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The African Tech Startups As Engines Of Growth & Development report by Mozilla Corporation says government support for innovation and digital entrepreneurship must be much stronger than it currently is. The report is urging African governments to do more to deepen the talent pool available to the startup ecosystem.

Read>> Strategic policies needed to grow the startup ecosystem in Africa, Mozilla study https://techtrendske.co.ke/2024/03/01/strategic-policies-needed-to-grow-the-startup-ecosystem-in-africa-mozilla-study/

In this latest episode of our TechTrends Podcast, we sit down with Absa Bank Kenya's head of Card Products Pauline Munyoki and Samsung Mobile's Product and Marketing Manager.Absa BankBuy Now Lipa Pole Pole (BNPL) credit card option provides a quick and flexible alternative for users. In this episode, Pauline dives deep into the product while Rehema shares her insights on their partnership with Absa around the product.

In this interview, we sit down with OPPO Kenya's PR Manager Fredrique Achieng to discuss the company's operation and plans for the Kenyan market.

In this interview, TechTrends Media's Tech Editor Nixon Kanali sit down with Joseph Umunakwe, General Manager - West, East & Central Africa for HMD Global to discuss the company's journey and its plans for the Kenyan market.

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Kuramo Capital Management, a Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) focused investment management firm has revealed plans to invest $150 million (Ksh. 22 billion) in supporting female-led startups across Africa over the next 10 years.

The investment will be done under the firm’s Moremi Platform, an initiative to empower the next generation of African women enterprises and promote gender-equitable fund management.

The Moremi platform is a three-pillar initiative involving an accelerator program, a warehousing/lending facility and a Fund of funds.

The firm has unveiled the first cohort of the accelerator program, which also serves as a mentorship, capacity building and technical assistance platform, targeting 40 female entrepreneurs and fund managers annually. Read more.

Music track: A Positive Direction by Aylex

During NOVACOM Summits’ first-ever African edition of the Digital Transformation Strategy Summit in Cape Town South Africa, we also sat down with Pauline Macharia, the CEO & Founder of ReImagine Plus to to talk about digital transformation in Africa.

Pauline shares his insights on Human Centric Digital Transformation and what telcos and organisations in Africa need to do to drive this growth.

Music track: A Positive Direction by Aylex

In this interview, Ryan Sher, Group Chief Operations Officer | West Indian Ocean Cable ( WIOCC GROUP) talks to me about how the company is accelerating digital transformation in Africa.

In this interview, I sit down with Dr Willie Oosthuysen, Chief Strategy Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies to discuss the digital transformation journey in Africa.

Youverify, the regtech company building full-cycle global compliance products for businesses has officially entered the Kenyan market.

Read > Youverify Officially Brings its Full Cycle Compliance Solutions to Kenya https://techtrendske.co.ke/2023/05/26/youverify-officially-brings-its-full-cycle-compliance-solutions-to-kenya/

In this interview icolo.io CEO Ranjith Cherickel talks about the firm's recently launched new data centre in Mombasa, the firm's direction as well as how Kenya stands to benefit from the increased co-location data centre supply in the region.

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