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CashAfrica is betting on contactless payments as Nigeria’s next major shift, building infrastructure and partnerships to power tap-to-pay adoption.
At 16, Ibrahim Kolade is already building a freelance platform designed to help African talent get discovered beyond ratings and platform bias.
Paystack has redesigned its merchant dashboard for the first time in a decade, positioning the overhaul around artificial intelligence to help businesses make more informed decisions.
Checker is betting stablecoins can fix Africa’s costly cross-border payments problem as trade volumes rise and fintechs search for faster, cheaper settlement infrastructure.
In this edition of After Hours, Jehpte Ioudom, a Cameroon AI engineer, shares his experiences with technology.
In this feature, Jessica Hope, founder of Wimbart shares her journey from journalism to building a PR company.
Nigerian businesses juggle unreliable grid power, diesel generators, and solar systems at high cost. PowerLabs’ software platform, Pai, helps optimise energy use, cutting expenses and improving uptime.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Chuma Chukwujama, the founder of Xceed365HR and his journey from an engineering student at OAU to building a decade old HR platform.
Speedinvest is raising up to €100 million to invest in African startups, signaling a deeper commitment to the region with plans for on-the-ground teams and long-term support for founders.
In this edition of After Hours, Adeyemi Akitoye, a cybersecurity graduate and the co-founder of Knowvas, a creator platform, shares his journey building a startup with his father.
In this edition of After Hours, Gift Ojeabulu shares how an unplanned switch to computer science, a crashed laptop, and a growing curiosity for problem-solving led him into machine learning.
In this edition of Techpoint Diaspora, Abiodun Adetu shares how relocating to Canada forced her to confront the realities of starting over, despite years of experience in Nigeria’s media industry.
Nsisong Okon’s shares his journey, from his early struggles in Lagos, Nigeria, to moving to Portugal, where he works remotely and now giving back to his home country.
By integrating job distribution, digital commerce, and research tools into one ecosystem, the startup is bridging the gap in Africa’s talent ecosystem.
After Xara went viral, its Nigerian founder caught the attention of Elon Musk’s xAI. Built as a WhatsApp banking assistant, the startup now has 45,000 users and ₦8 billion ($5,000,000) in transactions.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Theresa Nwaubani and her gradual rise from an administrative role to an executive at Enviable Group.
In this article, we highlight the women whose roles influence the systems, partnerships, and platforms at the core of West Africa’s fintech industry.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Amina Asu-Beks and how she built an AI-shopping assistant without a technical background or a completed university degree.
Fixr employs 400 technicians, runs its own logistics, and has processed nearly ₦5bn in solar financing, all without VC funding. Here’s how it’s scaling a contractor-led model across Nigeria and beyond.
As Nigeria’s waste crisis deepens, Ecobarter is betting that paying people to recycle and digitising informal collectors can succeed where public systems have struggled.
