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Sourced · 9 min read · Sep 1

She was living abroad when Kenya burned. She came back and built the tools her country needed — first to be seen, then to stay connected.

Sourced · 8 min read · Aug 29

Three Americans walked into Safaricom's offices in Nairobi. Only three businesses were on Lipa Na M-Pesa. They left having changed that forever.

Sourced · 6 min read · Aug 24

He arrived in Nairobi with four PowerPoint slides and no product. M-KOPA has since disbursed $2 billion.

Sourced · 5 min read · Aug 24

How a $1 Billion AgTech Exit Inspired Apollo Agriculture to Back Hundreds of Thousands of Kenyan Farmers

Commerce & Retail

Sourced · 6 min read · Aug 16

It raised $123M to bring e-commerce to rural Kenya. Twelve years later, it was gone.

Sourced · 9 min read · Aug 13

The Story of Nala

Sourced · 5 min read · Aug 12

From a notebook of frustrations to a focused product

Sourced · 6 min read · Aug 5

He watched countries plant more seed than the US and still harvest less. That gap became Apollo Agriculture.

Sourced · 5 min read · Jul 28

Turaco's founder says he threw the insurance textbook away on day one. Now it covers 4 million people.

Sourced · 4 min read · Jul 27

They built A Robot Arm That Can Translate Sign Languag

Climate & Energy

Sourced · 2 min read · Jul 26

A stranger saw him building solar lanterns from PVC tubes at 2am and asked if he needed help. Sun King now reaches 1 in 5 Kenyan households.

Logistics & Mobility

Sourced · 7 min read · Jul 25

For three days, Nairobi's buses stopped. Mount Kenya appeared 200km away. He never forgot it.

Sourced · 7 min read · Jul 23

Before the interpreter never showed up

Sourced · 7 min read · Jul 23

"Uncle Kimathi can grow his produce, knowing Seattle needs it." The founder who wants farmers in the driving seat.

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Sep 12026

She was living abroad when Kenya burned. She came back and built the tools her country needed — first to be seen, then to stay connected.

uliana Rotich didn't set out to build a technology company. She set out to solve two specific problems — one about truth, one about infrastructure — and ended up building some of the most consequential open-source technology ever made in Africa.

Aug 292026

Three Americans walked into Safaricom's offices in Nairobi. Only three businesses were on Lipa Na M-Pesa. They left having changed that forever.

How Ben Lyon, Dylan Higgins, and Tom Bostelmann built the infrastructure that put mobile payments in every barbershop, butchery, and mitumba stall in Kenya — and why their story never got told the way it deserved.

Aug 282026

ecosystemFounders Fund Africa opens — Chocolate City Group backs creative economy accelerator

Chocolate City Group, Argentil Capital Management, and CcHUB launched Founders Fund Africa, a creative-economy accelerator for founders in music, film, media, and creative tech. Applications closed…

TechCabal·2w ago

insightsNigerian bank stocks: what ₦100,000 became in 8 months

TechCabal's returns analysis shows what a ₦100,000 investment in Nigeria's top bank stocks (GTB, Zenith, Access, UBA, First Bank) at the start of 2026 is worth by August, amid NGX's strong 2025–202…

TechCabal·2w ago

Aug 272026

insightsUBA under Tony Elumelu — 10 charts on 12 years of transformation

TechCabal's data analysis tracks UBA's 12-year expansion under chairman Tony Elumelu from a Nigerian bank into a pan-African group operating in 20+ countries, published as Elumelu announced a leade…

TechCabal·2w ago

insightsAI tools save African workers 11 hours a week — but 87% of leaders can't identify what the company gained

A Tech Safari/Lua webinar cited research showing workers save 11 hours weekly with AI tools, but only 13% of leaders can point to a concrete organizational benefit — a productivity-to-value capture…

TechCabal·2w ago

marketOPay eyes Nigerian Stock Exchange listing — could become Africa's largest fintech IPO

SoftBank-backed OPay is reportedly exploring an NGX listing, per TechCabal's daily newsletter. If completed it would rank among the largest tech IPOs in African history. No terms or timeline disclo…

TechCabal·2w ago