Wrote about what it actually takes for a US enterprise to trust an African SaaS company with their operations.
Spoiler: the first questions they asked were not about features.
Full piece on @Techpoint Africa 👇
techpoint.africa/insight/wha…#AfricanTech#SaaS#AgenticAI
From student → builder → engineer.
Huge congratulations to Anerico Kakai, GAiF’s Senior Software Engineer, on earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science 🎓
The journey is just getting started. 🚀
#GAiF#BuildInPublic#AfricanTech#DeKUT
ATWCE - Africa Technology World Congress Expo is quietly building Africa's deeptech ecosystem by connecting engineers, researchers, and institutions across AI, semiconductors, hardware, and frontier technologies.
This matters beyond just networking.
Africa's deeptech moment requires more than individual companies.
It requires talent pipelines, shared research infrastructure, policy frameworks, and a community of practitioners who can reference each other's work.
ATWCE is building the connective tissue.
At Nelix, we are part of this ecosystem.
Our engineers engage with this community because the chip design challenge we are working on cannot be solved in isolation.
Sovereign technology is a team sport.
Glad to be playing it alongside builders across the continent.
Connect with us lets know what you are building
Nelix.io#AfricanDeeptech#ADTC#AfricanEngineers#AfricanTech#Semiconductors#AfricaTech#AfricanDeepTech#Semiconductors#HardwareEngineering#ArtificialIntelligence#InnovationEcosystem#SovereignTechnology
Electricity Theft Starts Before the Meter Takes a Reading
Secure boot is one of those hardware security features that sounds technical until you understand what it prevents.
A technician can physically access a meter, replace the firmware with a modified version that reports false readings, and the meter will run it without question.
Secure boot changes that.
Before executing a single instruction, the chip verifies the cryptographic signature of the firmware.
If the firmware has been tampered with or comes from an untrusted source, the chip refuses to boot.
This protection is enforced at the silicon level.
It cannot be disabled through a software update or a remote command.
In Africa, where electricity theft costs utilities hundreds of millions annually,
secure boot is not just a feature.
It is the difference between a meter you can trust and one you cannot.
At Nelix, we're building silicon security from the first instruction executed because trust in critical infrastructure starts at boot.
What more can we do to mitigate electricity theft in Africa?
#HardwareSecurity#SecureBoot#Semiconductors#SmartMetering#AfricanTech
Something important has happened in the semiconductor world that most people outside the industry have underappreciated.
A royalty-free, open-source processor architecture called RISC-V is now being adopted by major companies across the globe.
Historically, designing processors meant licensing proprietary instruction sets like ARM or x86, which are expensive and controlled by foreign IP holders, with terms set externally.
RISC-V changes that calculus.
African chip designers can now build processors without paying per-unit ISA royalties to foreign IP owners.
Open sourced silicon lowers the barrier to entry, putting indigenous chip development within Africa's reach.
Open-source silicon is to hardware what Linux was to software.
Nelix embraces these trends by contributing to open hardware libraries and security frameworks.
We actively engage in pan-African tech communities, sharing expertise in secure hardware and IoT.
This helps connect African innovation to the global ecosystem and strengthens the continent’s deep-tech capacity.
The timing couldn’t be better for Africa’s deep-tech moment.
Read more at nelix.io#RISC-V #OpenSourceSilicon#Semiconductors#AfricanTech#DeepTech#ChipDesign#Nelix#OpenSource#TechEcosystem
🔷 216 Capital will be at VivaTech 2026 in Paris, June 17–20.
Our presence this year:
→ Investor Reverse Pitch — Hassen Arfaoui, Principal
→ AfricaTech Award Jury — Dhekra Khelifi, Partner
If you'd like to connect in Paris, reach out.
#216Capital#VivaTech2026#AfricanTech
The most dangerous weapon pointed at African unity right now isn't colonialism, isn't Western interference, isn't even poverty. It's the phone in our pocket.
#AfricanTech#FIFAWorldCup#WeAre26#AfCFTA#AfricaUnity
The Nigerian educational system spent
16 years preparing us for jobs...
That robots are now doing for free. 😂💀
Let that sink in for a second. 🫠
We read textbooks written in 1987.
Wrote exams by candlelight during NEPA. 💡😭
Paid school fees that broke our parents.
Graduated with a certificate...
To enter a job market that doesn't
have enough jobs. 😶
I'm not bitter though. 😄
The internet didn't ask for my certificate.
AI didn't ask for my CGPA.
Crypto didn't ask for my convocation date.
They only asked ONE question:
"What can you build?" 🏗️
That's the only question that matters now..
#Nigeria#Education#Tech#AI#Crypto#BuildingInPublic#YouthEmpowerment#AfricanTech
You're in London, Joburg, Kin , lagos, Accra, Nairobi, anywhere in Africa or you know someone who is, this is it.
babuspace.uk sign up today. Saturday we launch.
RT to help us find the last few testers. Every share counts. 🙏
#BabuSpace#AfricanTech#Beta#LastCall
ALT NFORSHIFU234 Dev introducing WishArena dark banner showing WishArena headline with live FIFA World Cup 2026 arena page on mobile phone mockup stadium graphic and A new community space inside WishIT tagline on dark background
Day 3 at #LTW and everything’s starting to connect 🤝
Proud to see our delegations building real bridges between Africa & the UK 🌍
Highlights: Kenya startup support talks, strong #WABA conversations, and Algeria’s first #LTW delegation.
Now it’s about scaling African tech globally 🚀
#LondonTechWeek#AfricanTech#StartupGrowth