The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Thu, Sep 3
Uber poured $100m into Moove — a Lagos-born vehicle-financing company built specifically to solve the driver shortage on Uber's own platform — just 18 months before shutting down the platform Moove was built to serve.
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Vision Invest signing a shareholder agreement in Riyadh tells you something the headline doesn't: the capital building Africa's digital backbone is increasingly coming from outside the continent — and outside the traditional Western…
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The standard read on founders choosing debt over equity is that they're settling — equity dried up, so they borrow.
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Azura Power supplies roughly 10% of baseload grid power in each market it operates — Nigeria, Senegal, Mozambique. That's not a peripheral asset. That's critical national infrastructure, and it just passed 90% into Abu Dhabi hands.
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Tanel didn't sell because it was an overnight success. It sold because it earned real trust the hard way — five business models tried and discarded, unit economics interrogated at every turn, founders sitting in offices with broken fans…
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Paratus Uganda identified as first commercial operator to bring Starlink service to market following the official Uganda launch.
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