Editor’s Be aware
- Week 34, 2022
- Learn time: 5 minutes
Nigeria’s ASUU strike is upending the degree-before-career norm within the minds of younger Nigerians, lots of whom are turning to tech as they watch for college to renew. That’s tech for you: snaking its means round society, transferring issues round, constructing new modes of engagement, and creating new alternatives.
This week’s tales taught me lots—from how South Africa grew to become Africa’s hotbed for startup exits to why podcasting isn’t but worthwhile throughout Africa. I hope they offer you one thing to speak about over lunch on Sunday.
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Immaculata Abba,
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Who introduced the cash this week?
- Egyptian ArabyAds, raised $30 million in a Pre-series B spherical from AfricInvest.
- Cameroonian Taaply, a digital enterprise card resolution geared toward reducing down on carbon emissions in Africa, raised an preliminary funding spherical value $500k from unnamed traders.
- SubsBase, a subscription and income administration platform, raised $2.4 million in seed funding led by World Ventures.
- Egypt-based edtech firm OBM raised an undisclosed quantity (six-digit) from EdVentures within the second spherical of funding.
Recreation: What number of phrases are you able to get from “Investor”?
If you don’t repeat letters, there are about 138 phrases you may type from “investor.”
Can you find them?
What else to learn this weekend?
- The Subsequent Wave: Africa must shed the “mobile-first” garb.
- Ghanaian tech startups flip to stronger currencies because the cedi falls.
- How Zineb Drissi Kaitouni is constructing the largest healthtech powerhouse in Africa.
- Liquid Clever Applied sciences expands Zambia footprint.
- Fast Hearth🔥with John Etokhana.
- WiSolar launches hybrid prepaid solar electricity platform “WiGo” for Nigeria and South Africa.
- Decide n Pay turns into the primary sub-Saharan African retailer to finish an all-in migration to AWS.
- NFT marketplaces you need to know.
- Speed up TV launches its streaming app to energy Africa’s creative content.
- Prosus acquires Brazilian on-line meals supply service iFood.