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Raises, Industry Trends and Chowdeck, again
Jun 15, 2026
Unknown duration
Chowdeck and the cost of a Super App
May 18, 2026
1h 12m 18s
Moniepoint acquires Orda
Apr 11, 2026
1h 22m 53s
Moniepoint takes Alerzo to Court
Mar 9, 2026
1h 11m 00s
CBN upgrades Fintechs
Feb 19, 2026
1h 29m 20s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/15/26 |  Raises, Industry Trends and Chowdeck, again | On this episode, Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss some recent fundraises in the ecosystem — Spiro’s $215M raise backed by Impact Fund Denmark and Equitane, Nala’s $50M credit facility, LemFi’s $34.8M extension, BFREE’s growth round led by AfricInvest, and Shiprazor’s $2.65M seed funding.They also unpack Chowdeck’s vendor trust issues and explore broader financial trends and news.This episode is sponsored by Busha — Nigeria’s licensed digital assets exchange for businesses looking to move money across borders. If you are running a business exploring fast cross-border payments, stablecoin and FX liquidity, and easy treasury management, get started at busha.io/business, and for individuals? You can buy, sell, and send digital assets anywhere in the world, and also save in naira or dollars, with up to 20% annual interest. Download the Busha App and use code OPENAFRICA or visit https://surl.li/jvbwvt to get started._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/18/26 |  Chowdeck and the cost of a Super App✨ | super app strategyfood delivery+3 | — | ChowdeckARCON+2 | — | Chowdecksuper app+6 | BushaOPENAFRICA | 1h 12m 18s | |
| 4/11/26 |  Moniepoint acquires Orda✨ | acquisitionsfintech+4 | — | FlutterwaveMono+6 | Nigeria | MoniepointOrda+7 | BushaOPENAFRICA | 1h 22m 53s | |
| 3/9/26 |  Moniepoint takes Alerzo to Court✨ | legal issuesfinance+4 | — | MoniepointAlerzo+2 | Nigeria | MoniepointAlerzo+7 | BushaOPENAFRICA | 1h 11m 00s | |
| 2/19/26 |  CBN upgrades Fintechs✨ | Fintech upgradesNational MFB licences+4 | — | CBNOPay+5 | India | CBNFintech+5 | BushaOPENAFRICA | 1h 29m 20s | |
| 1/19/26 |  Flutterwave acquires Mono✨ | FintechAcquisitions+3 | — | FlutterwaveMono+4 | — | FlutterwaveMono+6 | — | 54m 39s | |
| 12/31/25 |  2025 in Review✨ | Year in Reviewpredictions+3 | — | Open Africa PodcastAcast+1 | — | 2025Year in Review+3 | — | 41m 45s | |
| 12/8/25 |  Chowdeck is Selling Airtime too✨ | fintechremittances+4 | — | LemFiNomba+3 | UKDRC+2 | fintechChowdeck+7 | — | 1h 10m 03s | |
| 10/24/25 |  On Media Reporting Standards and Remittances✨ | Agent Banking Guidelinesfraud controls+5 | Benjamin Dada | CondiaCBN+1 | — | Agent Bankingfraud controls+5 | — | 1h 11m 19s | |
| 10/1/25 |  Kredete, Rulebase & News across Africa✨ | fundingfinancial services+3 | LaoluFuro+1 | KredeteRulebase | South Africa | KredeteRulebase+5 | — | 32m 03s | |
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| 8/22/25 |  Chowdeck’s Raise, Nomba, Nedbank & iKhokha✨ | fundingtechnology+3 | — | ChowdeckNedbank+2 | — | ChowdeckNedbank+5 | — | 42m 37s | |
| 7/8/25 |  The Food Episode | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa are joined by Osarumen Osamuyi from The Subtext!They talk about the recent collapses of Vendease and Okra in the ecosystem, then take a closer look at Magic Beans, the first chapter of Foodpod – a limited series about Technology eating food in Africa – by Osarumen._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/25 |  Fincra’s Expansion, Palmpay’s plan to Raise, and Alleged Industry News | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about dLocal’s intention to acquire AZA Finance, Fincra’s Expansion to East Africa, Palmpay’s plan to Raise, and other alleged Industry news._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/24/25 |  The Rant about Bank Charges | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Banks—how banks make money, how banks loan money, and what most Nigerians think about bank charges, while reading commentary from Twitter (X).Read our substack about Bank Charges here_We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/2/25 |  Paystack’s Zap, Payhippo’s Pivot, and Premium Tiers for Neobanks | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Paystack launching Zap, PayHippo’s recent $4 million raise, rebrand as Rivy and pivot to clean energy financing, alongside news of Nigerian neobanks like Kuda and Nomba launching premium tiers._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/11/25 |  Funding Rounds, Shutdowns, and Industry News | On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Nosa, and Furo talk about Cedar Money’s $9.9 million seed round, Ghana-based fintech Oze securing undisclosed funding from Visa and DEG, Edukoya’s shutdown as a result of macroeconomic challenges, Vendease’s second round of layoffs in five months, and other industry news across the continent._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/18/25 |  Cross Border Remittance & The LemFi Playbook | Welcome to our first explainer episode for 2025!