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This week: Sama leaves Fb

This week: Sama leaves Fb

Editor’s Note Week 02, 2023 Read time: 5 minutes Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of TC Weekender in 2023! Before we delve in, I hope the year has started great for…

Kenyan court docket pauses resumption of M-Pesa fees

Kenyan court docket pauses resumption of M-Pesa fees

Kenya’s High Court asked the Central Bank and Safaricom, the country’s largest telco to suspend the re-introduction of charges on transactions made between mobile money wallets and banks pending the resolution of a suit alleging…

TeamApt sheds its title, rebrands as Moniepoint

TeamApt sheds its title, rebrands as Moniepoint

TeamApt, a Nigerian fintech company, has shed its name and adopted the name of its flagship product—Moniepoint. According to the company, the move is a testament to the success of Moniepoint and a desire to…

Telkom broadcasts termination of merger talks with Rain

Telkom broadcasts termination of merger talks with Rain

On Wednesday, South African mobile network operator Telkom announced that it has terminated merger talks with data-only network operator Rain.  In a statement on the Joburg Stock Exchange News Service (SENS), Telkom announced that the…

As development dwindles and competitors stiffens, Takealot is getting aggressive to remain on high

As development dwindles and competitors stiffens, Takealot is getting aggressive to remain on high

According to World Wide Worx and Mastercard’s online retail study, South Africa’s online retail industry reached R55 billion in 2022, a 30% growth from 2021 mainly driven by an ongoing boom in demand for home…

German BioNTech acquires Tunisia’s InstaDeep for £582 million

German BioNTech acquires Tunisia’s InstaDeep for £582 million

BioNTech, the German biotech company that became a medical powerhouse in 2020 after creating one of the world’s most effective COVID-19 vaccines, will pay a total sum of £582 million ($682 million) to acquire 100%…

Did the Maghreb area hit the highway in 2022?

Did the Maghreb area hit the highway in 2022?

It’s the beginning of a new year and different authorities have started releasing report cards of how African startups fared in 2022. In terms of venture funding, which unsurprisingly is still the major metric of…

African founders should not draw back from progress in 2023

African founders should not draw back from progress in 2023

Disclaimer: Richmond Bassey contributed his playbook for growth in a down market to TechCabal. Bassey is the CEO/co-founder of Bamboo. Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It’s the…

The Battle of Model vs Product II

The Battle of Model vs Product II

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Claudine Moore, managing director Africa Region for Allison + Partners; founder and former CEO, C. Moore Media International Public Relations. I think we can safely say we have moved…

How a South African hacker group stole hundreds of thousands in assets from cloud platforms to fund crypto mining

How a South African hacker group stole hundreds of thousands in assets from cloud platforms to fund crypto mining

According to a report by cybersecurity firm Unit 42, South Africa based hacker group  “Automated Libra” is behind an elaborate crypto mining scheme referred to as “ PurpleUrchin”, which has cost major cloud providers, including…

Ghanaian e-logistics platform, Jetstream, raises $13 million pre-Collection A

Ghanaian e-logistics platform, Jetstream, raises $13 million pre-Collection A

Jetstream Africa, a Ghanaian technology company operating in the logistics sector, has raised $13 million in equity and debt-funded pre-Series A. The equity round saw participation from French development institution PROPARCO through the Digital Africa…

YC-backed Releaf raises $3.3 million pre-Collection A to enhance applied sciences for meals processing in Africa

YC-backed Releaf raises $3.3 million pre-Collection A to enhance applied sciences for meals processing in Africa

Releaf, an agritech startup disrupting Africa’s oil production industry, has secured $3.3 million pre-Series A funding. The funding round, which the startup says was oversubscribed, will support the roll-out of key technologies that could further…