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The Flip
The Flip is an editorial-style podcast exploring contextually relevant insights from entrepreneurs and investors changing the status quo in Africa. The name The Flip comes from the opportunity to flip the script – question some of the pervasive narratives on entrepreneurship, challenge the ubiquity...
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Inside Argentina's $300 Billion Parallel Economy
Argentina's decades-long economic crises and hyperinflation has a major impact on how Argentine's participate in the economy.
The recent story t...
What If You Could Send Money Across Borders as Fast as a Text?
This year, $160 billion in remittance payments will be sent from the US to Latin America. $65 billion will be sent from the US to Mexico, the world's...
NBA Africa's Biggest Success | The Khaman Maluach Story
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qoA105xnIpU
Khaman Maluach was just drafted 10th overall in the NBA Draft. He’s a South Sudanese...
The Real Reason People Are Using Stablecoins
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2025 is the year of stablecoins.
Transaction volumes have grown to over $33 trillion in the...
Why the NFL is Bringing American Football to Africa
There are 1,696 active players in the NFL. Just 138 are African.
But if it were up to Osi Umenyiora, 11-year veteran and 2-time S...
How We're Helping African Farmers Grow
Farming is the number one source of employment in Africa, yet its agricultural productivity is the lowest of any region in the world.
What We Get Wrong About Climate Financing
Reports suggest that climate change is set to cost the global economy $38 billion per year by 2049. Emerging markets need close to $2.4 trillion per y...
Can Solar Power Solve Nigeria's Energy Crisis?
Nigeria’s energy crisis has persisted for decades. Africa's largest country is largely powered by fuel generators. They're noisy, dirty, and bad for t...
How Africa’s Green Industries Could Save the Planet
Can Africa be a leader in the global fight against climate change?
While the continent has contributed just 3 percent to global c...
This Funding Model is Helping Fight Climate Change
These climate investors are funding climate startups using a hands-on venture-building model to support founders across Africa.
In this episode...
How Moniepoint Powers Millions of Businesses Across Nigeria
There are millions of Moniepoint point-of-sale terminals in use across Nigeria. These point-of-sale devices power Nigeria’s offline economy, and while...
How Africa's Fastest Growing Company is Helping Retailers Grow
Small retailers in Nigeria power the economy. But they’re going through some tough times. Devaluation, food inflation, and overall poor economic condi...
An African Tech Exit - Selling Sendwave for $500 Million
One of the African tech ecosystem's largest exits was the 2020 sale of Sendwave to WorldRemit for $500 million.
Sid Sridhar was S...
Tackling Africa’s $330 Billion Credit Gap
There is a $330 billion credit gap, according to the IFC. But why is it so hard to lend in African markets?
We explore that quest...
African Small Businesses Have Many Challenges. Can These Platforms Help?
In this episode, the third in our docuseries on jobtech platforms and the future of work, we dive deeper into the value chain, because the problems th...
Why Are Cross-Border Payments So Hard?
Benjamin Fernandes, the Founder and CEO of the remittance platform NALA, likes to say that payments are just 1% built in Africa.
...
Nigerian Neobank Roundtable: Moniepoint, Kuda, FairMoney
In this episode, we're joined in a panel conversation with the CEOs of three of Nigeria's biggest digital banks: Moniepoint's Tosin Eniolorunda, Kuda'...
The Future of Work Will Be Bootstrapped
In our first episode of this series on jobtech platforms and the future of work, we argued that the future of work is a tech-enabled portfolio of work...
Much Ado About the Media, Live from Lagos
In January 2024, we hosted a live show in Lagos with The Subtext's Osarumen Osamuyi on the relationship between the tech ecosystem and the media.
Afrobeats, Basketball & Commerce
Live from the BIG Summit, a platform hosted by investor and 2x NBA All-Star Baron Davis, at the 2024 NBA All-Star Game, a conversation with three oper...
What We Get Wrong About Jobs in Africa
The African continent has the highest levels of poverty, the lowest levels of formal employment, and its population is going to double in the next 30...
Unlocking Gender-Smart Capital At Scale (2X Global's Jessica Espinoza)
Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a...
The Mastercard Foundation is Investing $150 Million into 20 Gender Lens Funds
Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a...
Investing in Women is an Economic Imperative (Tokunboh Ishmael, Andreata Muforo)
Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a...
This Angel Investor is Closing the Gender Funding Gap (Rising Tide Africa's Yemi Keri)
Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a...
Why is only 2% of funding going to female founders?
Despite research showing that female founders outperform their male peers, startups with a solo female founder or an all-female founding team raised a...
In Conversation with Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (Coronation Capital, Access Bank)
Today's guest is Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Chairman of Coronation Capital and former Group MD and CEO of Access Bank.
Aigboje is on...
Norrsken22: Investing $205 Million into African Startups
Today's guests are Natalie Kolbe, Ngetha Waithaka and Lexi Novitske - Partners of the $205 million growth fund Norrsken22.
In thi...
How to Pivot with Union54's Perseus Mlambo
Today's guest is Perseus Mlambo, Co-founder and CEO of Union54, the developers of the social commerce app ChitChat.
The company s...
MTN Nigeria's Adia Sowho: Sharing Is A Must
Today's guest is Adia Sowho, one of the most experienced and thoughtful operators in the African tech ecosystem. After starting her career in consulti...
Ham Serunjogi: How Chipper Cash is Surviving the Slowdown
Today's guest is Ham Serunjogi, the Co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash.
In 2021, Chipper raised $150 million Series C extension, valuing the sta...
Making Borders Matter Less with Onafriq's Dare Okoudjou
Today's guest is Dare Okoudjou, the Founder and CEO of MFS Africa, which this week has rebranded to Onafriq.
The new name represe...
Investing in African Talent with YC's Michael Seibel & Microtraction's Kwamena Afful
Today's guests are Michael Seibel, the Managing Director of Y Combinator, and Kwamena Afful, a Founding Partner of Microtraction.
...
Building a $1B Fintech in South Africa with Stitch CEO Kiaan Pillay
Today's guest is Kiaan Pillay, the Co-founder and CEO of Stitch. My conversation with Kiaan comes on the heels of their recent fundraising announcemen...
Olugbenga 'GB' Agboola: Hard-Earned Lessons Building Flutterwave
Today's guest is Olugbenga Agboola, better known as the one and only GB - the Co-founder and CEO of Flutterwave.
It's been a tryi...
The Future of Work Won't Look Like a Job
The future of work in the African context is going to be a lot of different things. It mimics the nature of work itself for many individuals on the co...
The Role of Big Tech in the Future of Work
There is a perception that there's a tech talent shortage in the African tech ecosystem, and that it's hard to find high-quality local talent.
...
Stablecoins: Africa's Killer Crypto App
We're dropping one more episode of our new show, crypto@scale, on The Flip's feed today. In this episode, we interview our first guests on what might...
Introducing crypto@scale
We interrupt this season on the future of work to drop a special episode today in The Flip’s feed. Introducing crypto@scale, a new show from The Flip,...
The Future of Work is Standardization
Where there is fragmentation, informality, and a dearth of infrastructure, there are questions about what the path to formality and standardization wi...