In 1968, at the moment of Eswatini’s independence, King Sobhuza II created a trust by royal charter and called it…

Ask what happens to a promising early-stage business in Eswatini once founder savings run out, and the honest answer is…

Africa’s entire venture capital industry — every fund manager who managed to drag a final close over the line in…

That’s the fun question. It’s the wrong one for this desk, though. In April, Aubrey Niederhoffer closed a $7.3 million…

In a country of 1.2 million people, two funds hold assets equal to more than half of GDP. The Public…

Until recently, it wasn’t a name that showed up much anywhere — a rural outpost in Eswatini’s Lowveld, in a…

Six pieces ran on Egypt between 25 and 27 August. Read individually, they cover very different corners of the market:…

Ayo Sopitan tells a version of his origin story that most founders would edit out. He didn’t set out to…

I was in Aba recently to speak about startup investing when the conversation moved somewhere more consequential. An experienced eye-care…

The instinct with a ranking like this is to lead with the order — MNT-Halan first, Swvl second, MaxAB third…