Terra Industries Secures $18M for Drone Facility
Defense and autonomous tech startup Terra Industries has secured an additional $18 million in seed funding, accelerating the construction of its 34,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Ghana.
Infrastructure
Internet access, power, data centres, and mobile networks — the physical foundation everything else runs on. The stories that do not get written often enough.
How Agritech Innovations Are Securing Food Systems in Africa
Agriculture employs over half of Africa’s workforce, yet post-harvest losses and climate unpredictability cost billions annually. A new generation of agritech innovators is deploying satellite data, smart hardware, and digital commodity trading to fix the chain.
Africa's Push for Sovereign AI and Local Compute Power
Relying on foreign data hubs for artificial intelligence introduces unacceptable latency, foreign currency risk, and cultural bias. African tech ecosystems are responding by building indigenous cloud infrastructure and sovereign AI models.
The B2B Infrastructure Shift – How Embedded Software Is Digitizing Africa’s $100B Informal Economy
Consumer-facing super-apps once dominated headlines, but the most durable businesses in African tech are quietly being built in the unglamorous background—embedding logistics, inventory management, and digital payments directly into informal supply chains.
Africa Tech Festival 2026 Focuses on Sovereign AI and Regional Compute Infrastructure
As cloud dependency exposes regional tech to foreign currency risks, Africa Tech Festival 2026 convenes policy and enterprise leaders to build localized data centers, subsea cables, and sovereign AI frameworks.
Spiro Secures $215M Equity Round to Electrify African Urban Transport
As fuel volatility threatens gig-worker margins, electric mobility pioneer Spiro secures $215 million to build regional battery-swapping networks and local manufacturing hubs across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Infrastructure Gap That Explains Half of Africa's Startup Failure Rate
Post-mortems blame the market, the team, or the funding environment. Often the real cause is more boring: the electricity, the bandwidth, and what both cost.
The Cables Have Landed. Why Is Bandwidth Still Expensive?
International capacity into Africa has multiplied. Retail prices have not fallen nearly as far, and the reason sits between the landing station and the customer.
Power Is a Software Problem Too
Unreliable electricity does not only raise costs. It shapes what applications can be built, and most engineering advice written elsewhere quietly assumes it away.
Data Centres and the Question of Where Your Data Actually Sits
Local cloud capacity is growing. Whether to use it is a legal question as often as a technical one.