Benjamin Dada Dada

Hisa co-founder Eric Jackson steps down post-Risevest acquisition

Fellow co-founder Erick Asuma left the business last year. Eric Jackson solely ran Hisa since the beginning of the year and will now be looking to "touch some grass".

Could stablecoins transform the broken nature of cross-border payments?

What are the challenges and opportunities in the space and could stablecoins transform the broken nature of cross-border payments?

African startups’ participation at the Money20/20 USA event

Meet 10 African startups attending Money20/20 next month in Las Vegas, USA

Wise enables local payouts to Nigeria for the nth time

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is restarting naira transfers to Nigeria for the third time after a two year pause. This time it will have to compete with other local and well-funded players like LemFi and Flutterwave $end.

Stripe to soon allow US retailers to sell directly to Nigerians

Nigeria is one of the two markets where Stripe has begun to allow merchants to accept local payment methods without having to set up a local entity.

CBN never said buying dollars in Nigeria was illegal, in the first place

Although the CBN has said and done a lot to curtail the circulation of dollars in Nigeria, the July 19 MPC meeting wasn't one of those days.

On NDIC’s disbursement of ₦650 bn to 2.3 million insured Heritage Bank depositors

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has begun paying out the trapped funds of depositors at the now-defunct Heritage Bank.

CcHUB announces market expansion program for growth-stage startups in Africa

CcHUB announces market entry program, "Let's Build, Africa" for growth-stage African startups to expand across the continent.

Nigeria stakes claim in Bay Area with Startup House

Nigeria has announced plans to launch a Startup House in the San Francisco Bay Area to drive investment and boost the visibility of the country's startup ecosystem.

Starlink has gone dark in Zimbabwe

The Southern African country's regulators have been on to the satellite internet service since September last year

Thepeer, a startup facilitating inter-wallet operability in Africa is shutting down

Three-year-old seed-stage African API fintech, Thepeer is shutting down after raising nearly $2.5 million in funding.

Sim Shagaya launches The Honey Badger Fund (HBF) to back African entrepreneurs

Sim is popular for pioneering the e-commerce movement in Nigeria through his company, Konga which he founded in July 2012. He raised about $80 million with Konga pre-2020 when capital was scarce in the African tech ecosystem.