Techpoint Africa Podcast
The Techpoint Africa Podcast brings you the most important stories of the week on startups, technology and innovation in Africa. Listen in every Thursday afternoon (WAT). You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn or anywhere else you get your podcasts
Episodes
May 2, 2024 • 44 mins
Our guest on today's podcast is Ray Youssef, CEO, NoOnes. We discuss Nigeria's recent clampdown on Binance and crypto and what happened with his last company, Paxful.
But before that, we highlight a few stories from this week.
- BuuPass acquires QuickBus
- CBN stops Moniepoint, Kuda, OPay from opening new accounts
- MTN Nigeria records first loss since 2021 IPO
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April 25, 2024 • 48 mins
Our guest on today's podcast is Rosemond Phil-Othihiwa, Corporate and Startup Lawyer. She joins us as we discuss:
- The Thepeer audit
- South Africa's approved crypto asset providers
- Nigeria's first multilingual LLM
Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/only-once-have-nigerian-fintech-startups-raised-more-than-1-billion-in-a-single-year/
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April 18, 2024 • 45 mins
Our guest on today's podcast is Temitope Adeyemi, CEO and Founder, insurtech startup, Pay-U. He joins us as we discuss:
- Pula's $20m raise
- Starlink's troubles in Africa
- Lessons from building Konga by Sim Shagaya
Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/multichoices-revenue-has-been-growing-at-an-average-of-4/
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April 13, 2024 • 48 mins
On guest on today's podcast is Dr Olumide Okubadejo, Head of Product at Sabi and AI researcher. We discuss:
- Africa's AI strategy
- Zimbabwe's gold-backed currency
- Jump n' Pass partnering Justrite
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April 4, 2024 • 31 mins
On today's podcast, we discuss:
- Thepeer's shutdown
- Sim Shagaya's VC foray
- Edo State's API for ride-hailing operators
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Thepeer shutdown
10:34 - Sim Shigaya's VC foray...
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March 28, 2024 • 36 mins
Today's podcast is all about Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and we have Michael Ugwu, NFT Collector, Angel Investor, and CEO Freeme Digital as our guest.
2021 was the year of NFTs, but once the bear run started, the rave died down. But the real question is, are NFTs dead? Michael answers this and more on today's episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast.
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March 21, 2024 • 41 mins
Today's podcast sees us welcome a familiar face (Emmanuel Paul) as we discuss:
- New registration fees for Nigerian crypto exchanges
- Ethiopian bank loses $40 million to system glitch
- Nigeria's $593.6 million loss to Internet disruption
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March 13, 2024 • 42 mins
Our guest this week is Abubakar Idris, Tech Journalist at The Information and on this episode we discuss:
- Interswitch's 2023 financial report
- LemFi's expansion to China
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
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March 7, 2024 • 40 mins
On today's podcast, we discuss:
- Binance stopping naira deposits and withdrawals
- Nigeria fining Binance
- The Brass story
- MTN Nigeria's losses in 2023
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February 29, 2024 • 63 mins
On today's podcast, we discuss:
- The Nigerian government's relationship with crypto
- Nigeria's new Bureau de Change guidelines
- The hike in Nigeria's monetary policy rate
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February 21, 2024 • 30 mins
On today's podcast, we have Chijioke Dozie, CEO of Nigerian fintech, Carbon, talk to us about what it would take to give loans at scale in Nigeria.
This is a new format we're trying. Please let us know what you think via email (podcast@techpoint.africa) or in the Q & A section on Spotify.
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February 15, 2024 • 36 mins
Today's podcast discusses:
- Content creators registering with CAC, paying taxes
- Carbon's acquisition of Vella Finance
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - CAC and content creators
12:54 - Carbon acquires Vella F...
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February 8, 2024 • 35 mins
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Today's podcast discusses
- Mastercard gaining 3.8% shares in MTN MoMo
- MultiChoice rejecting Canal+ bid
- CBN's six months target for recertification of PoS terminals to fight fraud
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February 1, 2024 • 35 mins
Today's podcast discusses
- Moniepoint's growth in 2023
- Nigerian PoS terminals get fraud-flagging feature
- Sony invests in Carry1st
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January 25, 2024 • 24 mins
Today's podcast discusses:
- Funding decline in Africa
- Amazon Prime Video's layoffs in Africa
- Anambra State's partnership to adopt the Nigeria Startup Act
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January 18, 2024 • 38 mins
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Here's what we discussed today:
- Kippa's ₦30 milllion internal fraud loss
- Iyin Aboyeji's YCombinator for Africa
- Access Corp's lending app, Oxygen X
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January 11, 2024 • 38 mins
Happy New Year listeners!
Welcome back to the Techpoint Africa Podcast. We missed recording for you guys and we begin the year discussing some truly interesting stories.
What we discussed:
- Nigeria's stablecoin
- Kuda's PoS terminal for businesses
- Fez Delivery's Safe Lockers
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December 21, 2023 • 70 mins
This episode is also available on YouTube - https://youtu.be/OFGzPnu-SC8
This week on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss the African tech space's top stories from this week and 2023. Its a full house, and the whole gang is in the studio.
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December 14, 2023 • 53 mins
This episode is also available on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Tk2iC4ZZ9XM
Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we take another trip down memory lane with two special guest as they share insights on this week's hot topics in the African tech space.
This week, we are joined by the very first hosts of our pilot episode: Tage Kene-Okafor, Africa Reporter,...
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December 7, 2023 • 57 mins
This episode is also available on YouTube - https://youtu.be/e7aYDlIapEg
Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we take a trip down memory lane with two special guest who share unusual insights on the hot topics in Africa's tech space this week.
We have TAP OGs, Muyiwa Matuluko and Omolara Oseni join us this week, and they begin today's episode by sharing how...
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