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Carbon teams up with Visa to enable payments across Africa

Carbon, a pan-African FinTech company providing access to basic financial services for Africans, has today announced a strategic five-year partnership with Visa, the world leader in digital payments, to offer both...

Employees who argued with IT department about updates were allowed to use...

Twenty-one percent of local employees have previously had a dispute with IT staff about the importance or frequency of updating their work devices. Surprisingly, IT teams tend to agree with such demands and let 47% of...

SMEs feeling economic pinch turn to innovative tech platforms to save cash

More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and South Africa’s SMEs remain under enormous pressure and are increasingly looking to technology for ways to control costs and manage cash flow more effectively. “A seemingly eas...

Why a wave of technology giants will come from Africa

Ian Lessem, Managing Partner at HAVAÍC, investors in early-stage, high-growth technology businesses, has noted a significant increase in investment demand for African technology start-ups. He said start-ups on the ...

SA start-up, AURA, on what it takes to go global

AURA, South Africa’s leading security and medical response platform, recently announced its expansion into Kenya, followed closely by a move into the UK where it aims to have over 10,000 users receiving the company’s ser...

Kenyan retail-tech start-up Tanda secures funding for regional expansion from...

Kenyan agency banking start-up, Tanda, is expanding its operations regionally after securing funding from early-stage African tech investor, HAVAÍC, Zedcrest Capital, DFS Lab, Victor Asemota and three other investors. ...

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