News Gokada resumes ride-hailing, expands into Ibadan With more than 1.5 million deliveries for 30,000 merchants in Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, Gokada intends to replicate its success in Ibadan, Oyo state.
Spotlight Is Kuda changing the dial in terms of customer experience? Kuda is at the forefront of challenger banks looking to change the status quo of banking in Nigeria. However, the startup has had challenges with the same age-old issue that have defined their traditional companions.
News TechAdvance is now Bloc TechAdvance has rebranded to Bloc to offer a more personalized experience to its clients.
Newsletter BD Insider 80th: eNaira, Vectar, Qala Fellowship, Shecluded and Angel Investor In the 80th issue of the BD Insider, we explored the eNaira, training of Bitcoin developers by Qala Fellowship and how Shecluded is helping women to achieve financial freedom.
Opinion 15 global startup accelerators accepting Nigerian startups Accelerator programs that admit African startups and can fast track the growth of young innovative startups.
News Jobberman Launches Alliance for Better Work Initiative An initiative set to bolster job retention, workplace productivity, business development, and bridge the gender unemployment gap.
Opinion Tech Word For The Week: Angel Investor They are usually high net worth individuals who have enough excess funds to invest in untested but promising startups who can give them higher returns than traditional financial institutions.
Opinion What is the National Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy of 2021? The Federal Government of Nigeria is discussing the modalities for implementation of the new National Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy (NCPS). Here is what you need to know.
Sterling Sterling pilots 500-50-5 initiative to make indigenous businesses globally competitive 500-50-5 is a signature program created to transform indigenous businesses into global enterprises.
News Qala Fellowship to train the next generation of African Bitcoin developers Qala Fellowship has received a 0.5BTC grant from the New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) to train Bitcoin developers in Africa.
Newsletter BD Insider 79th: Zero to Scale with Printivo’s CEO, Chinalysis on Crypto and the Era of Consumer Financing This is a blog copy of the 79th version of our weekly newsletter, BD Insider. Subscribers get to read it first and can take action based it.
Fintech Shecluded: A Gender-based Fintech that keeps on giving Shecluded plans to change the lives of a lot of women by ensuring more female-led MSMEs grow to large organizations in the future.
News Catalysing Conversations 2021 - Endeavor Nigeria releases lists of speakers Catalysing Conversations 2021, seeks to drive a culture of entrepreneurial leadership and inspire a generation of high-impact entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Opinion Tech Word for The Week: Venture Capital Venture Capital is a kind of financing (and expert support) investors provide for young startups who have an innovative product or service and high growth potential. Investors provide technical support and finance in exchange for equity in the startups.
Zero To Scale Zero to Scale—Daniel Levy, Co-CEO at Flow Daniel Levy is half of a dynamic duo, alongside Gil Sperling—Co-CEOs at Flow, a South-African proptech platform that matches people with property, helping landlords and agents be more efficient.
News Releaf secures $4.2 million to scale Nigeria's oil palm sector Releaf has secured $4.2 million in seed funding and grants to drive the industrialization of food processing for Africa which will also enable Nigeria’s Oil Palm sector
Opinion Understanding the 5G Network deployment approval in Nigeria. 5G is a technology that opens new opportunities for seamless connectivity and higher data speeds.
News 5 takeaways from Chainalysis' report on crypto in Africa The Chainalysis report, which is the first dedicated report on the African crypto ecosystem, explores the volume and nature of transactions on the continent between June 2020 and July 2021.
News TecXposition Launches Second Edition of Annual Africa’s Premier Tech Event TecXposition has announced the second edition of its annual African Premier Tech event, themed - ‘Improving Profitability: Changing everyday lives.’
News TechAdvance unveils Bloc — a faster way to build fintech products TechAdvance has announced the release of its product, Bloc—a proprietary suite of APIs capable of helping anyone launch a FinTech product in far less time than it usually takes.
Opinion Buy Now, Pay Later—the latest era of consumer financing in Nigeria Salami Segun, a BNPL enthusiast and the Business Development Manager of Zoomba.ng, believes that their business model reduces the risk of default to the barest minimum.
Zero To Scale Zero To Scale: Temitope Ekundayo, Co-CEO at Printivo In this third edition of Zero To Scale, Temitope Ekundayo talks to us about how impressive customer service and one amazing referral started the scaling journey for Printivo.
News Renaissance Capital to double down on the Africa tech and fintech space. Renaissance Capital intends to support the African tech ecosystem through advisory, research and venture investing.
News Flutterwave to offer MTN Mobile Money as a payment method in Africa Flutterwave will now provide MTN mobile money as a payment method for businesses in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia
Opinion Tech Word of The Week: Product-market fit Product Market fit is a perfect blend between a product and the market’s need such that clients become raving ambassadors.
