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Goodbye for now, Trajectory Africa
The Trajectory Africa, is a "pop-up" podcast designed to explore the first principles of VC and tech entrepreneurship in Africa, as they emerge in real time. After a n...
First Principles: Towards a Thesis on Digital Commerce & Logistics
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Lydia Idem, Chief Operating Officer of LoftyInc Capital and Managing Director of FM Capital Group. We discuss what “poin...
Leta: Why AI Compounds Logistics Efficiency at Scale
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Nick Joshi, Founder and CEO of Leta, a startup that uses AI to optimize delivery routes, track shipments in real time, s...
Logistics for Trade: Why Paps is Building End-to-End Infrastructure
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Bamba Lo, CEO and Co-founder of Paps, a technology-enabled logistics company operating across Francophone Africa. He exp...
Inefficiency the Income Thief: Lori and the Financial Story of African Logistics
The cost of moving goods across Africa remains one of the continent's toughest economic challenges. With logistics accounting for up to 75% of the price of goods—compa...
Reflections on Sote: A Business Model for Freight Forwarding
On this episode of The Trajectory Africa, Samora Kariuki, CEO and Founder of Frontier Fintech and former Director at Sote, a digital logistics and supply chain infrast...
Talking to Trade: How Chpter Helps Businesses Sell Socially
In this episode of The Trajectory Africa, Mark Kiarie, Co-founder and CEO of Chpter, explains conversational commerce and how his company uses AI to help businesses se...
All in One: How Bumpa Aggregates Digital Services for BizOpps
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Kelvin Umechukwu, Founder and CEO of Bumpa, a company that provides sellers with the tools needed for digital commerce, ...
The Full Stack Experience: Dukka's BizOpps Ecosystem for Merchants
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Keturah Ovio, CEO of Dukka, a company that’s changing how small businesses operate in Nigeria (and beyond). Dukka integr...
B2B E-Commerce to Fintech: How Chari is Charting a Path to Profitability
In this episode of The Trajectory Africa, Ismael Belkhayat, CEO and founder of Chari, a b2b e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional retailers in French-speakin...
Asset Efficiency in B2B E-commerce: Maad’s Journey to Single Market Scale
In this episode of The Trajectory Africa’s series on digital commerce and logistics, Sidy Niang and Jessica Long, Co-founders of Maad, a retail platform connecting FMC...
Premium "Informal" Retailers: How Sarafu Captures Value in B2B E-commerce
This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Firas Ahmad, CEO of Sarafu, a B2B e-commerce platform, and AzamPay, a payments platform, both in Tanzania. Firas shares ...
The “Banana” Company: How Twiga Made the "Impossible" Repeatable
On this episode of The Trajectory Africa, Kikonde Mwatela, former COO of Twiga, talks about how it tackled a fundamental problem in Kenya's banana supply chain—turning...
Africa's S Curves: A Case for Realistic Optimism
In this episode of The Trajectory Africa, DFS Lab General Partner Stephen Deng introduces "Africa's S-curves," a framework that explains why technology transitions on ...
The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles (Digital Commerce & Logistics)
The Trajectory Africa’s second series, The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles, is a two-part exploration of what powers fundamental value creation...
Finding Fintech's Future: Towards a Thesis on Investing in Africa
The Trajectory Africa’s first principles series was inspired by a desire to understand the drivers and assumptions underlying investable opportunities in key sectors h...
Building the "Boring" Stuff: Infrastructure for Money Movement & Trade
In Episode 1 of this series, Abraham Augustine, Research Partner of trendsAf and Comms and Programs Lead at Norrsken warned against “long arm, no mouth” syndrome and t...
Captain MAX: Democratizing Access to Electric Vehicles
Back in Episode 7 of Trajectory Africa’s first series, Barbara Iyayi, CEO & Founding Partner of Unicorn Growth Capital made a strong statement about the ubiquity of fi...
Save Now, Buy Later: A Culturally-relevant Approach to Consumption?
In the previous episode of The Trajectory Africa, we explored the art and science of community lending to microbusinesses. In this episode, we turn from business lendi...
Banking on Social Intelligence: A Community Model for Microbusiness Lending
In the previous episode of the Trajectory Africa, we heard from Kiiru Muhoya and Judith Bogonko at Fingo about the importance of cultivating Africa’s youth as the next...
