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We asked Olamide Ilori, Lead Engineer at Prospa, a thought-provoking question: Would you teach a junior dev to code or to prompt? He shared his insights on prioritizing coding skills. In our conversation, he also discussed Prospa's mission to empower Africa's high-growth businesses and his role leading the engineering team. Notably, he emphasized AI's role as a companion to engineers, not a replacement. Full episode drops on Monday. #todayafrica #startupstories

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“…The two have now co-founded Thunder Code, a generative AI-powered software testing platform, which has already secured $9 million in seed funding, they told TechCrunch…”

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🚀 Excited to Launch My New Agric-Based E-Learning Platform! 🌱💻 🔗 GitHub: https://lnkd.in/e-SEcVvr 🌍 Live Demo: https://lnkd.in/eKye9ru7 After months of design, development, and dedication, I'm proud to unveil an agriculture-focused e-learning platform—inspired by top-tier platforms like Udemy, but tailored specifically for the agricultural sector 🌾🧑‍🌾. 🌟 What Makes This Platform Special? ✅ Agric-focused Courses – Ranging from crop farming, livestock management, agribusiness, and sustainable practices. ✅ Instructor Dashboard – Empowering experienced farmers and professionals to create and monetize content. ✅ Student Experience – Smooth and intuitive course navigation, progress tracking, quizzes, and certificates. ✅ Fully Responsive – Built with mobile-first design using modern tools like React.js and Tailwind CSS, so it looks and works great on all devices 📱💻🖥. ✅ Secure & Scalable – Powered by a robust backend with user authentication and efficient course management. 🌍 Why This Matters to Agriculture Agriculture feeds the world, yet many communities lack accessible training to modernize their farming practices. This platform bridges the gap by offering: 🔹 Online agricultural education at scale 🔹 Empowerment for rural youth and farmers 🔹 A path to economic transformation through knowledge Whether you're a student, expert, or agri-enthusiast, this platform welcomes you to learn, teach, and grow! 🌻📚 🙏 I’m open to feedback, collaboration, and opportunities to scale this project further. Let's revolutionize agricultural education together! #Agritech #Elearning #ReactJS #TailwindCSS #Supabase #OpenSource #AgriInnovation #DigitalFarming #EdTech #ResponsiveDesign #WebDevelopment #GitHub #SoftwareDevelopment #FarmerEducation #SustainableFarming #AgricultureTransformation #TechForGood #FullStackDeveloper #CodingProjects #ReactDeveloper #ProudMoment #AgriLearning #FarmingEducation #AgriPlatform #AgriTechInnovation #LearningRevolution #MobileFirstDesign #AgroEducation

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‎Setting up a merchant account with Stripe or PayPal can be difficult in many developing nations. The "global" economy often excludes the global south. ‎ ‎On Base, your wallet is your Point of Sale. ‎ ‎A developer in Nigeria (like me) can sell a digital tool to a user in Germany without any intermediary blocking the transaction. ‎ ‎This flattens the world. It unleashes entrepreneurship where it is needed most. ‎

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The “Almost Built” Startup I once met an African founder who was two weeks away from launching. Landing page ready, with a very large CTA button stating "join the waitlist". Developers on standby who could pull off 3000 lines of codes in 1 hour. Marketing plan locked in, that seemed like they could own 50% of the market share. Out of curiosity, I asked a simple question: “How many real customers have you spoken to?” He paused. Then said, “We ran surveys. I sent out a couple google forms to a couple communities i joined” "Surveys aren’t conversations". - I immediately said Then i prompted that he had real conversations with an identified audience who actually faced the challenges he hypothesized. When we finally spoke to people in his supposed target market, something uncomfortable happened. They didn’t describe the problem the way he had framed it. What he thought was a daily pain was actually a minor inconvenience. What he thought users would pay for was something they had already learned to live without. That moment saved him months, of wasted effort. Because before ideas, before features, before scale, there must be clarity in the problem. Not a vague “people struggle with X,” but a sharp understanding of: who is hurting, why it hurts, and what happens if nothing changes. Testing isn’t about validating your brilliant idea. It’s about validating the pain. If the pain isn’t real, urgent, and repeated across a category, the market will tell you, brutally. The best founders I know don’t rush to build. They rush to understand. At Building Africa we are making customer and problem validation easier and seamless for African founders to build startups that captures the market by understanding the nuances that actually makes up the problem that started off as an hypothetical idea.

