3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1010+ words) For four years, the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) has been building the plumbing for a more connected African economy. Since launching in January 2022, the payment network says it currently connects 30 African countries, 24 central banks, about 200 financial institutions and…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1639+ words) For years, Sheriff Issaka kept running into the same problem while building language technology for Africa: there was not enough data. The data needed to train systems for African languages was scarce, and much of what was available was not…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (568+ words) HashLiquid brings supported exchange accounts, Web3 wallets, local payment methods and merchant liquidity into one marketplace—designed to make P2P access more connected and more accountable. HashLiquid is not building another isolated P2P order book. It is building an independent, exchange-connected marketplace where…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (499+ words) How shared community broadband is rewriting Africa’s connectivity playbook TechCabal How shared community broadband is rewriting Africa’s connectivity playbook Despite rapid advancements in telecommunications across Africa, bridging the last-mile connectivity divide remains a persistent structural hurdle. According to a 2026 report…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (456+ words) Capitec, South Africa’s largest digital bank, is about to get a second venue for investors to trade its shares, but the bigger story is what the company has become since it started as a lender 25 years ago. On Monday, September…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1597+ words) A South African startup can have customers, revenue and a product people are willing to pay for, and still struggle to find the money it needs to grow. That sounds like a contradiction in a country where startup funding is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (599+ words) Cash still dominates everyday payments in South Africa, making it a challenging market for MoMo, MTN’s mobile-money and digital financial services platform. But as the country overhauls its payments infrastructure and opens the market to more competition, the company sees…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (740+ words) For South African startups, getting customers is only half the battle. Even after people start paying for their products, raising enough money to grow can remain difficult. That is the funding gap Mamor Capital Ventures wants to target with its…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (429+ words) Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have doubled in Africa’s digital economy within the past year. As of August 17, 2026, TechCabal Insights has tracked 84 M&A deals worth an estimated $11.4 billion in disclosed value. While startups raised $1.44 billion in H1 2026, M&As have…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (250+ words) LAGOS, Nigeria — Africa’s venture capital ecosystem is at a crossroads. After years of record fundraising and headline-grabbing exits, the question now is no longer “Can African startups scale?” but “How do investors actually get their money back?” Organized by Vencapital,…...