Edtech
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Apr 21, 2026
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2 min read
AI Can't Fix Education in Africa, Because It’s Solving The Wrong Problem
Taptic, the free study platform built for African learners, reached 3.6 million sessions across seven countries in 2025. Its founder, Veer Gosai, has a specific, data-backed argument for why the AI platforms flooding the edtech market are solving the wrong problem.
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Apr 14, 2026
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5 min read
200 SA Startups Raised Funding in Covid: Where Are They Now?
Between 2020 and 2021, over 200 South African startups raised funding in what became the biggest deal period in SA startup history. The total capital deployed ran into the billions of rands. Five years on, the clearest verdict from the data is this: the companies that built infrastructure for businesses survived and scaled, and the companies that bet on permanent shifts in consumer behaviour mostly didn't.