–On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about how cross border payments and remittances really work, LemFi’s expansion into Europe and why this is a good thing._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/1/25 |  The One where we talk about Bento | On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Nosa, and Furo talk about Moniepoint and Visa’s partnership, Accrue, SeamlessHR’s additional $9 million raise in series A extension, MoneyHash’s $5.2 million pre-series A raise, and what they think is really happening with Bento._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/20/25 |  Raises, Bankruptcy & 2025 Predictions | On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Nosa, and Furo talk about the KPMG Customer finance report; what exactly investing in commodity looks like, LemFi’s $53 million raise as it expands remittance services into Europe, Gokada filing for bankruptcy, some predictions for 2025, alongside other industry news._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/31/24 |  Open Africa Year in Review 2024 | …and it’s a wrap! Thank you for rocking with your favorite finance trio this year (and don’t worry, we tried not to make “doomy” predictions this time ;-) )–On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa do a month by month recap of 2024 episodes. From raises to shutdowns to unicorns to migrations to fraud, this was the year it all happened._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/17/24 |  Moniepoint wants to be a Commercial Bank | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Moniepoint raising $110 million in their series C funding and achieving Unicorn status, their ambitious plans of becoming a commercial bank and the Access bank playbook. We also discuss the reoccurring fraud problems at First Bank alongside other industry news._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/15/24 |  Rise, Chipper, and US Dollar Woes | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about some developments in the ecosystem in recent weeks. They consider Rise’s acquisition of Hisa; a Kenyan investment startup, Chipper’s expansion and securing Ghana’s SEC license, Fincra receiving a Third Party Payment Provider (TPPP) licence in South Africa, and other industry news._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/9/24 |  MTN MoMo Reshuffle, Providus Merger, and First Bank Fraud | We call this the episode that almost never was but thankfully we were able to salvage it (everybody, say thank you ‘Laolu!) and now you get to listen._On this episode of the podcast, Nosa, Furo, and 'Laolu talked about some new people changes at MTN MoMo, USA Mercury Bank’s decision to close accounts linked to Nigeria and implications, the Unity and Providus Bank Merger, and the 44 billion naira reported fraud at Nigeria’s First Bank._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. _We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/24/24 |  Global Payments and a hackathon with tbDEX | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have a guest! They are joined by Angie Jones, the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for tbd. This is Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies to move money in a fast and compliant way.They discuss tbd’s flagship protocol tbDEX, and the upcoming hackathon happening at the Africa Bitcoin Conference in December._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/3/24 |  Carbon, Cards, and Brass | On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa do a deep dive into some not so exciting news in the Tech Ecosystem; Carbon shut down its debit card service over two years after launch, the reoccurring problems with Cards among Fintechs in Nigeria, Afrigo - the CBN’s Domestic Card Scheme, Prospa, and Brass’ acquisition by a Paystack-led consortium, amongst other industry news._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on Twitter and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information._We love hearing your thoughts! Find us on X (@TheOAPod) and Instagram (@openafricapod) and tag us in your conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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