Podcast
Afrobility: Africa Tech and Business
Episodes — page 3
#40: Fawry - How the Egyptian payments platform became one of the largest Tech companies in AfricaOverview: Today, we’re going to talk about Fawry - the Egyptian payments platform. We’ll explore the Fawry story across 6 areas: Egypt context Founding and early history Fundraisi…
- #39: BIMA (Milvik) - How the HealthTech company is providing insurance & medical services across emerging markets
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about BIMA - the HealthTech insurance company. We’ll explore BIMA's story across 6 areas: African Health care status & context BIMA Health fou…
- #38: 54gene - How the HealthTech platform is building diverse datasets to improve diagnostic and treatment outcomes across Africa
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about 54gene - the genomics HealthTech company. We’ll explore the 54gene story across 6 areas: African Health care status & context 54gene ear…
- #37: mPharma - How the HealthTech supply chain platform is providing services to pharmacies & patients across Africa
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about mPharma - the Ghanaian prescription drug inventory management company. We’ll explore the mPharma story across 6 areas: African Health ca…
- #36: Helium Health - How the HealthTech infrastructure platform is supplying services to health care providers across Africa
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Helium Health - the Nigerian HealthTech infrastructure company. We’ll explore the Helium Health story across 6 areas: African Health car…
- #35: MultiChoice - How the South African Pay TV pioneer became the largest entertainment provider across Africa
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about MultiChoice - The African video entertainment provider. We’ll explore the MultiChoice story across 5 areas: South African video entertai…
- #34: Kuda Bank - How Nigeria’s most popular Neobank is scaling to offer financial services to “every African on the planet”
Overview: Today, we’re going to discuss Kuda Bank - the African neobank. We’ll explore the Kuda story across 6 areas: Neobanks in other emerging markets (Brazil & NuBank) African…
- #33: Chipper Cash - How the FinTech platform started from African remittances to become the fastest unicorn in Africa Tech history
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Chipper Cash - The African Fintech payments & remittances player. We’ll explore the Chipper story across 6 areas: Intra-Africa remittanc…
- #32: African FinTech lending - How consumer loan platforms are providing credit across Africa
Overview: Today we’re going to talk about consumer lending in Africa. We start by discussing lending in other emerging markets, discuss Africa’s credit landscape, analyze lending t…
- #31: African Sports betting & gambling tech - The rise & expansion of betting services across Africa
Overview: Today we’re going to talk about Sports betting & gambling tech in Africa. We share some context about betting in developed and emerging markets, analyze betting tech comp…
- #30: Paga - How one of Nigeria’s earliest FinTech companies is providing financial services across emerging markets
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Paga, the fintech payments company. We'll discuss its founding, early history, growth, impact & end with our overall outlook. This episod…
- #29: bKash - How the FinTech payments platform became Bangladesh’s largest tech company
Overview: Today we’re going to talk about bKash - The largest Fintech player in Bangladesh. We start with some background on Bangladesh, discuss bKash’s founding, growth & impact o…
- #28: Sendwave - How the mobile remittances service scaled from Y Combinator to a $500M WorldRemit exit
Overview: Today, we're going to talk about Sendwave - the mobile remittances service that was acquired by WorldRemit in 2020-Aug. We start with the context of African remittances,…
- #27: Takealot - How the South African online retailer became one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Africa
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Takealot - the largest ecommerce platform in South Africa & one of the largest across Africa. We'll start by giving some context of e-com…
- #26: African AgriTech - Early opportunities for technology to scale Agriculture across Africa
Overview: Today, we discuss the opportunity for Agriculture technology to make a difference in Africa. We'll start with some context of African Agriculture, discuss AgriTech in dev…
- #25: Crypto trading exchanges (African WealthTech Pt 3) - How cryptocurrency platforms are providing decentralized financial services across Africa
Overview: Today we’re going to discuss cryptocurrency trading in Africa. We start with the global context of cryptocurrency, review crypto trading exchanges in Africa & end with ou…
- #24: Neobanks (African WealthTech Pt 2) - How TymeBank, Kuda & other digital banks are delivering banking services across Africa
Overview: Today we’re going to discuss the rise of Neobanks in Africa. We’ll start with reviewing Neobanks in other emerging markets, discuss the landscape of neobanks across diffe…
- #23: Stock trading services (African WealthTech Pt 1) - How retail investment platforms are racing to build the African Robinhood and Zerodha
Overview: Today we’re going to talk about WealthTech & the rise of retail investing platforms in Africa. We’ll start with some context of stock market trading, review investment pl…
- #22: African Corporate VCs & Softbank - Why African corporates are not investing in tech startups
Overview: Today we’re going to talk about African Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) using Softbank as a reference point. We'll talk about Softbank's early history, transition from op…
- #21: uLesson - How the EdTech platform is bridging the educational gap across Nigeria & Anglophone Africa
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about uLesson - the African EdTech platform. We'll start with some context about education in Africa & Nigeria, talk about uLesson's early hist…
