By Michael Kachitsa Charlette N’Guessan is the first woman to win the prestigious prize since it was established in 2014, and the first winner from Ghana. The prize was awarded for BACE API, which uses facial recognition to verify identities remotely. N’Guessan and her team… Read More »The Success of Charlette N’Guessan – Young Lady in Tech Business
By Michael Kachitsa Aisha Raheem is the founder of Farmz2U an agritech enterprise based in Nigeria and serving Sub-Saharan African markets. A British-Nigerian national, Aisha moved back to the continent to address the challenges of food sustainability. Farmz2U uses its software solution to enable precision… Read More »Aisha Raheem farmz2u
By Michael Kachitsa Africa-focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion. The investment came via Transsion’s Tecno subsidiary, with participation from China’s NetEase and wireless comms hardware firm Mediatek — a Transsion… Read More »Palm Pay – Another Finance Technology in Africa
By Michael Kachitsa History was made in Morocco again on Friday when the Video Assistant Referee technology (VAR) was used in a top-flight league game for the first time in Africa. VAR had already made its debut in the Moroccan Cup semi-finals and final, but… Read More »VAR in Africa
By Michael Kachitsa Interswitch is a payment processing company headquartered in Lagos. Interswitch was founded in 2002 by Mitchell Elegbe. In 2010 two thirds of the company was sold to a consortium led by Helios Investment Partners. In 2011 Interswitch took a 60 per cent… Read More »Interswitch – Making Nigeria money Transfers Easy
By Michael Kachitsa Africa-focused fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B round backed by Chinese investors. Located in Lagos and founded by consumer internet company Opera, OPay will use the funds to scale in Nigeria and expand its payments product to Kenya,… Read More »Opay Nigerian Tech Company
In a bid to help eradicate rural energy poverty in Malawi, Flame Tree Initiative (FTI) conducted a Development Entrepreneurship Lab (DELab) to train dynamic entrepreneurs who have solutions to off-grid energy poverty in their communities. The intent of the DELab, held from May through August… Read More »Confronting Energy Poverty in Malawi
By Michael Kachitsa As startup and innovation culture deepens on the continent, the explosion of tech hubs across Africa has shown no signs of slowing down: the number of tech hubs across Africa grew by nearly 50% over the past year. As these hubs play crucial… Read More »The biggest trends in African tech
By Michael Kachitsa Africa’s technology industry is rapidly growing. There has been a massive growth in technology hubs across the continent, growing over 50% in the last several years. This growth of technology business in Africa is propped up by the growth of computer engineering… Read More »Progression of African Technology
By Michael Kachitsa You’ve heard of fast advancements in Asia’s economy. Now get ready for Africa’s. Twitter TWTR, 1.87% CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted about his plans to move to Africa in 2020, saying he wants to live there for up to six months. Africa may… Read More »Technology will ripple through Africa