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One thing we’ve learned working with 100+ early-stage founders across Africa at Zuri VT is this: Funding conversations usually fail long before money is discussed, for one simple reason: because most startups haven’t been engineered to be engaged. What investors, partners, and institutions are really assessing isn’t passion or even "vision". - Is the business structure solid, or will it crash under the weight of funding or demand? - Will this become big enough? - Is there absolute clarity on the risks, and HOW to mitigate them? - Can this business survive scrutiny outside the pitch room. That’s where Fullstack Commercial Engineering (FCE) comes in. FCE is how we think about preparing startups properly for the ecosystem. Not just for fundraising, but for real engagement with: - Angels and early-stage funds - Venture studios and operators - Corporate and institutional partners. It’s about doing the boring, unglamorous, but important work early, to de-risk startups: - Making sure the market case is solid - Stress-testing revenue logic - Clarifying commercial risks - And aligning the business with how capital and partners actually think. We’re super excited to be kicking this off with a Funding Readiness Webinar next Tuesday, and hosting two powerhouses in African business and global funding, Teslim Bello-Osagie MSc. ACCA and Sofya Mesh. It’s for founders who want to stop guessing and start building businesses that are more likely to scale, and therefore easier to back. And for ecosystem partners who care about working with startups that are actually ready. If you’re building, supporting, or funding early-stage companies in Africa, Zuri VT is one partner to commit to. Details in the flyer.

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Why "Premium" is a Strategy, but "Accessibility" is a Legacy. If you think @Alain Nteff and Healthlane (YC W20) are just building an app, you’re looking at the wrong map. They are building an infrastructure. But in the Cameroon tech scene, even the best code hits a wall called "The Wallet." I sat down to analyze the Healthlane journey: • From GiftedMom to the $2.4M Milestone. • The genius (and the friction) of the Premium Model. • My Solution: How a "Micro-Subscription" could turn 10,000 users into 1 million. As a ghostwriter, I don’t just look at what companies are doing. I look at where they are going. Read the full analysis in my Featured section! #HealthTech #Healthlane #AlainNteff #237Tech #CameroonEconomy #StrategicGhostwriting #StartupSuccess #MelVevaAnalysis #BusinessStrategy #CameroonTech #Fintech #EmergingMarkets #BusinessAnalyst #BusinessConsultant #DigitalEconomy #237Tech #StrategicGhostwriting #MelVeva #AfricaTech #BusinessStrategy

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Climate-tech isn't the future. It's the NOW! Honoured to be discussing how to build viable ventures in this space with this powerhouse lineup! On Saturday, we're getting into the nuts and bolts of building a viable climate-tech venture in Africa. From funding to scaling, we'll cover it all. Set your reminders! This is one you don't want to miss. What's the most promising climate-tech solution you've seen emerge from the continent? Comment below 👇 Obaloluwa Dairo Adebola Odunsi Oreoluwa Ajayi, MGBCN Cynthia Wanderi Loveth Walker Tyler Ferdinand Brian Munene Consumer Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation (CADEF) Prof. Chiso Ndukwe-Okafor, MBA, MPA, EdD Senami Anko Dennis Okenwa Toluwalase Abiona Chinonso Ihuoma #Impact #ClimateTech #Ecospaces #Sustainability #Africa

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Afrikrea - Retro of a tech-cofounder The Genesis - Why We Built Africa's Largest E-commerce Export Platform When Moulaye and Kadry, my cofounders, approached me in December 2015 about building a marketplace for African businesses, I knew this was the opportunity I'd been waiting for. My tech journey started 20+ years ago with SiteDynamic CMS, making websites dynamic in the early 2000s using ASP and File System Objects. Primitive by today's standards, but it taught me the fundamentals of building software that solves real problems. But Afrikrea was different. This wasn't just about e-commerce, it was about connecting African creativity to global markets. As a child of an African parent born outside the continent, I was raised with the idea that I was meant to return and contribute one day. Despite growing up and traveling worldwide, that connection remained strong. Afrikrea represented the perfect convergence of my technical skills and personal mission. We didn't build just another marketplace in 2016. We went all-in from day one: full e-commerce platform, integrated messaging, sophisticated wallet system, payout facilities. The infrastructure was robust enough to carry us through years of growth without constant rewrites or panic-inducing downtimes. To keep the lights on while gaining traction, we introduced a subscription box service. Shout-out to our subscribers who helped us grow, and to Kadry, who cut his fingers more than once boxing 100+ monthly packages! Nothing says startup commitment like literally bleeding for your vision. But almost immediately, we heard the real pain points: - "Shipping costs are killing my business" - "Payment fees eat my profit" - "I'm managing messages across Instagram, WhatsApp, and your platform" These weren't complaints. They were our roadmap to the future. Next: The technical decisions that carried us through explosive growth without breaking. #AfricanTech #Entrepreneurship #TechFounder

