in handy considering the report by the... |
| 11.08.2014 | Eleven Nigerian Entrepreneurs Get Accepted Into Ghanaian MEST | Off they go, to Ghana.
Word reaching us is that eight individuals from Nigeria have been selected to participate in the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology’s resident incubation programme.
All the expenses are covered by MEST, fo... |
| - | Big Cabal Media has raised $2.3 million in seed funding | Big Cabal Media (BCM), a leading African digital media company, announced a $2.3 million seed funding round, indicating the company’s commitment to continuing to create interesting and credible media products and brands.
Existing investors ... |
| - | A $1.63 million bounce back | In partnership with
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Do you remember Paxful, that bitcoin marketplace that shut down because all its staff—engineers, compliance team members, and security person... |
| - | 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Ugandan parliament passes Computer Misuse Bill | 9 SEPTEMBER, 2022
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New updates are coming to Android, and it’s more than just a notch or a dynamic bub... |
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To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay, TechCabal brings you three female founders from Bamboo, SendStack, and SHOP F.... |
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Yesterday, we told you about how Kenyan online marketplace Sky.Garden is bouncing back through a $1.63 million acquisition deal with Lipa Lat... |
| - | Nigeria builds out Africa’s future tech-media models | Tom Collins
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While media houses and legacy publications across the world are struggling to stay afloat and remain profitable, Nigerian startups are beginning to build out ... |
