The industry’s scepticism is rooted in experience.

From Windhoek to Lagos, stock exchanges across the continent are wooing startups with structured pipelines, listing incentives, and MOU ceremonies. The startups are mostly politely non-committal.

With fewer, larger funds calling the shots, patience for fragmented markets has evaporated.

Priced equity rounds from US and Gulf venture capital have all but vanished.

For the foreign founder eyeing Accra's growing tech scene, the advice is shifting.

A series of recent funding rounds involving prominent African venture investors reveals a quiet but significant shift: the continent's most active backers are writing cheques for companies that may never prioritise Africa at all.

If you are a first-time founder with a prototype and a pitch deck, you are competing for a sliver of a sliver.

Yet beneath the noise of global audience metrics, a quieter, more revealing dataset is accumulating.

The gap is not a rounding error. It maps directly onto the experience of founders who, after warm introductions and investor meetings

For the better part of a decade, Nigeria’s consumer technology sector has operated on a reassuringly straightforward demographic premise.

Since the Act came into force, DICON has pursued a pattern of institutional openness — one that has generated a succession of MoUs and, with them, structural questions.

The timing of this “milestone” is bittersweet.