African asset financing startup, M-Kopa has raised a combined equity and debt round of at least $250m, the company announced on Monday. This is one of the biggest single funding…
Ivan Karugaba will forever remember 12th April 2023. He was resting at his home in the evening and just like so many people that are into business, resting doesn’t mean…
Paul Graham, the founder of the highly influential Y Combinator accelerator program penned arguably his most famous essay in September 2012. In this essay, titled Startups = Growth, Paul Graham…
According to a report from the Uganda Counseling Association and the Ministry of Health, 14 million Ugandans are currently mentally sick. Essentially, this implies that in every 100 Ugandans, 35…
Safeboda co-founders Maxime Dieudonne, commonly referred to as Max and Alastair Sussock, have departed their joint role as Co-CEOs of Uganda’s biggest ride-hailing startup in a surprising move that was…
In 2018, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), conducted an operation in Kampala. It raided two prominent malls; Energy Centre and Light Centre Arcade. The majority of the shops…
ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI. GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer. OpenAI is a research organization and technology company based in San Francisco, founded in 2015. OpenAI began…
On February 2nd, Chat GPT surpassed 100m users just two months after launch. This is the fastest that any consumer app had taken to reach 100m users. For comparison, it…
Startups are companies that are built to grow fast. This was well articulated by Y Combinator’s Paul Graham in his 2004 article startups = growth. In this article, Paul Graham…
