Afridigest Week in Review: MultiChoice & the myth of the African middle class
Afridigest is your intelligent guide to tech in Africa. The Afridigest Week in Review helps you stay in the know about what happened in Africa Tech last week.
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On to the highlights from the first half of June:
• Eight debt & equity financing transactions totaling over $15M in disclosed funding were announced
• News of the month: JSE-listed South African payTV platform MultiChoice release its FY24 earnings results and it offers some important market context.
• Organizations appearing in today’s Week in Review: Emerging Tech Ventures, EdVentures, Wasoko, MaxAB, & others.
• Executives appearing: Oraneg Ventures’ Brelotte Ba, Ingressive Capital’s Maya Horgan Famodu, Oui Capital’s Olu Oyinsan, Intron Health’s Tobi Olatunji, Atlantica Ventures’ Aniko Szigetvari, Village Capital’s Reem Goussous, Helios Investment Partners’ Tope Lawani, The Transcript’s Erick Mokaya, Abdul-Karim Mohamed, Joris de Vries, Marie Lora-Mungai, Victor Asemota, & others.
And with that said, let’s get into it.
June 1-15, 2024
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