What The Tech Africa

Growth Strategies for Tech Startups Part II

What does it take to create and implement a successful startup growth strategy that enables growth and success?
Founder and Tech PR Consultant at Abiola Bonuola Communications, Abiola Bonuola, walks us through this episode with a focus on how marketing communications and media management can help tech startups grow.

Growth Strategies for Tech Startups

What does it take to create and implement a successful startup growth strategy that enables growth and success?
The Growth Manager at MyStash, Odunmolorun Osineye, walks us through in this episode.

Inside the Metaverse, NFTs and Web3

Metaverse, NFTs and Web3 are three words that have dominated the Tech space in 2022. 
 
A Blockchain/Bitcoin/Lightning Developer, Raphael Osaze Eyerin, helps us better understand what these words mean in this episode.

Digitalizing Health Care in Nigeria

After Nigeria exceeded expectations in its handling of the covid-19 pandemic, the health tech startup industry (electronic health records, telemedicine etc) in the country has shown some potential.
 
Mopelola Lauretta Hamza, Founder & Co-owner, Yalanda, in this episode, speaks to the issues, challenges and opportunities involved in digitizing healthcare in Nigeria.

Does Africa Need Another Fintech Company?

Does it seem like there is a Fintech company everywhere you turn?
 
In 2021, Statista reported 576 fintech startups with headquarters in Africa and more than $2 billion worth of investments have been raised from 2021 to 2022 alone by Fintechs.
 
Onyinye Oguego, Cofounder at MyStash, opens this season with an answer to the question, Does Africa Need Another FinTech Company?

Global Expansion For African Tech And Its Impact

African startups are taking the risky bet of expanding beyond the continent for growth and profits.  In 2020, Nigerian mobile money service announced, Paga, announced expansion plans to Mexico and the Philippines as part of a $10 million funding round, while Swvl, the Egyptian bus-hailing service, has also expanded to Pakistan where it currently operates in three cities. The launch of Helium Health, an electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital management information (HMI) systems provider, into Kenya, among many other expansion moves by African tech firms, is remarkable.
As many tech companies envision providing services beyond borders, this episode has Mide Alonge of Endeavor Africa dissecting how tech startups can expand globally and the implication of such milestone. 

Which African Country Could Become The Next Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in the South San Francisco Bay Area, made notable by the number of technology companies that started and are headquartered there, including Apple, Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook, Netflix and other Fortune 500 companies. It sets the gold standard as a tech hub, so there is little wonder that so many locations around the world are attempting to emulate its success or perhaps become the next Silicon Valley.  
However, as there are projections that some African states will soon rise to the status of being dubbed Silicon Valley, one wound wonder which African country first will achieve such feat.
Co-founder of Future Africa, Olabinjo Adeniran, navigates us to the location of Africa’s Silicon Valley.

How Did Lagos Become Nigeria’s Tech Capital

Eko, as Lagos is called by the locals, has been dubbed by some as the Silicon Valley of Africa, with investors from around the world coming to invest millions of dollars yearly and producing some of Africa’s best startups such as Iroko TV, Jobberman, Flutterwave, Paystack and more.  
This episode of What The Tech Africa, the Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Government on Technology, Olatubosun Alake, talks about How Lagos Became Nigeria’s Tech Capital.

Digitalising The Economy: Is Crypto The Future Of Money?

The Crypto industry as a whole has seen a momentous year of growth heavily spurred by the entrance of institutional investors adopting bitcoin and African tech enthusiasts are not far behind. For now, it serves mainly as investment purposes, but can it disrupt financial institutions to become the future of money?
The CEO of Bitnob, Bernard Parah, gives his perspective to this.

The Impact of Tech On Entertainment Industry

The advancement of technology has helped people all over Africa numerous ways. One area that has seen a paradigm shift is the entertainment industry. Sure, entertainment can, in one form or another, be traced back to the dawn of man. However, Technology has lifted entertainment to a whole new level in Africa.
An international phenomenon who blossomed in this tech driven era, Oxlade, analyzes the impact of tech on showbiz.