Spotlight: Entrepreneurship & Investing
Ideas relevant to innovators in startups or established companies & the capital providers that enable them.
Can Kenya’s CheckUps disrupt the way healthcare is financed & delivered in Africa?
CheckUps offers an innovative approach to healthcare financing and delivery in a market replete with challenges.
September 2024
Can Loomo transform Africa’s investing landscape?
Unlike other players in the market, Nigeria-born online investment platform Loomo is explicitly targeting novice investors, offering them safer access to potentially high returns.
July 2024
How Lipaworld is productizing remittances for the global African diaspora
South Africa-born startup Lipaworld offers an innovative alternative for cross-border value transfer: voucher payments.
July 2024
Meet the 25 African startups receiving $4M from Google this year
Here are the startups selected to receive $150,000 each in grant funding as part of the 2023 Google for Startups Black Founders Fund: Africa program.
June 2023
Ten Lessons I Learned Building in African Markets Over The Last Decade
Earned insights on scaling innovation-led businesses across the continent.
September 2022
Five Trends to Expect in African Private Equity in 2018
Despite the exit of private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) from Africa last year, the sector is positioned to grow. Here are some themes to look for throughout the year.
January 2018