The women leading Africa’s FinTech boom

We hear how a childhood in Guatemala, a fascination with computers and a belief that education should be accessible to everyone helped inspire the world's most popular learning apps. Luis von Ahn tells us how he went from creating CAPTCHA and selling reCAPTCHA to Google, to build ...  Show more

Headspace started life as a mindfulness app. Now it's partnering with the US Navy and investing in artificial intelligence for mental health support.The company's CEO Tom Pickett speaks to us about therapy, the increasing role of technology, and tackling burnout at scale.If you'd ...  Show more

In the past few years, the internet has been spreading rapidly across Africa. The continent has nearly half of the world’s mobile money accounts, and a thriving start-up ecosystem. But in sub-Saharan Africa, women make up a very small percentage of the tech workforce. Kim Chak ...

Dans un environnement à fort investissement comme l’est le secteur de la tech, quel poids les acteurs venus d’Afrique pèsent-ils ? Comment se faire une place ? Et pourquoi les femmes, souvent présentées par les institutions financières comme plus solvables que leurs homologues ma ...  Show more

Today’s episode is with Emilian Popa, who is an Africa focused investor and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of ILARA Health, a high tech point of care diagnostics venture which aims to democratize access to diagnostics across developing markets. He is passionate about pre ...  Show more

Viktoriya Tigipko is a hugely successful venture capitalist from the Ukraine. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of TA Ventures, an international early-stage VC fund primarily focusing on Transportation and Digital Health. A Tech Crunch report put TA Ventures in the top 4 of ...  Show more