Africa's Tech Future, Today.
Former banker Watson Matsa founded eSusFarm Africa to bridge the gap between traditional banking frameworks and smallholder agriculture. By leveraging soil, weather, and crop data, the platform creates dynamic risk management tools designed around seasonal earnings rather than rigid monthly schedules.
As generative artificial intelligence tools lower software development costs, African venture capitalists are shifting their evaluation criteria. Investors now prioritize proprietary datasets, local market defensibility, and clear execution capabilities over easily replicable code.
An analysis of venture capital performance across Africa over the past ten years evaluates overall cash returns, liquidity events, and distributed capital. The findings highlight structural challenges in exit mechanisms while demonstrating how successful exits have concentrated within key regional technology hubs.
Veteran tech leader Lungi Sangqu shares key takeaways from nearly forty years in digital transformation and enterprise leadership. He argues that true operational efficiency begins with people and clear workflows rather than software investments.
Logistics software, payroll, compliance tooling and B2B invoicing do not make good launch posts. They make good companies.
The comparison flatters nobody and misdescribes what is actually being built. It also imports a set of expectations that do not fit.
Donor-funded pilots are announced constantly and scaled rarely. The incentive structure explains why, and it is not about the technology.
Investors, founders and policymakers all make decisions on thin information. That is a market failure, and it is one a publication can address.
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