Moove's billions: founded in Africa, built for everywhere else
The valuation jump — from $750 million to $2.1 billion — is real, and the Mubadala-led cheque is one of the largest ever written for an African-founded startup.
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The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Thu, Aug 13
Yellow Card: the client list already answered the hardest question
Standard Chartered and Sony get headlines. The line buried in the briefing is the one that matters: Visa, Western Union, Mastercard, MoneyGram, and PayPal are already live on Yellow Card's infrastructure.
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Sixty60: the app that's carrying a supermarket giant on its back
Shoprite's South African stores added R15.2 billion in sales last year across nearly 2,800 outlets. Sixty60 — a single delivery app — added R6.6 billion on its own.
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Jumia: the raise that only matters if Q4 delivers
The numbers Jumia is posting are genuinely better — orders up 28%, losses shrinking by 36%, Nigeria growing at 50% GMV year-on-year. After years of bleeding, that is real.
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CBN Sandbox: Nigeria now has two regulators running parallel crypto auditions
The CBN's second sandbox opened the same week the SEC's latest crypto cohort is still running — Luno and six others already testing under SEC oversight.
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Vodacom has appointed Segun Ogunsanya, formerly CEO of Airtel Africa, to its board of directors, alongside the departure of Saki Macozoma. The governance reshuffle brings deep pan-African telco operating experience into Vodacom's boardroom at a strategic juncture for the group.
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