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AI

“I’m Not Aware”: Musk, Grok, and the silence around image abuse

While Elon Musk denies knowledge of Grok-generated nonconsensual imagery, California launches an investigation, and Southeast Asian nations move to block the chatbot.

Funding

Cardtonic raises $2.1 million to build Pil, its standalone business spend infrastructure

Cardtonic has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to build Pil, a standalone B2B card spend management platform for African businesses.

Opinion

Why Africa’s $100B HealthTech opportunity is shifting to the “Back-End”

Africa's $100B HealthTech opportunity is shifting from B2C apps to B2B/B2G infrastructure. Discover the rise of solutions digitizing supply chains, embedded finance, and hospital backbones in Africa.

News

Nigeria’s Paycrest raises $404k pre-seed to solve stablecoin-to-fiat liquidity gaps 

Paycrest has raised a $404,000 pre-seed round to build decentralised stablecoin-to-fiat settlement infrastructure as Africa’s early-stage funding tightens.

Venture Capital

FirstFounders and Terra Industries: The $11.75M Venture Studio success story

The pivot of Terra Industries highlights the critical role of early-stage R&D support in Africa’s burgeoning hardware sector.

Opinion

Internal brand communications: culture, teams, and alignment

In Africa’s fast‑growing tech ecosystem, where startups face multidimensional challenges, the difference between success and failure often comes down to whether teams fight external battles together—or waste energy fighting each other.

Opinion

What Tage’s TechCrunch exit tells us about the industry

Global media is quietly deprioritising African tech coverage, even as the industry grapples with talent exodus. Here is how we know.

News

Terra Industries raises $11.75 million to upscale Africa’s defence systems

"We want to take the defence of our continent’s resources and infrastructure into Africa’s own hands," Co-founder and CEO Nathan Nwachuku said in a statement.

Startups

Meet the 10 startup founders building Africa’s emerging payment tech solutions

A new generation of founders hard to ignore.

News

First HoldCo non-banking subsidiaries get new board appointments 

First HoldCo Plc has announced new board appointments across its non-banking subsidiaries, naming five new chairmen, including two women.

Opinion

Africa’s $400 Billion Food Waste Scandal

Post-harvest losses are solvable, but only with a better understanding of what the problem demands: high-risk, capital-intensive infrastructure, operational expertise, and patient capital

Funding

Quideos raises €5.2 Million in follow-on funding led by Breega

French fintech Quideos raises €5.2 million in follow-on funding led by Breega to scale its agricultural price-hedging platform.

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