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spoke to a tech business owner in the energy sector last week. Five years in Trading 2 million Team of ten But when we talked about the tech he used inside the business not what he sold he said something that stopped me: “Honestly… I don’t know what tech we should be using. We just bolt things on when a problem appears.” And that’s when the real issues became obvious: • Three tools doing the same job
• Data scattered across apps no one checks
• Clients chasing updates because nothing talks to anything
• Manual work that should have been automated months ago
• Security gaps quietly sitting in the background
• Teams juggling tools instead of doing their best work 
Just constant friction. The root cause? No clear tech strategy 
No rhythm for reviewing their M365 systems. 
No process to decide what tech should stay and what should go. Everything reactive. 
Everything “we’ll fix it when it breaks.” Because here’s the truth: to activate growth, these things just aren’t enough to move the needle. Now imagine working with a team who * Help you reach your goals and provide freedom from noise * Partners with you to review how you work could be replicated using M365 apps Once we mapped what the used within m365 • He saw which tools actually drove value 
• Cut workload in half 
• closed silent risks no one knew existed 
• Simplified the tech stack so the team could breathe 
• Created a routine that keeps systems clean, secure, and scalable Suddenly, he wasn’t drowning in apps. 
He was in control and had immediately saved 30k. Others deal with day-to-day IT tasks. We deliver strategic technology insight that moves your business forward.

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Can we build a borderless economy for the 60% of Africa that's offline? To reach the next billion users, we have to build for the infrastructure people actually use, not just the ones we wish they had. I and my team have been refining OfflineBridge: a USSD-to-Blockchain infrastructure that brings blockchain liquidity to basic feature phones. No internet required. 💡 How it works: 1️⃣ Zero-Data Access: Using GSM protocols to trigger on-chain transactions. 2️⃣ User Experience: Non-custodial "Ghost Wallets" generated instantly via USSD. 3️⃣ The Handshake: A seamless bridge between telecom logic and smart contract execution. I’m looking to partner with teams focused on financial inclusion and stablecoin accessibility in emerging markets. If you're building in this space, let's connect! 🚀 #Web3 #FinancialInclusion #Base #Solidity #USSD #BuildInPublic

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Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear, And Why Should African Builders Care? OpenClaw, the open-source agent that exploded to 160,000 GitHub stars overnight, is proving that the most powerful AI isn't in the cloud it’s on your local machine. For the Kenyan tech ecosystem, this is a massive shift: • Local Control: It runs on your computer, not a corporate server, meaning you own your "memories" as simple markdown files. • The WhatsApp Bridge: It was perfected in low-bandwidth conditions using WhatsApp, making it accessible even on mobile data. • Creative Problem Solving: It doesn't just follow code; it "looks around" your system to find tools like a "Jua Kali" engineer would to get the job done. Watch this breakdown of how OpenClaw is "clawing" back data from big tech silos to give it back to the users. #OpenClaw #AI #TechKenya #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource

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Big news: Yamify a pan-African startup from Nigeria 🇳🇬, Congo 🇨🇩🇨🇬 to South Africa 🇿🇦, has been selected for Cohort 4 of the Innovest Afrika Ignite Accelerator! We’re joining 16 visionary startups reshaping Africa’s future across fintech, healthtech, logistics, AI, consumer goods, and renewable energy. This women-focused cohort is especially inspiring, with 75% led or co-led by women. Over the coming weeks, we’ll gain mentorship, investor readiness support, and hands-on training — all geared to scale Yamify and bring AI tools to small businesses across Africa. Excited for the journey ahead and can’t wait to share our progress leading up to Demo Day in Johannesburg, Nov 19, 2025. Africa deserves bold startups. Yamify is building one. #Yamify #InnovestAfrica #AIForAfrica #WomenInTech #Innovation

