📸Mirabelle Mayack Kenya🔥 EUs playground with a Posterboy✅ By Mirabelle Mayack (Head of Governmental Affairs & Strategic Sales, African Investment Intelligence) 🎯Kenya is NOT my area of expertise and apart from a few visits, I don’t have much of a clue. However it’s the same system established as anywhere else in Africa.🛑Kenya’s exports are mainly foucussed on Europe’s taste. Agricultural products such as tea, fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables, coffee and constitute the greatest proportion.💢Kenya’s cuisine is a flavour of indian, British and local produces.🚱Kenya’s economy is Indian.🚭Kenya’s political oxygen is the IMF, Worlbank and the usual suspects enjoying a…
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By Catrijn Schipper (Investment Manager at Invest International) 🇳🇱 > 🇳🇬 Last week, my colleagues Ivo van der Horst, David Moonen and myself had the opportunity to visit Nigeria. The goal was to visit several start-up clients that we are financing as Invest International 🚀 We got our boots on the ground in Lagos, to see the opportunities but also the challenges that these start-ups are facing in Nigeria.🏥 First up was Platos, founded by Oladimeji Joseph Fakayode. Platos built an e-health monitoring platform and app for chronic disease care. The company focuses on treating diabetes and hypertension in Nigeria.…
🎥Alfred Ukane The Price War [ Part 1] by Alfred Ukane (Agricultural Service Provider, Consultant and Technical Advisor) The desperation to sell and control a larger market share has led so many brands into an unhealthy price competition that has impacted their business negatively.This is common among products and commodities. As agribusiness owners, we experience this a lot. The desperation of some:📍Poultry farmers to sell will make them reduce the price of their eggs or broilers so they can sell off their produce on time;📍Fish farmers also crash their prices in other for them to quickly sell their fish;📍Other agro…
Millionaires on the Move: Where are the World’s Wealthy Migrating to and from in 2024? By Henley & Partners The Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2024 LONDON, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The UK is expected to see an unprecedented net loss of 9,500 millionaires in 2024 — second only to China worldwide, and more than double the 4,200 who left the country last year, which was itself record-breaking following the exodus of 1,600 HNWIs in 2022. For the third year running, the UAE looks set to take first place as the world’s leading wealth magnet, with a record-breaking 6,700…
Alex Chriss (President & CEO, PayPal) PayPal Lost Six Million Active Users in a Year By Jastra Kranjec Despite reporting better-than-expected first-quarter profit and sales, the fintech giant PayPal still counts much less users than it did a year ago. According to data presented by Stocklytics.com, PayPal had 427 million active users in Q1 2024, or six million less than in the same period last year. Four Straight Quarters of a User Drop Followed by a Slight Rebound in Q1 For years, PayPal has seen its user base grow, fuelled by the surging number of companies and consumers searching for an…
LONDON, June 4, 2024 /PRN/ — QS Quacquarelli Symonds released the 21st edition of the QS World University Rankings – the only ranking system to measure both employability and sustainability performance. For the 13th consecutive year, MIT leads the table, though two-thirds of the United States’ ranked universities have dropped in the last year. Imperial College London jumps four places to rank 2nd; the University of Oxford and Harvard University remain 3rd and 4th respectively; the University of Cambridge rounds out the top five. Caltech is the only institution to break into the top 10. 20242023QS World University Rankings 2025:…
Frank Breuss (Co-Founder & CEO, Nikulipe) 📸 Particle Agency A recent report finds that Africa’s booming market for online goods and services is on track to surpass half a billion consumers by 2025, highlighting untapped potentials for global merchants and payment service providers. Emphasizing Africa’s mobile-centric consumer base, the report details how access to Local Payment Methods can boost business success in Africa’s diverse markets. June 4th, 2024. By the end of 2025, nearly half the population of Africa will have engaged in buying goods and services online, compared to just 13% in 2017. This increase will be fueled by…
🎥 GITEX Africa 2024 ends on a high note It’s a wrap. GITEXAfrica 2024 has come to a superb close…Visitors, exhibitors, and partners have a message that requires no translation. From every corner of the world, it’s “Adieu, see you next year” 😃.. One of the highlights of the day (and a win for all the incredible entrepreneurs showcasing groundbreaking innovations at GITEX AFRICA 2024! ) – Lupiya emerged champions of the Supernova Challenge, one of the biggest pitch competitions in Africa. Lupiya company was developed to foster financial inclusion in Africa by simplifying borrowing processes and requirements, believing that every…
Day 02 at GITEX Africa 2024 shattered records, delivering a global tech summit unlike any Africa has ever seen! Leading visionaries from across the continent and beyond (130+ countries across Africa and the World) converged to showcase the cutting edge in AI, IoT, cybersecurity, and more. From healthcare breakthroughs to the future of finance and smart cities, the expo buzzed with groundbreaking innovations. GITEX AFRICA stands as a testament to the continent’s meteoric rise in the tech world, showcasing Africa’s growing prowess and insatiable hunger for innovation. Lillian Barnard (President of Microsoft Africa) delivered the keynote address on “Inclusivity and…
The continent’s biggest tech and startup event, GITEX AFRICA, returned for its second edition (May 29-31, 2024), with the three-day gathering bringing together global and African tech ecosystems, and fostering collaboration to propel Africa’s AI economy onto the world stage. From regional innovators to international investors, participants will forge powerful connections that will shape the future of African technology for generations to come. The Prime Minister of Morocco, H.E. Aziz Akkanouch, led the official inauguration and VIP tour of GITEX AFRICA. Running until May 31, the event welcomes over 1,400 exhibiting tech enterprises and startups, more than 350 leading investors…