Koromone Koroye

Jan 26, 2024 | techcabal.com | Ephraim Modise |Koromone Koroye |Faith Omoniyi |Frank Eleanya

Livestock Wealth’s lead investor has stated that it did the requisite due diligence before investing R10 million (~$530,000) into the company. The agritech startup, which allows investors to make investments in livestock and farmland, is accused of operating without licensing by South Africa’s financial services regulator.

Jan 22, 2024 | techcabal.com | Hannatu Asheolge |Koromone Koroye

Yemisi Isidi moved back to Nigeria from the UK in 2017, and after seeing how difficult it was for businesses, especially women-owned ones, to scale, she decided to do something about it. At first, she started helping small business owners utilise social media to grow their businesses until that seemed inadequate, and then she moved into providing micro-loans through a company she started, Triift Africa.

Jan 17, 2024 | techcabal.com | Ephraim Modise |Joseph Olaoluwa |Koromone Koroye |Abubakar Idris

This week, Showmax shared the content slate for Showmax, its soon-to-be relaunched streaming service. TechCabal got early access to the streaming platform, which will officially launch on February 12. After a couple of days of looking under the hood and tinkering with the new Showmax, here’s what we like and think could be better. SPOILER ALERT: It’s impressive!What we likeThe user interface of the new Showmax is sleek, unlike the original Showmax, which was somewhat clunky.

Nov 16, 2023 | techcabal.com | Ngozi E. Chukwu |Mariam Muhammad |Hannatu Asheolge |Koromone Koroye

At the AWS Startups Women’s Demo Day Lagos organized by the cloud provider and VC firm Ajim Capital, female founders and investors talked about the less generous VC landscape. “It used to be all success stories last year,” Chioma Okotcha, chief operations officer at fintech startup PayHippo, said, comparing her fintech’s fundraising journey in the past to what’s happening this year as investor appetite has shrunk.

Nov 8, 2023 | techcabal.com | Hannatu Asheolge |Ngozi E. Chukwu |Koromone Koroye

While in university, Chichi Arinze decided to find a side hustle to support herself and pay her tuition at Babcock University, which her parents could not afford. After trying real estate and failing, she turned to something she had always loved: cars. Arinze noticed that students at her private university often travelled out of state during the weekends, so she decided to build a business around that.