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Top Story: Kuunda: How This Tanzania Startup Is Making Digital Loans Easier for Africans
While digital lenders like FairMoney, Carbon and M-KOPA dominate headlines, Kuunda, a Tanzanian B2B fintech solutions provider, has become one of the most influential players behind Africa’s booming consumer credit market.
Since its founding in 2018, the company says it has powered more than $3 billion in loans, enabling telecom operators, mobile money platforms and digital lenders to offer credit at scale.
Unlike most fintechs, Kuunda doesn’t lend directly to end users. Instead, it provides liquidity infrastructure and real-time lending technology to partners such as mobile money operators, digital lenders, and small businesses.
“All of our partners have reached scale. They’ve got transactional activity happening on their digital platforms,” Andrew Milne, Co-founder and Co-CEO told Techpoint. “Many of them have spent ten years building up a customer transactional base.”
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On Startup Spotlight:
How Kapil Chandwani’s ANRAK is Building the Intelligence Layer Powering the Next Era of AI
ANRAK, a London-based technology company, is building the intelligence layer that underpins the next generation of artificial intelligence.
As AI systems become more deeply embedded in government operations, enterprise processes, and smart ecosystems, ANRAK provides the secure, automated infrastructure that allows organisations to deploy, manage, and scale AI safely and intelligently.
Founded in 2025, ANRAK describes itself as the intelligence layer for secure, automated infrastructure. Its technology blends AI infrastructure, automation, and security tools into one system, giving organisations full control over how AI operates within their environments.
“ANRAK, we’re proud to be building the intelligent layer that enables this kind of ownership and control,” said Kapil Chandwani, ANRAK’s Co-founder and CEO on a LinkedIn post. “Our clients have evolved from micromanaging single AI models to macromanaging multiple AI agents, orchestrating them intelligently, safely, and at scale.”
Quadri Adejumo brings you all the details. Read here.
Also Read:
Ghana’s Affinity Africa Crosses 100,000-Customer Mark, Redefining Digital Banking 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
