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Top Story: Can African Graduates Lead the Next Wave of Global Tech Talent Race? Breedj Thinks the Time Is Now
Africa is home to one of the world’s fastest-growing pool of young, technically trained graduates, yet global employers continue to overlook this talent in favour of more familiar markets. Breedj, a talent mobility startup is working to change that imbalance.
Breedj believes the problem isn’t competence, it’s perception. And through an ambitious remote-work programme placing hundreds of African graduates into global roles, the company is on a mission to correct long-standing misconceptions about African talent.
The startup’s co-founder Nicolas Goldstein, says one of the most common errors global employers make is underestimating the readiness of African graduates for international work.
“Many employers assume African graduates need excessive training or lack remote-work experience, when in reality the continent is producing highly skilled and motivated young people,” he notes.
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On Startup Spotlight:
Zazu Raises $1 Million to Make Banking, Payroll, and Compliance Easy for African SMEs
Zazu, a digital financial operating system for African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to position itself as a “Mercury-style” banking experience for Africa.
Founded in 2024 by Rinse Jacobs and Germain Bahri, both former Solarisbank employees, Zazu says it raised the funding to accelerate its expansion in South Africa and Morocco, laying the groundwork for a pan-African rollout in 2026.
With more than 50 SMEs already in beta and a waitlist exceeding 1,000 businesses, the startup says it aims to address the funding and operational gap affecting Africa’s “missing middle.”
“Traditional banks have very archaic measures and metrics about how they deal with and bank SMEs,” says Jacobs. “There is a big mismatch at the moment between the daily tools that SMEs are using versus the kind of tools that they’re using in their banking environment.”
Quadri Adejumo brings you all the details. Read here.
Also Read:
MTN, SMEDAN Seal Strategic Partnership to Boost SME Growth Through Digital Tools and Market Access. Yakub Abdulrasheed brings us the details, here.
Quote of the Day:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.
Thank you for joining me yet again this evening. Stay safe, and see you tomorrow for the next tech newsletter.
Best, Quadri
