2020 was a year that will forever live in infamy. The COVID-19 pandemic put a hold on many aspects of life and business, but it also became a wake up call for digital innovators to improve and speed up their work. This is especially true in the world of financial technology
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As an entrepreneur or a startup founder, if there is only one agreement you can ask from a corporate lawyer for your company, what will that agreement be? They are many business agreements out there. Let’s do some guessing game. Are you going to choose an employment agreement? Non-disclosure agreement? Non-compete
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Can companies actually enable digital growth in times of crisis and beyond? My interlocutors have asked me this question again and again in countless phone calls and video conferences over the past months. One thing is clear: there is certainly no general answer to this question. Because as diverse as the
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Fundraising is an ongoing effort that entrepreneurs and founders need to manage when starting and scaling an early-stage company. Savvy and well-read founders seeking to raise funds from investors usually use the phrase “smart money” to explain the type of investors they want to take a stake in their business. “Smart
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If your business wants to do more than survive, it needs a different approach to optimise processes in your business If you’re tired of the buzzwords, you’re not alone. The idea of a “digital transformation” or digitalisation or any other kind of coined version of “change” drives many in business to
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Konga, Nigeria’s retail giant aims to revolutionize agriculture in Nigeria by leveraging e-Commerce to help rural farmers access better agricultural inputs at highly competitive rates, such as crop seedlings, fertilizers and much more. The project, the first in Africa, is a collaboration formed in 2016 with UKAid-funded Frontier Technology Livestreaming to
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Nigerian API fintech startup, Mono announced that it has been accepted into Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch. It will join 39 other African startups already in the accelerator’s portfolio. Co-founded in August 2020 by serial entrepreneur — ex-Product Manager, Paystack; CEO, OyaPay; Co-founder, Voyance — Abdulhamid Hassan as CEO and Prakhar
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Tope Awotona’s cloud scheduling platform Calendly, has raised $350 million from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq capital, making the Atlanta-based company valued at over $3 billion. The high valuation is due to the explosive growth Calendly experienced last year. In 2019, Calendly had less than a million users; now, it currently
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a key driver in fintech businesses reinventing themselves, according to new findings from data and analytics company GlobalData. As COVID-19 continues to create economic uncertainty, several fintechs have started to realign their growth strategies, the analysts state. However, while some fintechs have been at the forefront to
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2020 was a record breaking year for investment in the African tech start-up ecosystem, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with more start-ups raising more capital from more investors than ever before. New funding milestones were set over the course of 2020, 397 start-ups raised US$701.5 million in total funding, according to the
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