Building Financial Infrastructure From Cameroon: How PaySika’s Founders Are Betting on Central Africa’s Digital Future

ABE FOUNDERS | SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 Africa’s technology story is often told through the same handful of cities. Lagos. Nairobi. Cairo. Cape Town. They have become the continent’s most visible startup hubs, attracting founders, venture capital firms and international attention. But some of Africa’s most interesting companies are being built outside those established centres —…

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She Trained to Become a Doctor. Then Iman Abuzeid Decided Healthcare Hiring Was Broken — and Built a Company to Fix It

SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 12, 2026 Iman Abuzeid had already completed the kind of education that usually determines the rest of a person’s career. She had trained as a doctor in London. Medicine ran through her family. Becoming a physician offered prestige, stability and a clear professional path. After years of medical school, the…

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Saturday ABE Founders: Inside Sirdab — The Entrepreneurs Building the Logistics Infrastructure Behind a Growing Gulf Economy

  SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 5, 2026 Warehouses are rarely glamorous. Neither are trucks. Inventory management doesn’t dominate dinner-table conversations. And few children grow up telling their parents they dream of optimizing warehouse capacity. But Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah saw something different. They saw infrastructure. More specifically, they saw businesses across Saudi Arabia…

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ABE FOUNDERS | Elana Laichena Is Building Flowt to Solve One of Africa’s Biggest Business Problems: Getting the Money to Grow

 ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 For many small businesses, growth begins with a frustrating contradiction. The customers are there. The product is selling. The entrepreneur knows that buying more inventory, adding equipment or expanding production could generate more revenue. But the money needed to make that next move isn’t there. For thousands of small…

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He Thinks Robots Are 16 Months From Their “ChatGPT Moment” — Wang Xiaogang Is Building the Brain to Make It Happen

  ABE FOUNDERS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 The humanoid-robot industry has become very good at producing moments that look like science fiction. Robots can dance. They can box. They can work through obstacle courses. And, as we reported earlier today, one Chinese humanoid has now completed a 100-metre test run in 9.32 seconds. But…

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