The Trajectory Africa

By Tayo Akinyemi

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Episodes: 45

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The Trajectory Africa is a “pop-up” podcast exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and startup formation in Africa. With the unique African landscape—market characteristics, business environment, goals, and culture—as a starting point, The Trajectory Africa aims to identify a destination for African tech, as well as the sign posts that signal direction of travel. It’s modeled on the concept of a mixtape, in which each episode, or “track” will feature a conversation with a “guest artist”, and a playlist for inspiration.

Episode Date
Goodbye for now, Trajectory Africa
Jul 02, 2025
First Principles: Towards a Thesis on Digital Commerce & Logistics
Jun 26, 2025
Leta: Why AI Compounds Logistics Efficiency at Scale
Jun 19, 2025
Logistics for Trade: Why Paps is Building End-to-End Infrastructure
Jun 12, 2025
Inefficiency the Income Thief: Lori and the Financial Story of African Logistics
Jun 05, 2025
Reflections on Sote: A Business Model for Freight Forwarding
May 29, 2025
Talking to Trade: How Chpter Helps Businesses Sell Socially
May 22, 2025
All in One: How Bumpa Aggregates Digital Services for BizOpps
May 15, 2025
The Full Stack Experience: Dukka's BizOpps Ecosystem for Merchants
May 08, 2025
B2B E-Commerce to Fintech: How Chari is Charting a Path to Profitability
May 03, 2025
Asset Efficiency in B2B E-commerce: Maad’s Journey to Single Market Scale
Apr 24, 2025
Premium "Informal" Retailers: How Sarafu Captures Value in B2B E-commerce
Apr 17, 2025
The “Banana” Company: How Twiga Made the "Impossible" Repeatable
Apr 09, 2025
Africa's S Curves: A Case for Realistic Optimism
Apr 03, 2025
The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles (Digital Commerce & Logistics)
Mar 26, 2025
Finding Fintech's Future: Towards a Thesis on Investing in Africa
Sep 17, 2024
Building the "Boring" Stuff: Infrastructure for Money Movement & Trade
Aug 23, 2024
Captain MAX: Democratizing Access to Electric Vehicles
Aug 12, 2024
Save Now, Buy Later: A Culturally-relevant Approach to Consumption?
Aug 01, 2024
Banking on Social Intelligence: A Community Model for Microbusiness Lending
Jul 24, 2024
Banking Africa's Ambitious: Anatomy of a Partner-Powered Neobank
Jul 11, 2024
B2B Payments: Unseating Cash through Value Chain Integration
Jun 27, 2024
Thinking Differently: A Case for Venture Building in African VC
Jun 18, 2024
Cross Border Payments and the Alchemy of Price and Volatility
May 23, 2024
A Wordline Playbook for Africa: from Payments Infrastructure to Solutions
May 09, 2024
The Hard Thing about (Consumer) Payments in Africa
Apr 24, 2024
Beyond Fintech? On building financial systems in Africa
Apr 11, 2024
Long arm with no mouth: The physical limits of Africa's digital economy
Mar 28, 2024
The Engine of African Venture: A Return to First Principles
Mar 20, 2024
Le ou La: Rightsizing Complexity when (Venture) Building in Francophone Africa
Mar 09, 2023
Popping Cristal: On How to Tap Unmet Need in Francophone Markets
Feb 22, 2023
On Our Own?: Growing Francophone Startup Champions
Dec 06, 2022
The Trajectory Africa Rewind: Principles for Understanding African Venture
Sep 29, 2022
Tracing Roots: The Role of LPs in African Venture Ecosystem(s)
May 23, 2022
Listening with Empathy: Fundraising beyond Spreadsheets
Apr 27, 2022
Breaking Boundaries: Building Wealth & Community through African VC
Mar 31, 2022
Fun with VC Math: Designing Funds & Exits in Africa
Mar 03, 2022
Perception vs. Reality: How Fintech is Driving Africa's Digital Economy
Jan 28, 2022
If You Build It, They Will Come: Creating a Lending Ecosystem for African SMEs
Dec 16, 2021
No Enterprise Left Behind: The Role of SMEs in Africa's Venture Landscape
Dec 15, 2021
One Step at a Time: Sizing Consumer Markets & Enabling Consumption in Nigeria
Sep 23, 2021
Hold the C.R.E.A.M.: Decoding Consumer Markets & Digital Commerce in Africa
Aug 25, 2021
We Can Solve It Ourselves: The Case for African Startup Success
Jul 28, 2021
Don't Start a Fund? Kinyungu's New Take on Chasing Outliers
Jun 23, 2021
Welcome to The Trajectory: Africa!
May 14, 2021