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Pitch decks are up. But exits? Still missing. In 2024, only 24 venture-backed startups exited across the entire African continent. That’s not just a funding problem—it’s a liquidity crisis. Founders raise. Investors bet. But nobody gets out. No secondaries. No acquisitions. No clean paths to cash. Umbrella wants to fix that. It’s building the AngelList for Africa—with receipts. A verified marketplace for African startup funding, advisory, and—soon—liquidity. • Founders upload data rooms. • Umbrella runs due diligence. • Investors invest by milestone. • And eventually? • Secondaries for early investors. • Small exits for founders. • Infrastructure for trust and cash flow—not just vibes. Because liquidity doesn’t just reward investors. It keeps founders in the game. It frees up capital. And it proves African tech can return more than headlines. So far: • 292 users • 181 founders • 47 advisors • 22 investors • 50+ startups (with many completing final verification) • $11/month founder subscriptions—and rising engagement It’s early, but Umbrella is doing the hard work to make liquidity a feature—not a fantasy. This week on Next Capital, I explored Umbrella’s plan to become the liquidity marketplace for African startups. You can check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dgYkb9Zv?

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How Crowdfrica Got Back to Their Mission 🚀 Crowdfrica wanted to help African communities through crowdfunding. But managing their growing platform was taking up all their time. The problem? Too much focus on fixing tech, not enough on growing impact. That’s where we came in. We handled all platform development- from making it stable to ready for future growth. Their team finally had time to focus on their mission. The outcome: ✔️ Stable platform ✔️ More time for outreach ✔️ Bigger impact across Africa Now, Crowdfrica is building communities, not just code. #CaseStudy #TechForGood #Crowdfunding #StartupGrowth #WebDevelopment #SocialImpact

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🌱 “Eyes in the Field, Northern Ghana 🌞 At GrowForMe, we believe trust is built on visibility.Live cameras & soon… AI + Drones — revolutionizing farm monitoring 🚁 That’s why we’re transforming how we manage large-scale farms — by bringing investors closer to their fields than ever before. 📡 In our Takpili farms, we’ve deployed live cameras that stream real-time footage, allowing us to monitor farm activities minute by minute. 🛡️ Alongside this tech, we have: On-site security safeguarding farms from rodents and intruders Dedicated agronomists protecting crops from insects and plant diseases This powerful blend of technology + human expertise ensures your investments stay safe, productive, and thriving. 🚁 And we’re just getting started. Next, we’re exploring drone-powered field scouting to capture real-time plant health data and elevate our farm monitoring to the skies. Because when we say we watch over your farms — we truly mean it. 🌾💚 #GrowForMe #InnovationInAgriculture #TechInFarming #AgriTechAfrica #SeedsofChange #Takpili #Dzata #SmartFarming #Crowdfunding

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It’s not a bootcamp. It’s a BuildCamp. Because we believe the real learning starts after the tutorial ends. This July, we’re launching something different — something built for African youth ready to stop watching and start building. Welcome to Summer BuildCamp 2025. An 8-week learning-by-building experience designed to take you from ideas to execution. Powered by DelTech Hub and a network of passionate mentors and partners. Here, you don’t just learn. You build — with structure, with mentorship, and with purpose. What makes Summer BuildCamp different?🎯 Tailored Learning Paths: Each track follows a roadmap created by mentors — not copied from courses. You get daily tasks, weekly goals, and clear milestones. Real Mentorship: Primary mentors guide you weekly, and are available to support you throughout. Secondary mentors (industry experts) step in to review, advise, and inspire. Live Weekly TrackMeetUps: Not just Q&As — real-time working sessions where tasks are broken down, explained, and implemented. Recognition Culture: Every week, top builders and impactful mentors are spotlighted. Excellence is seen and celebrated. The Final Challenge 🔥 After 8 weeks of building, it gets real. You’re grouped into a team of 7 across different tracks — Web Dev, App Dev, UI/UX, Cybersecurity, and Product. Together, you’ll build something that solves a real problem. You’ll pitch it live. And the most innovative team walks away with the prize. Top mentors are also awarded. The best projects are deployed online. This is more than just skills. It’s real collaboration. It’s real mentorship. It’s real confidence. This is where learners become builders. And builders become leaders. Are you a mentor who wants to give back? 💼 Do you have 2+ years of experience in: Web or App Development UI/UX Design Cybersecurity Product Strategy Do you want to guide and grow the next generation of tech talent in Africa? Or are you a learner ready to stop consuming and start creating? 📩 Reach out now: [email protected] Or send a message to DelTech Hub | Delbert Kimbi | Andigema Joyce Ani to get involved as a mentor or participant. Let’s build the future — one builder at a time. #SBC2025 #BuildToLearn #TechEcosystem #Mentorship #DelTechHub #Innovation #AfricaTech #BuildNotJustLearn #ProductChallenge #Techpreneurs

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