African Tech Tycoons you should be aware of

African Tech Tycoons you should be aware of

Africa is known as the land of unending opportunities…the aphrodite for the ailing global economy. The continent is taking baby strides in different aspects, and there are people who are moving forward to be the harbinger of change so far as the African economic resurgence is concerned. Let’s discuss a few African Tech Tycoons and get to know more about their story here.

So let’s have a look at the African tech Tycoons …the black pearls of business in this article. (In no particular order).

1. Tunde Kehinde, Co-Managing Director Of African Courier Express 

Tunde Kehinde is a London-based businessman who co-founded Jumia, Africa’s first unicorn, with a financial investment of around $1 million from a rocket internet German startup. Presently the company has set a strong foot in Nigeria, and it is now the country’s top eCommerce website. 

The path of success with Jumia is so pronounced that Tunde Kehinde set up another tech business in the year 2014, collaborating with Ercin Eksin, founder of Africa Courier Express (ACE). This company aims to streamline the logistics of delivery for various companies working in Nigeria and other African countries.

Tunde recently co-founded Lidya; a digital fintech lender which allows SMEs to unlock one-click, same-day credit and build a credit rating for the first time.

So he is someone who can be a role model for African Youth. Indeed a pathfinder!

2. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Founder And General Partner, Future Africa

At the early age of 29, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji co-founded some of the most innovative and disruptive tech companies in Africa. Talk of Andela and Flutterwave, companies working actively to transform the tech innovation infrastructure for Africa. His efforts turned Africa’s challenges into opportunities.

With Andela, Aboyeji was of the opinion that Nigerians would love to if they thought they could earn around $105000 or even half from remote work. He joined Flutterwave in the year 2016 and helped raise funding of $35milion in a Series B round. Presently the company has gone on to become the fastest growing payment technology business and Africa’s unicorn. 

Iyin is currently looking to help African startups reach the same scale as western companies with Future Africa. By removing the issue of funding, a primary barrier to a startup’s success.

3. Ken Njoroge, Co-Founder Of Cellulant

Ken Njoroge started with just $3000 on his credit card and co-founded Cellulant, a mobile payment system that connects consumers to merchants.

Presently Cellulent has fitted its flag successfully in 10 countries in Africa. The company now connects to 200 merchants and 44 mobile network operators. 

Impressed by reputation and integrity, the government in Nigeria turned to the company and offered it a four-year-$8.9 m contract to run a registration and validation system for fertilizers at friendly prices. 

4. Obi Ozor, Co-Founder, Kobo360

Ozor Obi began with a small logistic company using the savings that he made by working part-time at a supermarket whilst in school. His small side business began to bring about $7000 every month.

Then he began his business, Kobo 360, a logistic business that uses technology. At that time, the infrastructure of this very business in Africa was not that good enough. But with a never say die attitude, the company has gone on to become one of the largest supply chain providers in Africa, reaching people with resources. It raised $37 million in its series A round.

Conclusion 

Other than these, there are other prominent names like Bright Simons, president of mPedigree Network, Jason Njoku, Founder iRokoTv, and Michael Macharia, the group chief executive SevenSeas Technologies. 

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Indeed the names discussed above are like stars that the African youth like to chase. They are working extremely hard to bring in fortunes for themselves, the company, and the continent in general.

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Microsoft brings official store to Jumia Nigeria online mall

Microsoft brings official store to Jumia Nigeria online mall

Microsoft Nigeria is hosting an official store on the Jumia Nigeria online mall.

Microsoft Store Jumia Nigeria

Microsoft now has an official store page on the Jumia Nigeria online mall. A move to help consumers and businesses buy and use genuine Microsoft products and solutions. This solves an earlier challenge as payments are in the local currency, Naira.

The Microsoft store page currently features only Microsoft Office 365 product suites. Offering Office 365 business, Office 365 Business Essentials and Office 365 Business Premium. The store page mentions buying Windows 10 software, that is not presently available.

Get the best tools you need on Microsoft official store page on Jumia mall. Find the best deals on this page. Do more with Office 365 for less. Are you are interested in Windows 10 software? Everything you are looking for is available online at the lowest prices.

Microsoft Nigeria earlier this year also partnered with FirstBank Nigeria. To provide SME’s with an education platform and access to its productivity suite tools at discounted rates payable in Naira.

Microsoft discourages piracy as it has so many negative effects it brings to a software user. Malware ransomware being a major one that opens a software user to cyber attacks. But buying genuine software was a challenge in the African region. This narrative is however changing.

We are unable to confirm to you at this moment if there will be products targeted at individuals. As well as if other Microsoft products like the Surface and Xbox devices will be available in the near future. Or if the Microsoft store will become available in Jumia’s other ten online malls across Africa.

We will bring you updates on this. Click to check out the official Microsoft store on Jumia.

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Win a Dell Laptop in the Jumia Back to School Contest

Win a Dell Laptop in the Jumia Back to School Contest

Win a Laptop in the Jumia Back to School Contest 

 

Jumia is running a Back to School competition for students returning for the start of a new academic year. The contest promises to award the winner with a new Dell Inspiron 3552. 

To participate in the contest all you have to do is to send an email to christina.ayisi@jumia.com with the subject Back To School Contest. Attach a copy of your student ID card and a “detailed explanation” in the body of the email, of why you deserve to be the winner of the laptop. 

Jumia Back to School Contest

Jumia says only one winner will be randomly selected at the end of the back to school contest.

We estimate the laptop to be about 250 USD running windows 10. It might be an Intel Celeron N3050, 4GB SDRAM, 1.6 GHz processor, 500 GB HDD Storage and 15.6″ display.  

The contest forms a part of their Back to School promotion which gets under way from the 20th to the 31st of August 2018. Jumia says it has the best deals for over 10,000 school essentials which will be delivered to your doorstep. 

Looking forwarding to participating? All the best! Don’t forget to share as someone might need this breakthrough. ?