Afridigest Week in Review: How many new unicorns will be minted in 2024? 🦄
Afridigest is your intelligent guide to tech in Africa. This Afridigest Week in Review helps you stay in the know about what happened in Africa Tech last week.
📌 ICYMI: Since last Monday’s newsletter, we published 'Visa, Mastercard, and the fight for the future of fintech in Africa' and the '2023 Africa Tech investor funding highlights.'
• Organizations appearing in today’s Week in Review: Seedstars Africa Ventures, Future Africa, Founders Factory Africa, the Catalyst Fund, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Amazon, Naspers, SweepSouth, TymeBank, Moove, Wasoko, Moniepoint, Spotify, and more.
• Executives appearing: Convergence Partners’ Andile Ngcaba, Future Africa’s Iyin Aboyeji and Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani, Ventures Platform’s Kola Aina, Maplerad’s Edidiong Ekong, SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor and Lourandi Kriel, Novastar’s Sapna Shah, Outlierz Ventures’ Kenza Lahlou, 500 Global’s Mareme Dieng, Sparkle’s Uzoma Dozie, LoftyInc’s Idris Bello, EchoVC’s Eghosa Omoigui, Iroko’s Jason Njoku, and more.
And with that said, let’s get into it.
