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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.
After leaving Google, Ibrahima Sylla returned to Côte d’Ivoire to build for the African market. With Yelen, he’s turning WhatsApp and Instagram conversations into structured storefronts, helping social sellers manage payments, customers, and operations from one platform.
Sampson Ovuoba believes building UI should not be code-heavy, so he built Windframe for developers to build visually. Today, engineers from a16z use the platform for prototyping.
In this edition of After Hours, we follow Eunice Olubayo as she shares the challenges of pursuing a space career in a landscape where opportunities were scarce.
In this edition of After Hours, we discuss how a creative writer, brand strategist, and startup operator is transitioning into tech while building solutions for local businesses.
From corporate communications and oil and gas to fintech, Bukola Alawiye and Busola Oluwatobi have taken unconventional paths into Africa’s tech ecosystem. They share how curiosity, mentorship, and constant learning helped them transition into tech.
In this edition of After Hours, Goshit Rotkhinen Gideon shares how he went from writing lines of code on physical sheets of paper to building advanced AI agents for healthcare
Nigerian fintech Nomba has evolved from a chatbot into a payments platform helping African businesses accept payments, manage finances, and receive international funds at lower costs.
In this edition of Techpoint Diaspora, Tolu Fagbola shares how his background in telecoms, training, and education technology led him to build an AI-powered platform tackling preventable healthcare emergencies in the United States.
