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Good morning ☀️ ️ “Nigeria is like the dazzling, exciting girl Jack dated. Ghana is the calm, dependable one he married.” A twitter user’s comment on Twitter choosing Ghana over Nigeria for its office in Africa. In todays edition: South African healthcare startup raises $1.1 million Ghanian startup Zeepay acquires Zambia’s Mangwee Mobile Money South Africa halts vaccine rollout again Former Amazon engineer, helping kids and adults brush their teeth better Teaching a child to bru...

Good morning ☀️ ️ "The only thing that can make it better is if its more than once a day �� " - One of the answers to a question were asking all week: how would you rate the TC Daily? In todays edition: Bitcoin is on the up and up Tiger Globals wild 2021 Numida closes $2.3M seed round The CEO who turned down millions for a greener and cleaner Africa “It is hard to turn down R360 million [$25 million] when you don’t even know how you will pay your employees at the end of the ...

TechCabal Daily: In Today's newsletter, we talk regulation, SIM cards and influencers on Twitter Nigeria and we also bring you some data

The numbers In Africa, Cleantech is in with a shout In 2020, quite a bit of funding was invested in startups around Africa. If you guessed that most of that went to fintech startups, that wouldn’t be a difficult guess. One surprising bit of data was that in 2020, clean technology was the second most popular destination for funding. 31% of the $2.4 billion that was invested in Africa in 2020 went to cleantech companies. Cleantech’s popularity as an investment destination has continued to g...

17 FEB, 2021 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Good morning ☀️ ️ “We need to inflict pain” Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said this to team members about Apple, after the iPhone manufacturer unleashed a new privacy policy that will hurt FB’s ad business. We’ll be looking out for Facebook’s next move. In today’s edition: M-Pesa Mastercard teams up […]

Retail in Kenya Order comes to crowdfunding In April 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released draft regulations for crowdfunding activity in Nigeria. It was one of the few sectors where people were actually asking for regulation. While there are a lot of positives to companies raising funds from the public in exchange for equity, some bad actors have seized the absence of regulation to fleece investors. Because there were no rules, investors had no recourse whenever this happ...