AI & Emerging Tech
Artificial intelligence, cloud, data and the frontier technologies being built and deployed in Africa.
Morocco’s ABA Life signs $40 million agreement with Admaius for healthtech expansion
Moroccan healthtech company ABA Life has signed a $40 million investment agreement with Admaius Capital Partners to support its next phase of growth....
Verve outlines plans for phone tap-to-pay, wearables and AI-assisted payments
Verve is developing a payments roadmap that extends beyond physical cards to smartphones, wearable devices and, eventually, transactions carried out by AI agents.Managing...
Nigeria AI Scaling Hub showcases healthcare, farming and language tools at Moonshot
The Nigeria AI Scaling Hub showcased five organisations at Moonshot 2026, bringing attention to locally developed tools for healthcare, agriculture and language technology.The...
Zambia schedules five-day AI training for public-sector leaders
SMART Zambia Institute and Huawei Technologies Zambia plan to begin a five-day artificial intelligence training programme on 2 November. Announced in Lusaka on...
Fynbos Money connects investment portfolios with AI assistants
Cape Town-based Fynbos Money is enabling customers to connect investment portfolios to AI assistants, including ChatGPT and Claude, so they can ask questions...
Eighteen startups enter Hedera-linked Web3 incubation programme
Dar Blockchain and The Hashgraph Association have selected 18 startups for an incubation programme supporting teams emerging from the Hedera Africa Hackathon. The...
Talent Nation secures pre-seed backing for African AI engineering training
Talent Nation has secured an undisclosed pre-seed investment to expand AI engineering training and connect African technical talent with businesses worldwide. Backers named...
Opinion: Cross-border digital ID needs limits as well as connections
Connecting identity systems can make cross-border verification easier. It also creates a need to specify what each participant is allowed to ask and...
Founder Stories
Ikenna Nzewi: The Releaf journey that led to Biochar Industrial Group
Ikenna Nzewi’s startup career has moved from improving agricultural processing to turning its leftovers into a climate technology business. The thread connecting those...
Shola Akinlade: From building software in Lagos to Paystack and The Stack Group
Before Paystack became part of Stripe, Shola Akinlade was a software builder working through a much smaller question: how could the tools he...
