Talking Ladders and Trampolines With Musa Kalenga

🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 We’re still in celebration mode for crossing 100 weekly podcasts in a row. And so as promised, this week, we’re sharing more awesomeness from the African Tech Round-up LIVE: State of the Startup event we hosted recently. Enjoy

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Ladders and Trampolines With Musa Kalenga

🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢  Back in 2012, Musa Kalenga was voted as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian, and for good reason. Musa is a talented digital specialist, marketing maven, author, former Group Head of Digital Marketing

The Big 100: State of the Startup LIVE

🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 This is our 100th episode! To everyone who's ever listened in to the show, interacted with us via social media, recommended the podcast to other people, made an audio contribution, emailed a comment or question, been featured as

Talking Access To Higher Education With Bola Lawal Of ScholarX

🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 It's been barely a week since we hosted the African Tech Round-up LIVE: State of the Startup event in Johannesburg, and believe it or not, next week will mark the 100th podcast we'll have published in

Etisalat Nigeria's Creditors Call In Massive Debt + Simon Dingle On Bitcoin And Blockchain Tech

🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Mobile telcos on the continent are certainly having a rough time of it on the continent. In the same week that MTN South Africa CEO, Mteto Nyati, announced his resignation, a consortium of banks including Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank

Nokia's New Dumbphone Dominates Headlines + The Kalenga Conundrum

🟢 CLICK HERE to subscribe to the African Tech Roundup Podcast 🟢 Whatever you think of Nokia's re-introduction of the legendary 3310 device, you've got to hand it to HMD Global for completely owning Mobile World Congress 2017 in terms of capturing headlines. In fact, you'd

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 it hack

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 smallholder

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 holiday,

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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 features

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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 the

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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 Solar. Chad serves as the

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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 boys since

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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 sector in

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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

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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 continent’

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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 Egyptian

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 3 000 cabs

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 led

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 Tech Round-up,

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-founder and

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 fringe of