African Tech Round-up — On Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 the international African Tech Roundup LIVE Tour launched with a live podcast event in The Netherlands dubbed #VillageDiariesAmsterdam. For the second (and final part) of the evening's progra

Secha Capital's Rushil Vallabh & Brendan Mullen on delivering on a hybrid SME investment model

Jul 5th, 2018 33m 36s

African Tech Round-up — South African Rushil Vallabh and American Brenden Mullen are the co-founders and co-managing directors of a Johannesburg-based, venture capital outfit called Secha Capital. Secha’s mission is to “provide patient capital

Cellulant's Ken Njoroge & Velocity Capital's Allard Luchsinger on 2018's biggest fintech deal so far

Jun 28th, 2018 46m 50s

African Tech Round-up — A couple of hours before the recent #VillageDiariesAmsterdam event, Andile Masuku managed to land a sit-down with Cellulant Founder and CEO, Ken Njoroge, and Director of Private Equity at Velocity Capital, Allard Luchsin

121: #VillageDiariesAmsterdam - A fireside chat with HYBR Founder and CEO Charles Ojei

Jun 22nd, 2018 55m 24s

African Tech Round-up — On Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 the international African Tech Roundup LIVE Tour launched with a live event in The Netherlands dubbed #VillageDiariesAmsterdam.For the first part of the programme, hosts Andile Masuku and Musa

HEADS UP: Andile and Musa are going to Amsterdam

Jun 1st, 2018 9m 45s

African Tech Round-up — Look out, Amsterdam! We're coming!

Joel Macharia of Abacus on creating access to African financial markets via micro investments

May 28th, 2018 13m 18s

African Tech Round-up — Joel Macharia is the Founder and CEO of Abacus (https://abacus.co.ke), a Kenyan fintech firm that builds web and mobile software designed to help people anywhere in the world gain access to African financial markets. Joe

Edmund Olotu of TechAdvance on building out digital payments infrastructure in Nigeria

May 21st, 2018 19m 16s

African Tech Round-up — In this conversation with Andile Masuku, TechAdvance CEO, Edmund Olotu, sketches Nigeria's digital payments infrastructure landscape and explains why he feels the time is right for his company to participate more activel

120: Interoperability, Data Ownership & Steward Ownership feat. Oliver Sauter of WorldBrain

May 13th, 2018 1h 21m

African Tech Round-up — In this episode of the African Tech Roundup podcast, Co-founder and Head of Strategy, Product & Operations at https://WorldBrain.io joins Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga for a meandering conversation that explores the lin

Boomplay Music's Chinasa Udeala on delivering Africa-relevant music streaming services

May 10th, 2018 8m 26s

African Tech Round-up — Chinasa Udeala is Regional Director for East Africa at Boomplay Music. The music streaming platform is a subsidiary of the Chinese firm Transsnet Ltd which also owns TECNO Mobile. In this quick chat with Andile Masuku, C

Helen Anatogu of Nigeria's iDEA incubator on how African founders should position to land funding

May 2nd, 2018 22m 22s

African Tech Round-up — Helen Anatogu is the Chief Executive and Programme Director of the Information Technology Developer Entrepreneurship Accelerator (IDEA) in Nigeria.In this throwback conversation with Andile Masuku – taped at the African

YegoMoto's Karanvir Singh on surfing the mobility wave to launch an ambitious platform play

Apr 24th, 2018 36m 53s

African Tech Round-up — Kigali-based Singaporean, Karanvir Singh, is the CEO and MD of Yego Innovision Ltd— a company which has launched a cashless transport service called YegoMoto in Rwanda, which is essentially an 'Uber for motorcycle taxis'

119: Unpacking Facebook's Breaches of Trust + Blockchain Straight Talk feat. Marvin Coleby

Apr 12th, 2018 22m 7s

African Tech Round-up — It's fair to say that Facebook is the elephant in pretty much every room at the moment. In this month's instalment of the African Tech Roundup podcast, Marvin Coleby joins Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga to factor in on s

NISK Capital's Sara Oon on providing turnkey startup and SME advisory in East Africa

Apr 6th, 2018 14m 5s

African Tech Round-up — Singaporean Sara Oon is the Kigali-based Co-Founder and Partner at NISK Capital, a Nairobi-based boutique advisory and investment outfit serving Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Sara holds business degrees from Princeton Univer

