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

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Female CEOs in Africa Receive Lowest Proportion of Funding Since 2019,...

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Safaricom Appoints Sylvia Anampiu as it Prepares Pay-as-you-go Fibre Broadband Rollout

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Outliers Venture Capital Launches Fellowship Program to Develop MENA Tech Talent

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Business Partners Launches $4.8 Million Fund to Boost Women-owned SMEs in...

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Five35 Ventures Secures Anchor Investment from Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund

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Kenya’s Farm to Feed Raises $1.5M to Build a Climate-Resilient and...

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Solar Sister & Koolboks to Empower 1,000 Women Entrepreneurs

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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...

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

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Mastercard, Moovn Sign Five-Year East Africa Payments Deal

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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...