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Standard Chartered Backs Seven Kenyan Women-Led Startups With $70,000 in Grants

Sam Wakoba
Startups

Nigeria’s Coamana secures $500K from Village Capital to digitize trade across...

Sam Wakoba
Startups

Village Enterprise raises $1.3m to end poverty in Rwanda through entrepreneurship...

James Musoba
Startups

Kenya’s skincare firm, Uncover raises $1.4m funding round to expand to...

James Musoba
Women

TiE Women MENA Programme launches application for its 5th edition

Milcah Lukhanyu
Startups

Esther Kimani wins Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, takes home £50,000

James Musoba
Startups

iZola hires top medical exec to further simplify the healthcare journey...

Sam Wakoba
Startups

OpenseedVC Launches With $10M for Startups Across Africa & Europe

James Musoba
Startups

Mercy Corps AgriFin reaches over 21.5 million small scale farmers in...

Sam Wakoba
Startups

Investing in Women in the Blue Economy in Kenya Launched, 19...

Diana Mutheu
Business

Mastercard Foundation & Kifiya Partner to Launch Digital Credit & Device...

Sam Wakoba

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Tech-Savvy Teams Building Their Own Workarounds Isn’t Efficiency, It’s Shadow IT

Ronald Bwire
Tech

Safaricom Takes Hook Hip Hop Musical Auditions to Nakuru to Discover...

Ronald Bwire
Business

Nedbank Completes Acquisition of 66% of Kenya’s NCBA in $850 Million-Plus...

Sam Wakoba
Tech

Mastercard, Moovn Sign Five-Year East Africa Payments Deal

Ronald Bwire
Ronald Bwire

Tech-Savvy Teams Building Their Own Workarounds Isn’t Efficiency, It’s Shadow IT

Corporate productivity metrics often mask severe operational risks. When departmental managers face rigid central procurement, slow helpdesk response times, or clunky legacy software, they rarely wait for official approval to fix their immediate workflows. Instead, tech-savvy teams take matters into their own hands. They spin up unauthorized cloud storage...