RapidLion Film Festival Eric Miyeni on African cinema asserting itself on the global stage

Apr 2nd, 2018 25m 38s

African Tech Round-up — The runaway global success of the Marvel blockbuster sensation, Black Panther has ignited debate about the influence and business potential of African cinema. In this Mapo Radio (http://bit.ly/MapoRadio) interview, Themb

Caine Wanjau of Twiga Foods on the challenges of scaling a profitable business

Mar 26th, 2018 17m 16s

African Tech Round-up — Caine Wanjau is the Chief Technology Officer of Twiga Foods, a Nairobi-based distributor of fresh fruit produce that's leveraging tech to introduce business efficiencies to one of Kenya's more logistically-challenged ind

Insight Publicis Nigeria's Feyi Olubodun on his book The Villager: How Africans Consume Brands

Mar 20th, 2018 45m 9s

African Tech Round-up — Feyi Olubudun’s new book, The Villager: How Africans Consume Brands, puts forward a lens for helping Africa-focussed brands and businesses achieve commercial success by correcting their perception of the African Consumer

Lagos Angel Network's Collins Onuegbu on traditional angel investment vs. business angel funding

Mar 12th, 2018 15m 32s

African Tech Round-up — Collins Onuegbu is the Nigerian Founder of Signal Alliance as well as a Director of Lagos Angel Network.In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at African Tech Summit Kigali 2018 (https://www.africatechsummit.com

118: A Peek Under the Hood Of South Africa's Mobility Scene feat. Obakeng Morapeli Matlhoko

Mar 8th, 2018 1h 24m

African Tech Round-up — Back on the show for the first time since contributing his fair share of involuntary hot takes on Episode 109 entitled "Investor Bias Debate 2.0 + Should Africa Embrace Uberisation?" (http://bit.ly/investorbias) Tapsnapp

Andela's Wambui Kinya unpacks Andela's gig economy strategy and addresses common misconceptions

Mar 5th, 2018 30m 6s

African Tech Round-up — Wambui Kinya is the Chief Strategy Officer at Andela-- a tech startup helping companies overcome tech talent shortages by delivering high performing distributed engineering teams that leverage some of Africa's finest cod

Karabo Songo and Musa Kalenga of House of Brave on evolving creative agency models

Feb 25th, 2018 49m 29s

African Tech Round-up — Karabo Songo and Musa Kalenga are the savvy business minds behind FastGro-- the 100% black-owned investment firm which just acquired a 25.1% share of the independent agency House ofBrave (HOB). As part of the deal, Karab

Venture Garden's Bunmi Akinyemiju on Sure Remit's ICO success

Feb 22nd, 2018 36m 45s

African Tech Round-up — Bunmi Akinyemiju is Co-founder and CEO of Nigeria's Venture Garden Group. Bunmi has over 16 years of entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, and has so far led the development

Feb 19th, 2018 9m 3s

African Tech Round-up — So, we invited friends of the African Tech Roundup podcast to join us for drinks at the Kigali Marriott's Iriba Bar between 4:30 PM and 6:00 PM on Feb 13th, 2018-- the day before the Africa Tech Summit Kigali conference.

117: The Fake News Episode feat. Anim Van Wyk of Africa Check

Feb 5th, 2018 39m 56s

African Tech Round-up — We aren't even halfway through the first quarter of 2018 but already, we've seen a fair amount of questionable 'factual' content do the rounds on social media.In this episode of the African Tech Roundup, AfricaCheck.org

Lidya's Tunde Kehinde on addressing Nigeria's $30 billion small business credit gap

Jan 30th, 2018 36m 47s

African Tech Round-up — Tunde Kehinde is the co-founder of Lidya, a branchless internet bank that aims to ease Nigeria's estimated $30 billion small business credit gap. Tunde holds a honours degree in finance from Howard University and an MBA

Kola Aina of Ventures Platform reckons African capital and local context are underrated

Jan 22nd, 2018 20m 21s

African Tech Round-up — Kola Aina is the Founder and CEO of the Nigerian-based pan-African seed-stage fund and accelerator, Ventures Platform. The firm's portfolio includes well-publicised Nigerian rising startup stars like Paystack and Printiv