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Our Founders – Obi Ozor and Ife Oyedele II, and the Squad Team- take all the glory. But permit the Prof to celebrate. Everyone is happy here because $30 million from Goldman Sachs into Nigeria is a great validation. But…
Nigeria’s e-logistics pioneer Kobo360 raises $30 million led by Goldman Sachs. Congratulations to the Squad for executing the mission at the highest level. As part of this announcement, I wrote a brilliant piece on the sector yesterday for people to…
ORide takes Gokada down! You cannot use about $5.3 million to battle unlimited $150 million OPay has raised [$50m for OPay and the reserved $100m]. The CEO of Gokada announced a few minutes ago: “Gokada is shutting down”. But it was…
Zido, Nigeria’s pioneer keke aggregator, is scaling across Nigeria, and looking for partners. The startup is a technology-driven auto rickshaw (keke) aggregator. It runs on the business construct of aggregation where digital technology is used to bring efficiency in demand-supply…
African startups raised a cumulative $726 million last year, a 300% increase from 2017 number. Across sectors, investors are trusting entrepreneurs to redesign the architectures of African economies by using emerging technologies to improve productivity and in the process deliver…
