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Nomba Expands Cross-Border Payments to Zambia From DRC

Ronald Bwire
Startups

UNCDF, Bayer Foundation Fund Omia, SokoFresh in $1m Food Systems Push

Ronald Bwire
Startups

iSchool Acquires Rubikal to Build In-house AI Education Stack

Ronald Bwire
MENA Edition

Edafa Venture Acquires Egypt’s Cyclex in Six-figure Sustainability Play

James Musoba
AI

Egypt’s INVIA Raises $1.2M to Scale AI Financial Operating System for...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Egypt-based Startup Sinai.ai Raises $1.45 Million to Build an AI-native Book...

James Musoba
Startups

Aya Raises $7 Million Series A to Scale On-Demand Fashion Model

James Musoba
Startups

4 Kenyan Startups Selected for Google’s 10th Africa Accelerator Cohort

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Speedinvest Launches Flagship MEA Fund Backed by Mubadala, QIA & EIB...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

MECS Invests $750,000 in Kenyan Clean Cooking Innovators to Accelerate Energy...

James Musoba
Startups

Terra Industries Launches Africa’s Largest Drone Factory in Ghana

Ronald Bwire

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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...