David Akinin News Today

Besides one startup, Namibia’s startups ecosystem is not widely known. Can addressing its challenges unleash its opportunities?

TALLINN – The African and European business elite will gather next Monday and Tuesday in Tallinn for the Africa Business Forum, the aims o...

Jabu's chief executive officer (CEO), David Akinin, was born in Venezuela and grew up in the United States of America, where he completed his high school education.He then pursued...

A checkup on southern Africa's YCombinator alumni.

Jabu's chief executive officer (CEO), David Akinin, was born in Venezuela and grew up in the United States of America, where he completed his high school education.He then pursued...

A roundtable on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leaders Summit looked at how institutional funds and banks can accelerate investment in firms owned by women in Africa.

The Africa Youth Tourism summit organised by Africa region of United Nations World Tourism Organisation in partnership with Namibia Ministry of Tourism

On #TechpointDigest, Victoria Fakiya (@latoria_ria) discusses how Traction wants to stop fake alerts, Canza Finance's journey, Esaal's $1.7m seed round, and JABU’s $15m series A.

More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. This time, it’s a startup that was in the news this January: Namibia-based JABU, whose $3.2 million seed round we covered. Now, the last-mile distribution e-commerce company has […]

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