Business Angels, Blackberry and Tech Bubbles 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 We're often asked what informs our opinionated take on the biggest tech and innovation headlines each week. Our secret is having five to ten times as many conversations per week than most people we know. From established tech
The South African Reserve Bank Is Warming Up To Blockchain Technology 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 The continent's two most prominent central banks-- the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), have decidedly different attitudes towards the notion of adopting virtual currencies. While the CBN has recently warned the
Internet Blackout Persists In Anglophone Cameroon 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon are probably still celebrating their win against The Pharaohs of Egypt in the AFCON final. How ironic that roughly 20% of the Central African country’s population was unable to celebrate their national team’s
Kwesé TV Poised To Give DStv A Haircut 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Africa's 'high-end' VOD scene is hotting up, and for home-grown heavies, ShowMax and Kwesé, the race to achieving critical mass is on. ShowMax is on the prowl for mobile telco partners that can help
Mastercard Launches 2KUZE Agtech Marketplace For Farmers In East Africa 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Several well-respected voices we featured on the show last year predicted that we would see some major agtech plays happen in 2017. Sure enough, Mastercard made headlines last week for launching a digital marketplace platform called 2KUZE which connects
Fintech News Dominates Holiday Headlines + Insights From CES 2017 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 The team at the African Tech Round-up has returned from the Festive break, and so we’re officially back to our normal programming. This week, we’re catching up on some biggest stories that broke while we were on
African Tech Conversations Discussing Inclusive Value Chains With Simon Carpenter of SAP Africa 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 We are one week away from returning to our regular coverage of the week’s biggest digital, tech and innovation headlines, once the team at the African Tech Round-up returns from the Festive break. This week's show
African Tech Conversations Digital Transformation With Simon Carpenter 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Simon Carpenter is Chief Technology Officer at SAP Africa. In his rather long and varied career at SAP he has been a massive proponent of Digital Transformation and its role in enabling self-sufficiency, inclusiveness and sustainable economic growth on
African Tech Conversations Unpacking Africa's Solar Power Revolution With Chad Larson Of M-KOPA Solar 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 This week's episode of the African Tech Round-up features a snippet from Andile Masuku's full-length sit-down with Chad Larson-- one of the three founders of the Kenyan solar power start-up M-KOPA
African Tech Conversations Turning The Lights On With Chad Larson 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Chad Larson is one of the three founders of the Kenyan solar power start-up M-KOPA Solar. He serves as the company’s Finance Director and Chief Credit Officer and has lived in Nairobi with his wife and three
African Tech Conversations Talking Venture Capital With Eline Blaauboer Of TBL Mirror Fund And Safaricom Spark Venture Fund 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 This week’s African Tech Conversations sneak-peek is drawn from an in-depth chat with Eline Blaauboer, Managing Partner at both TBL Mirror Fund and Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. Eline’s worked in the venture capital and private equity
African Tech Conversations Calculated VC Plays With Eline Blaauboer 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Eline Blaauboer is Managing Partner at both TBL Mirror Fund and Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. She’s worked in the venture capital and private equity sector in both Europe and Africa for last 14 years— gaining loads of experience with
African Tech Conversations Addressing Grand Challenges With Solomon Assefa 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Ethiopian-born, Solomon Assefa is the Director of IBM Research in Africa. He is responsible for IBM’s research labs in Kenya and South Africa, and oversees the development of technologies that aim to transform key industries and address the
African Tech Conversations Ringing In The Festive Season With Dr Solomon Assefa of IBM 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 As far as tech and innovation news goes, the past ten days have been pretty eventful-- what with the George Soros-backed Leapfrog raising $800 million to invest in Africa, Yahoo admitting to yet another massive data breach, and the
Zebra Cabs Raises $21.6 Million To Take On Uber And Taxify In South Africa 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 SA Taxi-owned Zebra Cabs has raised just over $21.6 million from Futuregrowth Asset Management to expand their owner-driver scheme in Johannesburg, and to take on Uber and Taxify. Their big hairy audacious goal is to have 3
Senegal Launches A New Electronic Currency 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Senegal is now the second African country after Tunisia to adopt an electronic currency. eCFA is equivalent in value to the country’s physical tender and will be available on all mobile money and e-wallet platforms. This development has
Kenyan Agritech Startup WeFarm Secures $1.6 Million In Funding 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 How much of an over-achiever is Elon Musk fixing to become, though? In the last week, he’s added providing global internet coverage via a massive satellite network to his audacious To-do List. In this week’s African
Vodacom South Africa To Launch An SVOD Platform Called Vodacom On Demand 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Trace TV is fixing to launch arguably the most anticipated SVOD offering of the year, Trace Play. Their ambitious roll-out will involve making Trace Play available in English and French in 100 countries around the world. Trace’s Co-
Highlights From DISCOP Johannesburg and Digital Lab Africa (feat. Jason Njoku of iROKO) 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Andile Masuku and Brian Lupiya spent three days last week at DISCOP Johannesburg— Africa’s biggest multi-screen, multi-platform marketplace, assessing trends within the continent’s digital content scene. They spent most of their time collecting insights at the
The Kenya Revenue Authority Says Uber Will Not Be Subject To Value-Added Tax 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 In this week’s African Tech Round-up, we ask the question, “Should Uber’s wings be clipped before they change the world as we know it?” Lawmakers on the continent appear torn between adopting the pragmatic approach of embracing
Kenya Commercial Bank Gets Hacked? 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 So, Episode 80 of the African Tech Round-up, aka the episode that nearly never happened, is finally out. In an interview Andile Masuku just taped for the upcoming season of the African Tech Conversations series, Co-founder and Chief
Rwanda Launches World's First Drone Delivery Service 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Rwanda has helped Africa beat the rest of the world to rolling out a commercial drone delivery service. The land of a thousand hills has partnered with the UPS Foundation, Gavi, and the Californian drone startup, Zipline, to start using
Tecno Plans To Start Manufacturing Mobile Devices In Nigeria 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 This week’s African Tech Round-up episode is jam-packed. Digital video content creator, streaming evangelist and co-founder of Pockitttv, Julian von Plato joins me to chat about VOD trends and the adoption of streaming technology on the
MTN Group Accused Of Sneaking Nearly $14 Billion Out Of Nigeria 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 There’s blood in the water. Nigerian lawmakers are flexing their might with a confidence rarely seen in decades past— at least as far as taking large corporates to task for flouting regulations. According to some media reports the Nigerian
Kenyan Solar Company D.Light Lands $22.5 Million To Fund Growth 🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 In a week which saw Yahoo announce that it had suffered the worst cyber-breach in history, and all three of Egypt’s incumbent mobile telcos opting not to bid for the 4G licenses being floated by the Egyptian government,
