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.
📌 Welcome to the second half of the year, friends. To bring it in in style, today’s edition is free to read for all subscribers.
• Six financing transactions totaling over $30M in disclosed funding were announced.
• In brief: Poverty is concentrating in sub-Saharan Africa. An investor’s perspective of what went wrong at Copia Global. A look at the latest reporting on now-defunct African crypto firm Mara.
• Organizations appearing in today’s Week in Review: PAIX, Peleza, Prospa, Go Big Partners, Apis Partners, Janngo Capital, Chanzo Capital, Copia Global, Consize, & more.
• Executives appearing: Safaricom’s Peter Ndegwa, BasiGo’s Jit Bhattacharya, Flou…