Building Bytes

Verifibuy (formerly Kudigo) was recently named one of the fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times, in this episode, we spoke with Verifibuy's CEO Irina Oduro about how they are building technology to support commerce activities of micro, small and medium enterprises in Ghana and Nigeria.

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Opportunities

⁠Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for MSME Advisors & Entrepreneurs by GIZ

Three Questions is a new extension of the Building Bytes podcast, on this show, we ask your favourite tech personalities quick-fire questions to get to know them better.

This is an episode with Ebenezer Ghanney co-founder and CEO of WeWire.

Ebenezer Ghanney founded WeWire to make B2B payments possible for all businesses across the world after leaving Yellowcard where he was employee number one in Ghana and led business operations.

In this episode, we learn about his journey as an entrepreneur, building WeWire and his general thoughts on the fintech industry in Ghana and globally.

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Opportunities

⁠⁠AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship⁠⁠

⁠⁠McKinsey & Company Forward Program⁠

Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for MSME Advisors & Entrepreneurs by GIZ

Three Questions is a new extension of the Building Bytes podcast, on this show, we ask your favourite tech personalities quick-fire questions to get to know them better.

This is an episode with Joseph-Albert Kuuire founder and editor of Tech Labari.

In 2017, Joseph-Albert Kuuire founded Tech Labari to address the increasing demand for high-quality local tech reporting on Ghana's tech ecosystem.

In this episode of Building Bytes, we chat with him about their seven-year journey as a tech news publication covering Ghana and Africa as a whole.

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Opportunities

⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship⁠⁠

⁠⁠AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship⁠⁠

⁠⁠McKinsey & Company Forward Program⁠

In 2012 Sandister Tei co-founded Wikimedia Ghana User Group a community of volunteer editors focused on improving and promoting Wikipedia's knowledge projects in Ghana.

In this episode, we ‘delved’ into the birth of the community, and the role they play in advancing digital literacy among others.

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Opportunities

⁠⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship⁠

⁠AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship⁠

⁠McKinsey & Company Forward Program

For most software businesses in Ghana, accessibility is an afterthought but in this conversation with Derrick Omari we learn about why building inclusive products is a good business case and how to approach this mind shift.

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Opportunities

⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship

McKinsey & Company Forward Program

We had an exciting conversation with Paul Damalie who recently exited his startup Appruve to Smile ID.

We learnt about the early days of Appruve, what inspired the exit and what Paul is up to these days at Damalie Innovation Holdings Group.

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Production partner: Kweku Tech

Opportunities

⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

What are the indications of a real product market for African startups? What does it take to achieve real product market fit? 

We got answers for these and more in our conversation with Bright Ahedor serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Kudigo and Startup mentor at MEST Africa with over a decade of experience building, leading and mentoring African startups.

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Opportunities

Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

As we slowly welcome ourselves back from the internet blackout that hit major parts of Africa including Ghana, we had a conversation with telecommunication and software expert Raphael Acquah who currently leads software strategy at MTN Ghana to have an understanding of Ghana’s internet infastrusture and how it all works.

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Opportunities

⁠⁠⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund