Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, is home to 23 of the country’s 28 companies in this year’s Financial Times ranking of the fastest-growing African companies. Odunayo Eweniyi, co-founder of fintech start-up PiggyVest, says companies flock to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a crowded field for the many Nigerian fintech start-ups competing for a slice of the market in Africa’s most populous nation, making it difficult to stand out. But that is not the case … Read more
Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed tech unicorn Builder.ai
When Covid-19 hit, Abdelilah Hlallouch, a tech entrepreneur of Moroccan heritage who was born and raised in the Netherlands, seized the opportunity to fulfil a long-held ambition of launching a business in the country of his forebears. Like most other countries, Morocco closed its borders and suspended flights in response to the pandemic, implementing one … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn, as the world’s richest man returns to his business empire and the race to develop artificial intelligence. The deal will … Read more
