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South African venture capital firm HAVAÍC has announced a $500,000 pre-Series A funding round in FinAccess, a Kenyan software solutions provider that digitises farming co-operatives and community banks, also called Savings & Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs) in the region. The investment in FinAccess will come from HAVAÍC’s $20 million Universum Core African Fund which focuses

Last Friday at the State House in Nairobi, the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, announced the addition of coding as a subject into its primary and secondary schools curricula. This new development makes Kenya the first country in Africa to approve coding as a subject of study in the 2 early schools.  “I applaud the

According to Mordor Intelligence’s Car Rental Market – Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 – 2027) report, the global car rental market was worth $119.28 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $223.07 billion by 2027 with a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 11% during the forecast period (2022 –

Fintech is the darling of the technology sector in Africa. From its early and humble beginnings at the turn of the century, enabling payments has become the centrepiece of innovation in Africa. Last year, about 62% of venture capital investment was made into fintech companies. In the first half of this year, fintech already accounts for 60%

Editor’s Note Week 31, 2022 Read time: 5 minutes Sadly, the tech lay-offs continue unabated. Meanwhile, the Nigerian government plans to increase VAT on mobile services. As you follow these unpalatable stories, I hope they don’t dampen your weekend. Protect your peace. ❤ Kelechi Njoku, Senior Editor, TechCabal. Editor’s Picks Increased cost of calls, SMS

Last week telco giants, Airtel Africa and MTN Nigeria, released their 2022 first half (H1) financial reports. The financial reports, although stellar by many standards, were impacted by the challenges of operating in Nigeria. On Thursday, July 28, Airtel Africa got on a call with investors and analysts to answer questions related to its half-year

In February, during a visit to Nairobi, Nigerian product designer Lola Salehu started thinking about leaving Lagos. Until then, Salehu, who previously worked with Paystack as a senior product designer, had lived in Lagos all her life. She was visiting Kenya’s capital with other Nigerian tech ecosystem operators for Nairobi Fintech Happy Hour, an event

Wave, a leading mobile money provider, became a household name 4 years ago across francophone West Africa for 2 different reasons: crushing monopoly and bringing the mobile money pricing structure down by 80% in Senegal.  For the rest of the world, its popularity arrived when it became the first unicorn from the francophone Africa region

This piece was contributed to TechCabal by Oswald Osaretin Guobadia. Mr. Guobadia is currently the Senior Special Assistant to His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Digital Transformation. He is the lead on the Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB) -a project that is strategic to the growth of Nigeria’s tech ecosystem and digital economy. Africa, the world’s

Road transportation is the primary way of moving from one city to another in Africa. Rail infrastructure is patchy, waterways are not navigable for long distances, and air transport is simply too expensive. To travel from one city to another, people rely on buses, mostly privately operated. x Africa’s burgeoning tech sector has taken notice