Toffene Kama has advised, launched, operated many startups, with experience telling him that funding was a major roadblock for entrepreneurs.…
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Venture capital (VC) funds deployed in African markets should result in a “trickle down” effect that addresses issues around poverty…
Nigerian startup Qataloog makes it easy for universities and colleges to order specialised academic books, enabling catalogue discovery, sharing, strategic…
Nigerian fintech startup Moni is a community-powered digital finance platform for African SMEs and consumers that leverages the concepts of…
Kenyan insurtech startup mTek is a 100 per cent digital insurance platform that seeks to get uninsured Kenyans insured by…
One of the key areas where women are disadvantaged in the VC workplace in Africa and elsewhere is job progression,…
Tanzanian startup OnilBox has become the largest fitness technology platform in the country just over a year after launching, helping…
Nigerian mobility startup MAX has slowly evolved over the last seven years, from moto-taxi app to driver support community, and…
Kenyan startup Sunrise Homeschooling is tapping into the post-COVID homeschooling popularity via its online learning platform, having pivoted from a…
Female fund managers are very much in the minority worldwide. In the US, only nine per cent of decision makers…