Asili Africa

This is the story of a factory that built a town and then killed it. And the Kenyan industrialist who, seven years later, bought what was left for nine hundred million shillings ag…

This is the story of an Indian born industrialist who already had a port, an industrial zone, and the president's phone number in two small Francophone countries, and who decided t…

This is the story of two parallel companies, one in South Africa, one in the United Kingdom, that were rolled up by a third, dragged through losses that should have killed them, re…

This is the story of two college kids, a Taco Bell back room, a near death encounter with the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the African crypto company that just convinced Mastercard…

This is the company that walked into African gaming, found the wall between players and payments, and built the rail that broke it.

A branchless digital bank backed by Patrice Motsepe's African Rainbow Capital set out to crack South Africa's big-four banking oligopoly by signing up customers at supermarket kios…

The Ghanaian fintech that called itself the Alipay for Africa, raised roughly eighty six million dollars from Insight Partners and a top tier syndicate of Silicon Valley names on c…

This is the story of Swvl. The first African company on Nasdaq. The cautionary tale that came home with it.

Two friends. Two laptops. Two thousand dollars. And a bet on mathematics that the rest of the world said could not be made from there. This is the story of InstaDeep.

This is the story of Wave. The app that beat a telecom at its own game, by charging almost nothing.

This is the story of how Tesh Mbaabu spent six years building Africa's most-funded business-to-business retail platform, watched it die, and walked out of the wreckage to build two…

This is the story of Sun King. The kerosene replacement company that became a finance company, and is now becoming a utility.

This is the story of Chipper Cash. The pan African remittance company that rode the cheapest capital in the history of African fintech to the top, and then had to teach itself how…

This is the story of Moniepoint. The boring software company that walked up the stack until it became one of Africa's most important consumer banks.

The Los Angeles fintech that decided the phone in a Kenyan stranger's pocket was a better paper trail than any payslip.

This is the story of how an ATM in Scotland accidentally founded Africa's first homegrown fintech unicorn. And of the engineer who built it without ever owning it.

This is the story of how one Zimbabwean engineer built a global telecoms empire by refusing to pay a bribe. And then sued his own government, all the way to the constitutional cour…

This is the story of an idea so good it raised three hundred and eighty one million dollars in seven years, made the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative write its first major investment che…

This is the story of how a Tanzanian sports television broadcaster, with a twenty thousand dollar prize and a Stanford degree, built a remittance app, watched the regulator kill it…

This is the story of a Berlin-incorporated, French-founded, Delaware-listed, Dubai-managed company that was sold to Wall Street as the Amazon of Africa, and of what was left of tha…