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Funding

Ten years after Paystack: what Y Combinator’s African portfolio looks like

Ten years after Paystack joined Y Combinator, the accelerator’s African portfolio reveals a story of fintech dominance, concentrated funding, and an ecosystem gradually building alternatives to Silicon Valley validation.

African Markets

Inside Asaba computer village: A bustling gadgets hub 

Inside Asaba Computer Village, a sprawling network of technicians, parts dealers, and apprentices keeps Nigeria’s smartphone economy running as inflation and currency depreciation make repairs cheaper than replacements.

Funding

When does Africa actually take back its independence?

Borderless and African Angel Academy have launched a partnership to help African diaspora investors learn, organize, and collectively invest in African startups.

Social Media

Meta introduce premium tier for Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp joins the paid subscription club

Fintech

Why Tether buys distribution while PayPal already owns it

Two fintech giants with about 500 million users each have deepened their relationship with Africa. Learn how their profiles and end game differ.

News

Meet the sectors breaking fintech’s monopoly in African venture funding

Three new tech sectors crossed the $100 million threshold in equity financing in 2025

Cybersecurity

DDoS attack expose South Africa’s cybersecurity oversight lapses

Nationwide DDoS attack hits Africa's biggest economy exposing frailties at the highest level

African Markets

Africa’s payments infrastructure needs to be rebuilt from scratch

Africa's payments infrastructure needed to be rebuilt from scratch, so Maplerad is doing that.

Features

A double designer building a fashion tech to end the “what I ordered vs what I got” problem in Africa

Eazyfit founder Olamide Adeyi grew up in a family of fashion designers in Kwara State. Now, he is building a fashion-tech platform that connects customers with verified tailors and tackles Africa’s “what I ordered versus what I got” problem.

Fintech

Checker hires ex-Verto Sales manager, Isaac Umejiaku, as talent war deepens

In the highly contested cross-border payments space in Africa, will talent be enough to win?

African Markets

Why debt must be part of every African startup’s 2026 financing strategy

Equity built Africa’s startup ecosystem but in 2026 the founders who scale will be the ones using debt as part of their financing strategy.

News

Bitcoin to Naira: Transactions Surge as Nigerian Freelancers Embrace Crypto Payments

As remote work grows in Nigeria, freelancers are turning to crypto payments for faster global transactions.

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