The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Fri, Jul 24
Airtel Money's EBITDA margin just fell nearly four percentage points — not because the business weakened, but because Airtel renegotiated the internal charges the fintech pays its parent for access to distribution networks, mobile…
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Five hundred thousand dollars in pre-seed funding. Acquired by a company worth $9.3 billion. By any measure, that is a remarkable return on a remarkably small bet.
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The $30 million from FMO isn't mainly about the money. It's about what currency the money arrives in.
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Medium-sized Nigerian businesses are being onboarded right now, with smaller ones following in 2027. Every invoice they issue will travel instantly to the Nigeria Revenue Service, carrying a unique reference number that lets the authority…
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The National Bank of Ethiopia just banned self-custody — the act of keeping cryptocurrency in your own wallet, secured by a password only you know.
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Voice was Ethio Telecom's biggest earner for over a hundred years. Data just overtook it — 31% of revenue against voice's 23.5%.
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Fewer than 2% of Africa's languages are meaningfully supported by modern AI — Tijani's own figure, and the problem ATLAS says it exists to fix.
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