Flutterwave Welcomes Dipo Fatokun & Tosin Faniro-Dada on Board
Flutterwave, Africa’s payments technology company in Africa, has appointed Dipo Fatokun as the new Chairman of Flutterwave Technologies Solutions Limited, reinforcing its commitment to the highest regulatory, compliance, and governance standards. Mr. Fatokun brings over 30 years of extensive experience across various domains including banking services, finance, strategy, advisory, leadership,
Read moreFlutterwave Welcomes Dipo Fatokun & Tosin Faniro-Dada to Board
Flutterwave, Africa’s payments technology company in Africa, has appointed Dipo Fatokun as the new Chairman of Flutterwave Technologies Solutions Limited, reinforcing its commitment to the highest regulatory, compliance, and governance standards. Mr. Fatokun brings over 30 years of extensive experience across various domains including banking services, finance, strategy, advisory, leadership,
Read moreLightspeed’s Alex Kayyal will talk Series A pitfalls at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024
There is perhaps no bigger jump for a startup to make than from the incubatory seed stage to its Series A round. Given how large a step-up landing a Series A can be, there are many guidelines out there. But most seem to be a little outdated in today’s market.
Read moreThe intersection of consumer protection and cybersecurity in insurance
In an increasingly digitised world, where personal data serves as a cornerstone of modern economies, the intersection of consumer protection and cybersecurity becomes paramount, particularly within the realm of long-term insurance. This intersection is of utmost importance in safeguarding policyholders’ data privacy, a fundamental aspect of trust and integrity within
Read moreAliExpress is first online marketplace to face DSA investigation by EU
The European Union has opened its third formal investigation of a very large platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA), with China’s AliExpress earning itself the dubious honor of being the first online marketplace to face formal probe by the Commission. The DSA is the bloc’s rebooted ecommerce rules which
Read moreProton Mail desktop app officially launches, but remains for premium subscribers only
Proton Mail, the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email service from Swiss company Proton, is now officially available via a dedicated desktop app some three months after debuting in beta. However, despite previous claims that the client would be available to all Proton Mail users in early 2024, the company has decided
Read moreLago, a Paris-based open source billing platform, banks $22M
A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after making a successful pivot into billing — a space it discovered was even more broken among potential customers. Lago, developer of an open-source billing platform, has picked up the funding across two rounds of
Read moreAccelerating Archimedes
One way to approximate π is to find the areas of polygons inscribed inside a circle and polygons circumscribed outside the circle. The approximation improves as the number of sides in the polygons increases. This idea goes back at least as far as Archimedes (287–212 BC). Maybe you’ve tried this.
Read moreWhat African B2B e-commerce startups can learn from OmniRetail’s profitable run
Save for fintech and cleantech, B2B e-commerce and retail was the leading destination for venture capital dollars over the last five years. The premise of digitizing the continent’s mom-and-pop convenience stores and offering various solutions to streamline logistics and procurement processes saw hundreds of millions of dollars flood the segment,
Read moreAvanti Communications Welcomes New Sales Director
Avanti Communications (Avanti) has appointed industry veteran Chris van Rooyen as its new Sales Director. With a decade of success at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, van Rooyen brings his extensive market knowledge and 25 years of telecommunications expertise to spearhead enterprise sales at Avanti in South Africa. In his new role,
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