This week Tunisian startup InstaDeep's co-founder Zohra Slim joined the podcast and shared the human story behind the successful artificial intelligence and machine learning startup and how you maintain startup culture even when your company grows.

This week, the team caught up with Amitruck founder and CEO Mark Mwangi. The Kenyan startup has created a digital logistics marketplace and is helping Kenyans secure transport directly from truck drivers and owners by cutting out the need for brokers.

This week the team chat to Startupbootcamp AfriTech co-founder Zachariah George about venture capital and angel investing in Africa and what he is looking for in the next generation of tech startups on the continent.

In the second instalment of the new Connecting Africa Podcast the team chat to Life.file co-founders Sinal Govender and Claire Keet who are approaching legal tech in a very unique way and helping people get their ducks in a row before they die.

This is the pilot episode of the new Connecting Africa Podcast. In this episode the team talk about M-Pesa's origin story, the evolution of mobile money beyond just payments and how telcos are now offering financial services. We also discuss the rise of the African 'Super App' and whether the continent is embracing crypto currencies.