| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.09.2022 | 60 African startups receive $4 million equity-free funding from Google | Earlier today at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Google announced that 60 African startups have been selected for the second cohort of its Google for Startups Black Founders Fund.
Each of the selected startups will receive support in t... |
| 06.04.2022 | Some competition for fintech | Share this article:
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According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13% from 2020 to 2030. This is faster than the average for all occupations.... |
| 01.04.2022 | Grocery shopping with the community | Share this article:
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It’s Friday, a new month, and I hope you’ve had a productive and satisfying week. This week has been a mixed one for Nigerians, especially for residents of Kaduna. First, terrorists attacked the state’s lone... |
| 15.03.2022 | $105 million to Moove across emerging markets | Share this article:
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Time was when funding announcements in Africa hovered around the $1 million mark. These days, a typical week has at least one startup announcing over $100 million.
Speaking of startups, last Friday, we hoste... |
| 09.02.2022 | Building tech for the dead | Share this article:
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It’s less than a week to arguably the most provocative celebration in the world – Valentine’s day. By this time, you’ve definitely seen enough valentine packages to last you a lifetime. My sincere condolence... |
| 28.01.2022 | Using its credit analytics solution, Periculum wants to improve financial inclusion for Nigerians | Share this article:
After Amirah graduated from the Obafemi Awolowo University, she found it difficult to get a job despite her second class upper grade in economics. Six months into her search, she was getting frustrated. While hanging out... |
| 08.12.2021 | MainOne’s acquisition, Flow’s solution for real estate, and HAVAIC’s plan for African entrepreneurs | Share this article:
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Today we’re discussing:
MainOne’s impending acquisition
How Flow is automating real estate advertising
How HAVAIC invests in African startups Equinix is in talks to acquire MainOne
In what is probably the bigge... |
| 06.12.2021 | The Next Wave: Can crypto solve Nigeria’s remittance problem?🤔 | Source: TechCabal
December 5th 2021
The Next Wave provides a futuristic analysis of BizTech and innovation in Africa. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox on Sundays at 3 PM (WAT).
There are 1.7 million Nigerians living outside N... |
| 12.08.2021 | Rooomxix – Nigerian Streetwear brand raises $1,500,000 led by Patricia to facilitate nationwide expansion. | The fashion industry in Nigeria plays an important cultural role and contributes significantly to the country’s economy. Many of the component cultures of Nigeria dress in ways that are unique to their tribal society and customs. However, w... |
| 09.03.2021 | Watch out Jumia Food, Bolt is launching a food delivery service in Nigeria | The Estonian mobility startup, Bolt, is making a play for food delivery in Nigeria and at the moment, is trying to hire a business and sales manager for that arm of its business.
In a job ad seen by TechCabal, Bolt stated, “we are launching... |
| 10.02.2021 | How Nigeria’s central bank could reverse its cryptocurrency policy | It is possible to over-analyse decisions and attempt to decrypt rhyme and reason where there is none.
Football fans and pundits dissect every top team’s defeat as a crisis. Film buffs are guilty as well: I lost my voice defending Taraji P. ... |
| 22.01.2021 | Wave Out, OZÉ In: How a Ghana-based fintech wants to change SME financing | Small and medium businesses across Africa often have a hard time getting loans; OZÉ, a Ghana-based fintech startup, wants to change that.
In Nigeria, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 96% of businesses and 84% of employment. T... |
| 26.11.2020 | The BackEnd: Direct debits that “bounce” are a problem, but what’s a fair penalty? | The BackEnd explores the product development process in African tech. We take you into the minds of those who conceived, designed and built the product; highlighting product uniqueness, user behaviour assumptions and challenges during the p... |
| 11.09.2020 | First virtual Google for Startups Accelerator Africa graduates announced | The first virtual class of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa has announced its 20 graduates which are from seven different countries across the continent.
20 startups from seven different countries have graduated from the prestigious ... |
| 11.09.2020 | First virtual Google for Startups Accelerator Africa graduates announced | The first virtual class of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa has announced its 20 graduates which are from seven different countries across the continent.
20 startups from seven different countries have graduated from the prestigious p... |
| 28.08.2020 | Explainer: Why Nigeria’s Central Bank has anchored electricity bills collection on banks | None of Nigeria’s 11 electricity distribution companies are profitable businesses. None has reached breakeven point.
From the privately-owned ones spread across 8 states and the Federal Capital, to Yola Electricity Distribution Company whic... |
| 29.07.2020 | The long road to paywalls in Nigerian media | The Nigerian media space has been slow to come to the conversation about paywalls and revenue. But these conversations are now happening as some newspapers think about the future.
Nigeria’s traditional print newspapers have all but faded fr... |
| 20.07.2020 | Seller is the little known player taking on Flutterwave and Paystack for social commerce | In June 2020, Paystack launched Paystack commerce and became the latest company in the fintech space to roll out a social commerce product in the last six months. Flutterwave joined the party in May.
Both companies caught the headlines. But... |
| 14.07.2020 | How Ekiti, one of Nigeria’s smallest states, is planning a ‘knowledge economy’ to rival Lagos | Sola Olubayo* got fed up and set out for Lagos without telling her mum.
After graduating from Ekiti State University (EKSU) with a degree in Computer Science, the best ‘tech’ job she found was at a bootstrapping shop that built WordPress si... |
| 29.06.2020 | A tech lifeline for events in Africa’s $31 billion fashion industry | Model castings, backstage rush, lights, cameras, runway, the US$31 billion African fashion industry (PDF) is always agog almost all year round with vibrant fashion events, big and small.
This year has been unprecedented for physical activit... |
| 28.04.2020 | Nigeria’s Stears raises $600k from Omidyar Group’s Luminate, other investors | UPDATE (8 May 2020): We had it initially that Luminate led this round. However, A Luminate representative subsequently contacted Ventureburn to point out that the investor was merely a participant in the raise. We have corrected the headlin... |
| 28.04.2020 | Nigeria’s Stears raises $600k from Omidyar Group’s Luminate, other investors | UPDATE (8 May 2020): We had it initially that Luminate led this round. However, A Luminate representative subsequently contacted Ventureburn to point out that the investor was merely a participant in the raise. We have corrected the headlin... |
| 22.04.2020 | Nigerian media company, Stears raises $600,000 seed round funding | Stears, the Nigerian media company that operates Stears Business, has raised $600,000 seed funding.
The funding came from undisclosed Nigerian investors with participation from Luminate, a philanthropic organisation founded by the Omidyar G... |
| 22.04.2020 | Nigerian media startup, Stears raises $600k seed to build Africa’s Bloomberg | Share this article:
Stears, a digital media and information startup known for providing access to high-quality information in Nigeria, has raised a seed investment of $600,000.
The seed round was led by a Nigerian-based fund with participat... |
| 14.10.2019 | How a proposed bill could increase internet costs in Nigeria | Nigerians face the possibility of a new tax on electronic communications which is already being levied in Ghana. The Communications Service Tax bill was championed by the former communications minister Adebayo Shittu and thrown out by the N... |
| 10.10.2019 | Why are Nigerians reluctant to pay for digital content? | On the WhatsApp group of a book club, the admin announces the book for the month and one of the participants asks if anyone has a free pdf version they can send.
Someone replies: “Buy books, authors need to eat.”
And the participant respond... |
| 10.10.2019 | Just like Airbnb, Spleet is providing flexible rent experiences for accommodation seekers | Share this article:
With a population of 24.6 million people, the city of Lagos is a difficult place to find an affordable apartment.
Anyone who goes through the trouble of finding one is then faced with the challenge of rent — which, more ... |
| 09.10.2019 | A case for mobile voting as an option in the Nigerian electoral process | Share this article:
It’s 7 p.m. on Sunday October 6, 2019 and millions of people across Nigeria and Africa are tuned in to Africa Magic Family. It is Day 99 and season finale of the fourth edition of the widely popular TV reality show Big B... |
| 20.09.2019 | What is really going on with Nigeria’s new VAT and electronic processing fees? | The news cycle in Nigeria has been dominated lately by several regulations introduced by varying financial institutions. First, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) announced a new 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) on all online transactions fr... |
| 07.09.2019 | Nigerian short-term lenders face uncertain future as Google cracks down | In what has been described as a move to curb predatory lending, Google has updated its Google Play developer policies and warns that loans requiring payment in full in 60 days or less will soon be banned.
Predatory lending refers to loan pr... |
| 08.08.2019 | Proposed five percent tax on e-commerce transactions could hinder growth | In a recent interview, Babatunde Fowler, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), disclosed that his agency is considering imposing a new tax specifically for e-commerce.
The plan is to deduct a five percent value added ta... |
| 02.05.2019 | Upholding Human Rights with Low-Tech Innovation | On December 10, 1948, at the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was drafted. The 30-point document has become a guide for humanity to treat each other with dignity and as deserving of the be... |
| 03.04.2019 | What Happens Next? A Recap of the Tech Women Lagos Portrait Series and Exhibition | The technology industry wasn’t always a boys’ club. Sub-sectors like software programming were akin to what nursing is today; very female-centric. How gender is now distributed in the technology sector belies this history. Nonetheless, ther... |
| 14.09.2018 | Advancements In Road Building Technology May Be The Intervention Nigeria’s Roads Need | Photo: Dominik Vanyi via Unsplash
In another life, Kola (not his real name) would have been a mechanical engineer. For now, he’s a supervisor with the Nigerian Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) and he may hate the job but at least it ... |
| 17.05.2017 | Lagos State Government Bans VIO
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| 04.05.2017 | TechCabal Daily: What is Public Transport? | 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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| 02.03.2017 | TechCabal daily: Here, there be IPOs | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
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| - | 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 ... |
