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Nigeria's Tizeti (YC W17) concluded a $3 million Series A funding round (iafrikan.com)
27 points by iafrikan on Sept 5, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



I would love to see the tech for something like this.


It's a pity that they had to partner with Facebook though. You get free internet, Facebook's internet. I wonder how similar it is to Facebook's Internet For All that they attempted in India.


This is awesome. Great work


I noticed the site's name has Africa with a K, and I thought nothing of it other than branding, but then I saw one of their recent articles spelled the name of the continent with a K as well. Here is perhaps why:

http://www.informafrica.com/information/why-do-some-people-s...

(It was apparently originally spelled with a K and it symbolizes a repurposing of the term by Africans themselves)


Correct.




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