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Fintech · Consumer · Enterprise
The App That Found Its Business in a Bank Transfer
Afriex’s founders tried a chatbot and a trivia game. The nuisance that survived both experiments - moving money between the US and Nigeria - became their company, then a much larger payments network.
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Fintech · Enterprise · Developer Tools
InTouch Wants Africa’s Payments to Meet at One Counter
A Dakar shopkeeper’s tangle of payment services became a business spanning 27 African countries. InTouch’s bet is that the shop counter still matters, even when the money moves online.
african-fintech · payment-aggregationRead →
Vc · Fintech · Ai
DFS Is Betting Africa’s Next Tech Boom Won’t Look Like Silicon Valley
The firm once known as DFS Lab spent a decade studying how money and commerce move across frontier markets. Now it is turning that fieldwork into an investment thesis for AI, industry and the infrastructure in between.
africa-venture-capital · early-stage-investingRead →