About The Techbull

The Techbull is an independent newsroom covering the technology, money and infrastructure shaping Africa — and the African operators, founders, regulators and investors shaping the rest of the world.

We started The Techbull because the most consequential stories in African tech were either buried in PR-heavy launch coverage, or written from a distance by reporters who had never set foot in Nairobi, Lagos, Kigali or Cairo. We believe the continent’s tech story deserves first-hand reporting, careful sourcing, and the same level of analytical rigor that the Bay Area or Berlin take for granted.

What we cover

Our beat is broad on purpose. We cover startup funding, product launches, regulation, fintech, mobile money, internet infrastructure, hardware, AI, security, climate tech, jobs, and the macro forces — currency volatility, taxes, capital controls — that decide who builds what and where. If a story affects how the next generation of African operators ship, raises, hires, or scales, it’s on our radar.

We also cover the diaspora. African engineers, founders and investors operating from London, Dubai, New York and Singapore are part of the same ecosystem, and we report on them with the same standards.

Editorial independence

We are reader-funded and ad-funded. We do not accept payment to write or kill stories. Sponsored content, when it appears, is clearly labeled “Paid Partnership” and lives outside the editorial pipeline. Our advertisers have no input into our coverage, and our journalists do not see who is buying ads on a given page. Our complete Editorial Policies describe our sourcing, verification, AI usage, corrections and conflicts-of-interest standards in detail.

How we work

• Sourcing. We talk to people. Stories are built from named, on-the-record interviews wherever possible; anonymous sources are used only when there’s a clear public interest and a documented reason their identity must be protected.
• Verification. Numbers are cross-checked. Documents are reviewed before publication. We name our sources for data unless doing so would expose someone.
• Disclosure. Reporters disclose holdings, prior employment and personal relationships that might shape their coverage. The list lives on the Editorial Policies page.
• AI. We use AI tools to help research, transcribe interviews and draft headlines. We do not publish AI-generated reporting. Every published sentence is reviewed and stands behind a human byline.
• Corrections. When we get something wrong, we correct it visibly and explain what changed and when.

Audience

Our readers are operators: founders, engineers, product people, designers, investors, regulators, lawyers and policy folks. The newsletter goes out weekly. The site is read daily. We publish across the working day in East Africa Time and again in the late afternoon to catch West and Southern Africa, plus Europe and the Americas.

How we’re funded

We earn revenue three ways: (1) direct-buy advertising on this site and in our newsletter, sold transparently with public rate cards on the Advertise page; (2) sponsored posts and partnerships, clearly labeled and editorially independent; (3) a future paid membership tier. We are not VC-backed and we will tell you who owns us — see the ownership section.

Get in touch

Tips, pitches, corrections and partnership inquiries all go through our contact page, where you can pick the right inbox. For sensitive or anonymous tips, see the secure-contact section there: we accept Signal and PGP-encrypted email.

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