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Africa continues to emerge as one of the world’s fastest-growing startup ecosystems. Over the past decade, the continent has produced a growing number of unicorn companies—privately held startups valued at over $1 billion. These companies are transforming key sectors such as fintech, mobile payments, logistics, and digital infrastructure, while attracting significant attention from global investors and venture capital firms. In 2026, African unicorns remain at the center of discussions around Africa startup funding, venture capital Africa, and the digital economy Africa, shaping the future of innovation across emerging markets. Copyright © 2026 AfricaBusiness.com – All materials can be used…
For decades, Africa’s place in the global economy was framed through the lens of aid,how much was given, where it went, and whether it made a difference. That narrative is steadily shifting. Across the continent, a more self-directed model is emerging, driven by trade, domestic resource mobilization, and investment. While the transition is uneven, the direction is clear: Africa is reducing its reliance on aid and redefining its development path. This shift has been accelerated by changing global realities. Traditional donors, including the United States Agency for International Development, have scaled back or restructured assistance. Faced with tighter and less…
Make CryptoSlate preferred on In July 2025, Genius Group announced it was targeting a Bitcoin treasury of 10,000 BTC, framing it as a statement of deep strategic conviction.This week, however, the company sold its last 84 BTC to pay off $8.5 million in debt and declared its treasury empty. The 18-month gap between those two moments is a perfect example of what’s happening to the Bitcoin treasury trade right now.Why this matters: The Bitcoin treasury narrative has been one of the market’s strongest structural bullish arguments. If corporate and sovereign holders behave like cyclical sellers rather than long-term accumulators, institutional…
Damilola Jerugba describes his interest in building things as a fascination with how things work and come together. He said he taught himself how to code through Udemy courses and YouTube tutorials, and then went on to work as a software engineer at companies like Reddit, Moniepoint, and Busha. At Reddit, he worked on the advertising team, helping build the infrastructure companies use to run campaigns. At Moniepoint, he worked on customer support tools as a senior frontend engineer, and at Busha, he worked as a backend engineer. These experiences, he said, shaped how he thought about performance, reliability, and…
Netflix has released a video object removal model called VOID, developed by researchers at Netflix and Sofia University. The model is available on Hugging Face for public use and is not limited to Netflix productions.VOID stands for Video Object and Interaction Deletion. Unlike typical video inpainting tools that remove objects and fill the gap with static background content, VOID also predicts how remaining objects in a scene would physically behave after the removed element is gone.What the VOID Video Object Removal Model DoesGiven a video of two vehicles colliding, VOID can remove one vehicle and generate footage showing the remaining…
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Corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holders are diverging into two distinct paths amid continued market pressure. While Strategy held steady on its massive BTC reserves, Nakamoto Holdings moved in the opposite direction, selling at a loss and trimming exposure as it reworks its balance sheet.The contrast highlights a growing divide in the corporate Bitcoin treasury model. Some holders have refused to sell, treating BTC as a long-term reserve asset and doubling down through volatility, while others are being forced to unlock liquidity, book losses or rethink capital allocation. With Bitcoin down 46% from its peak, the risks behind debt-fueled or aggressive buying strategies…
Ten years is a long time in Nigerian fintech. Long enough to go from a pitch deck to a billion-dollar valuation. Long enough to watch a rebrand become a company-wide identity shift. Long enough to see a simple savings app accumulate more than ₦3 trillion in lifetime payouts. In 2025 and 2026, five companies that launched between 2015 and 2016 are marking a decade in operation: Paystack, Moniepoint, Flutterwave, Carbon, and PiggyVest. Their anniversaries land at different points, and their trajectories diverged sharply, but their survival alone is worth examining in a market where most startups do not make it…
Like many, I’ve been using ChatGPT as my AI of choice for quite a while (even though some are turning away recently. But the truth is that for most things, Claude is better (like for doing real work) and in some cases save you a ton of time by helping you with work. It’s more perceptive (and can brilliantly ask you clarifying questions in order to form a deep understanding), it has vastly better coding skills than ChatGPT, and it has more capability to do work on your behalf through agentic tools like Cowork which can literally use your computer…
At first AI was a tool, now it has become a more grounded and capable technology that has the potential to change the business at the infrastructure level By Doug Morrison, VP of Modern Workplace at Braintree and Raymond Collins, AI Sales Executive at Braintree. Over the past year, AI has moved away from experiments with generative AI models towards governed, scaled, agentic systems embedded in products, workflows and devices. Its usage has gone from pockets of enthusiasm to widespread adoption as companies dig into the value it offers and find better ways of extracting this value. Its narrative has…