Over the years, global accelerators, especially Y Combinator and Techstars have played an important role in providing opportunities for African tech entrepreneurs to access mentorship and funding to build their startups from zero to scale.
In 2016, two graduates from the University of Jos—Daser David and Hyginus Horson—founded nHub in Jos, making it the first tech and innovation hub in northern Nigeria. The following year, another innovation hub, CoLab launched in Kaduna.
Ifeoluwa Oyeniyi’s journey into product management started with a love for problem-solving. From his first role to shaping fintech products, he shares how he navigated the industry, the skills that matter, and what’s next for him.
In 2016, two Kenya-based entrepreneurs—Sonia Kabra and Wycliffe Omondi—set out to digitise this sector by providing operators with a bus management system (BMS) for managing their operations, inventory and sales.
Smile Identity, a leading digital KYC provider in Africa, was founded in 2017 by Mark Straub (CEO) and William Bares. Leveraging anonymised data from nearly 50 million KYC checks, the company has put together its second report on the state of KYC in Africa.
