Moonshot by TechCabal is back! 🚀
This year, we’re moving to the iconic National Theatre, Lagos, to make room for our biggest chapter yet. We’re bringing together the discipline and ambition African tech needs, backed by serious numbers:
💰 $15B+ startup valuation on our exhibition floor.
📈 $5B+ capital represented by our investor pool.
🏆 $105K+ in TC Battlefield prizes awarded to date.
Come connect with the leaders, innovators, builders, creatives, and investors building the future of African tech.
Early bird tickets are now available at moonshot.techcabal.com
#Moonshot2026 #MoonshotbyTechCabal
We’ve been writing about Africa’s tech story for 13 years.
Today, we’re launching TC 4.0 — your insider pass to the African tech ecosystem. Gated exclusives, deeper analysis, and the context to actually act on what you read.
Free. No card. No subscription. Thursday, April 23.
#TechCabal #TCInsiders #AfricanTech
After six years in small, underserved Nigerian cities, food delivery startup @usetrazo is now targeting Lagos and Abuja's competitive market.
Ikechukwu Nweze, Trazo’s co-founder and CEO, argues that building first in smaller cities forced the company to solve operational problems that bigger-city startups rarely encounter early on: inconsistent mapping systems, thin rider supply, low order density, and weaker consumer demand for delivery services.
Those lessons, he believes, now give Trazo a fighting chance in harder markets.
🔗 Get details of the food delivery startup’s expansion plans at the link in bio.
#techcabal #fooddelivery
PARTNER: Powering commerce in Africa goes beyond products. It requires the systems, infrastructure, and operational layers that keep businesses moving.
At the @glovoapp_ng Future of Commerce Summit 2.0 panel: Powering Commerce: the systems, the infrastructures, and the in-between, leaders across logistics, clean energy, fintech, and operations explored how infrastructure reliability, technology, and scalable systems will shape the next phase of business growth in Nigeria and across the continent.
Featuring Osarumen Osamuyi, Rotimi Thomas (Sunfi), Sebastine Osika (GIG Logistics), Opeyemi Oyinloye (Paga Group), and Olakunle Ogungbamila (ORDA Africa).
PARTNER: Winning the Nigerian consumer today goes beyond visibility. Brands now have to earn relevance, trust, and community.
At the @glovoapp_ng Future of Commerce Summit 2.0 Fireside Chat: Winning the Nigerian Consumer in the New Digital Era, leaders across food, fintech, and digital commerce unpacked why cultural fluency, community-building, and human-first storytelling are becoming critical to brand survival in Nigeria’s evolving digital economy.
Featuring: Joshua Chibueze- Co-Founder and CMO (Piggyvest), Oyindamola de-Medeiros, General Manager E-Commerce, Food Concepts(Chicken Republic) & Anjeola Salami- Brands Ads Lead, Glovo Nigeria.
PARTNER: For millions of Nigerian entrepreneurs, the daily grind of running a business on Instagram or WhatsApp is a familiar rhythm: post a product, field a dozen DMs, manually confirm payments, argue with logistics providers, and repeat. It works, until it doesn’t.
At some point, the growth that informal selling enables becomes the very thing that strangles it. Orders pile up in inboxes. Bank transfer confirmations slip through threads. Customers stop getting responses at 11 p.m. The business is scaling, but the infrastructure isn’t keeping up.
Ojamaker, an AI-powered storefront builder, was built to close that gap.
Head to the link in bio to learn more.
65 startups. 9 subsectors. A decade-plus of building.
Nigeria’s healthtech sector is not short of founders or ideas. And the evidence shows it is gradually moving from experimentation to structural relevance.
But 9 in 10 Nigerians still have no active health insurance. So how far have we really come?
TechCabal Insights, in collaboration with @chai_globalhealth and Digital Health Nigeria, goes deep on the funding, infrastructure, subsectors, regulations, and more.
🔗Tap the link in bio to Join the waitlist.
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#StateofHealthTechinNigeria #TechCabalInsights #tcinsights
You might have heard about Canal+’s takeover of MultiChoice, but what does it mean for you? We caught up with Canal+ Africa and MultiChoice executives at the AMVCA, where they shared how the partnership will shape African content. They also had really great advice for African storytellers.
#techcabal #amvca
In 2021, @jijinigeria 's co-founder said Africa was already largely consolidated, "very limited space for whom to acquire."
Five years later, Jiji has its answer: go somewhere else and do the same thing.
This week, the Lagos-headquartered classifieds marketplace announced it had acquired Bikroy, Bangladesh's largest online classifieds platform, thirteen months after entering Bangladesh as Bikroy's direct competitor.
What makes this deal worth watching beyond the acquisition itself is what it says about the ceiling of African tech markets. Jiji is one of the continent's clearest success stories — dominant across eight African countries, $70 billion in annual GMV, 90 million annual users.
But the next phase of growth required leaving the continent entirely, because the consolidation opportunity at home had already run its course.
The full exclusive — including what changes for Bikroy, who Jiji competes with next, and why Bangladesh — is at the link in bio.
#techcabal #exclusive #tcexclusive #jiji
On Nairobi’s roads, traffic police officers have long acted like human operating systems—stepping into chaotic intersections, overriding traffic lights, waving matatus forward, stopping impatient motorists, and manually holding a city perpetually on the brink of gridlock together.
The government now wants machines to take over. Treasury documents tabled in parliament show Kenya has allocated KES 1.18 billion ($9.1 million) next financial year to expand Nairobi’s Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Phase III, an AI-powered network of smart traffic lights, surveillance cameras, and road sensors that could gradually reduce the need for traffic police officers at major junctions across the capital.
We got into the details of the Kenyan government’s plan in this week’s edition of Delve Into AI.
🔗 Swipe and head to the link in bio to read.
#techcabal #delveintoai
PARTNER: The South East Pitch Competition @SEVCP_SEDC is heading into its final stage, with some of the most promising startups from the region set to pitch for funding, visibility, and scale.
📍: Enugu
📅: May 25 — Grand Finale
📅: May 26 — Investment Ceremony
If you care about where the next wave of startups is coming from, this is a room you want to be in.
Register at the link in bio.
@SEDCgov
#Startups #VentureCapital #Innovation #NigeriaStartups #TechInAfrica #SEVCP #SouthEastNigeria
PARTNER: Clarus @reclarus and Norrsken East Africa have launched Scale Velocity Lab, a four-week go-to-market execution sprint selecting 12 traction-stage startups across East Africa to refine their positioning, build faster operating systems, and launch measurable distribution experiments.
Backed by partners including Visolab, Dochase, and TechCabal Insights, the program combines practical workshops, expert mentoring, and an Activation Showcase in front of investors and ecosystem leaders. Applications for Cohort 01 are open now and close on May 14.
Head to our link in bio to learn more and register.
