Latest Techcabal Headlines Today
August 18, 2022
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Bolt bolts in Tanzania
- Bolt scales down its operations in Tanzania as Uber leaves market
- Liquid Intelligent Technologies completes acquisition of Israeli technology company Telrad
- How to do Cultural Investing in Africa, according to MaC Venture Capital
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Rain retreats
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African logistics company Lori Systems raises pre-Series B funding from Google
- Will self-service lockers fix last-mile delivery in Nigeria?
- MTN’s latest financial results show strong growth of fintech business
- Hytch abandons car-pooling, becomes a B2B logistics startup
- MTN receives $35 million binding offer for its Afghanistan business
- Rain retracts Telkom offer announcement but plans to make a formal offer in the future
- TC Crossword- Guess the startup
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Meet the Paystack Mafia: a group of emerging Nigerian founders
- 20 minutes delivery: Jumia launches Food Mart, its quick commerce platform in Nigeria
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Ruto wins
- Pastel locks in 5.5 million seed funding led by TLcom to optimise African SMEs
- TechCabal and MoniePoint partner to discuss how tech is changing the informal economy
- The Next Wave: We are sleepwalking into a biometric dystopia
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What is the future of African logistics?
- 👨🏿🚀 TechCabal Daily – 200 hacking attempts in Kenya
- TC Games: How many words can you get from “Saturday”?
- This Week: Kenya mandates coding in schools
- Samsung launches its newest foldable phones in Nigeria
- Destination Kinshasa: Can Kenya’s infatuation with the DRC inspire digital innovation?
- Another day, another suitor for Telkom as Toto Consortium makes offer to purchase government’s stake
- How Uganda’s Tripesa raised funds to power tech-enabled tourism in Africa
- Are fintechs taking the lion’s share of Africa’s product managers?
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How DigiFemmes plans to increase access to digital skills for women in Côte d’Ivoire
- In Nigeria, local pioneers and brands are driving an extended reality revolution
- Ghanaian Float acquires Nigerian Accounteer to provide accounting services to small businesses
- Rain proposes merger with Telkom, regulator says ‘no’, but it might not be over yet
- Interswitch has integrated all its APIs in one platform
- South African metaverse startup SodaWorld secures funding from Swiss CV venture capital firm
- Quick Fire🔥with Gabriel Gab-Umoden
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Rain proposes to Telkom
- QED makes its first investment in Africa through TeamApt
- South African logistics startup Droppa announces Series A round led by SkyNet Worldwide Express
- South African startup DataProphet raises $10 million to scale AI solutions for manufacturers
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Naira payments are making a comeback
- Nigeria tells Google to exclude certain groups from using its products
- Airtel Africa signs $125 million credit facility with Citigroup
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – African founders and investors speak up
- South African accelerator Grindstone announces 2022/23 cohorts
- Elloe acquires Kenyan social commerce startup Flo by Saada
- “The African tech ecosystem will remain unshaken in this economic downturn,” founders and investors say
- Amidst fintech regulatory hurdles, Virtual Pay secures a payment service license in Kenya
- Nigerian Bluechip Technologies expands to Europe to target banks and telcos
- TC Crossword: Guess the startup
- TC Games: Which country’s flag is this?
- 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Fighting potholes