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Black Swan is proud to be a hosting a unique interactive session on how to use AI to develop production ready systems leveraging agents and harnesses. At this years innovation week at Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre , on 3rd September 2026. Register at : https://lnkd.in/d2MS9kCi This is a session , you wouldn't want to miss , if you are all into using AI to design , create , deploy and maintain production ready systems or processes that serves clients in real time.

Bloomberg's 2026 African Top 25 Startups to Watch list tells you where fintech is heading on the continent. The most interesting companies are not building another app. They are fixing hard infrastructure problems: payments fragmentation, informal savings, credit scoring, mobile money gaps, SME lending, rider insurance, diaspora finance. Eight fintechs worth following: HUB24 Limited, Ivory Coast: unified payments infrastructure for West Africa Nkwa App, Cameroon: savings tools built for informal economies Omnisient - Collaborative Consumer Intelligence, South Africa: AI-powered alternative credit scoring AzamPay, Mauritius/Tanzania: digital payment infrastructure for East Africa Black Swan, Tanzania: AI-based credit assessment for small businesses Oye Kenya, : insurance and credit for boda boda riders through fuel purchases PawaPay, UK/Africa: mobile money connectivity across 20 African markets Sycamore.NG , Nigeria: digital lending and diaspora financial services What connects them is the practical nature of the problems. Savings. Credit. Payments. Insurance. Money movement. These are the building blocks that still do not work reliably for most people and businesses across Africa. The next fintech winners may not be the loudest brands on the continent. They may be the ones quietly fixing what traditional finance left broken. [Full list: https://lnkd.in/dSGhxzWD ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MuRong Technology is a leading provider of banking platforms and payment infrastructure for the Digital era. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #AfricanFintech #FintechAfrica #DigitalPayments #FinancialInclusion #AfricanStartups #BankingTechnology

Africa’s startup ecosystem is maturing — and local capital is leading the charge. Here are 10 standout companies worth watching: 🇳🇬 Terra Industries (led by Nathan Nwachuku & Maxwell Maduka) — defense drones and surveillance tech amid West Africa’s rising insecurity crisis 🇹🇿 Black Swan (led by Derick Kazimoto) — AI credit scoring using mobile money data to unlock loans for cash-based small businesses 🇳🇬 10mg Health (led by Christian Nwachukwu) — healthcare finance matching clinics with local lenders to prevent cash flow shutdowns 🇨🇮 HUB2 (led by Ashley Gauzere & Jean-Rémi Kouchakji) — single API connecting mobile wallets and bank accounts across Francophone West Africa 🇳🇬 Remedial Health (YC W22) (led by Victor Benjamin & Samuel Okwuada) — verified pharmaceutical supply chain serving 14,000+ pharmacies 🇿🇦 Omnisient - Collaborative Consumer Intelligence (led by Jon Jacobson & Anton Grutzmacher) — financial inclusion platform that has brought 3M+ unbanked South Africans into the formal system 🇳🇬 Sycamore.NG (led by Babatunde Akin Moses) — fast digital lending for SMEs, now expanding to the African diaspora in the UK 🇨🇲 Nkwa App (led by Akwo Ashangndowah & Takor William) — mobile micro-savings app built for informal, cash-reliant economies 🌍 PawaPay (led by Nikolai Barnwell) — unified mobile money gateway consolidating Africa’s fragmented payment networks 🇰🇪 Workpay (led by Paul Kimani & Jackson Kibigo) — cloud HR and payroll automating cross-border tax compliance and phone wallet payments Local capital is stepping in where foreign VC pulled back. The opportunity is hiding in plain sight. Which African startups are you watching that deserve more attention? Drop them in the comments 👇 #Africa #VentureCapital #EmergingMarkets #AfricaFinance #Startups https://lnkd.in/eDNiSGf6

Bloomberg has named three Tanzanian companies among its 25 African Startups to Watch for 2026. They are AzamPay in payments, Black Swan in credit, and SafeSip in clean water. AzamPay, owned by the Bakhresa Group and led by Firas Ahmad, moves more than $350 million a year across East Africa. It runs a Visa partnership and is preparing to add stablecoin and remittance services. Black Swan makes credit software that banks, fintechs, and other lenders use to judge who can repay, including people with no formal financial record. Atoms & Bits first covered the company in 2024, when it launched under its former name, Tausi. It won the 2025 MEST Africa Challenge and is testing in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi. The startup SafeSip runs solar-powered stations that purify and dispense clean water without on-site staff, using AI to manage upkeep and motorcycle tankers to reach households out of walking range. Its four sites serve more than 6,000 people a month, and waterborne disease is down by more than a third in the areas it covers. Founder Faith Kuya is in the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2026 cohort. South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya led the Bloomberg list with four companies each. #Africa #Startups #Tech

Solving credit justly for millions of hardworking people across Africa is not easy, especially when existing financial systems still label them as risky despite moving huge volumes of money through mobile money, banks, and other financial infrastructure every single day. That’s why we’ve made it our mission at Black Swan to build the infrastructure that enables banks, microfinance institutions, and other financial service providers to lend faster, safer, and more responsibly while building healthier credit portfolios and creating real impact for the end user. And we can't be proud enough for Black Swan making it to Bloomberg’s “25 African Startups to Watch 2026” Black Swan has been named to Bloomberg’s “25 African Startups to Watch 2026”, becoming the only Tanzanian registered company on this year’s continental list. Full Article : https://lnkd.in/dEBsy_X7 From Dar es Salaam to the rest of Africa, Black Swan is building technology that helps millions of underserved individuals and businesses access fair, inclusive, and responsible credit. This recognition reflects more than innovation. It highlights Tanzania’s growing role in shaping Africa’s financial future. Full Article: https://lnkd.in/dEBsy_X7 Derick Kazimoto Rwebu Mutahaba Financial Sector Deepening Tanzania

𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗻 — 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 You walk into a car showroom. You find the one. Then reality hits. You don’t have the full cash. And truth is — almost nobody does. The salesperson smiles: "Hakuna shida, tukuunganishe na financier." A call is made. You’re asked for documents. Then more documents. Days pass. Sometimes weeks. Meanwhile, life happens. The 40% you had saved slowly disappears. And the car? Someone else buys it — cash. This is the reality for millions of Tanzanians. Not a lack of ambition. Not a lack of need. A broken path to access. Kopagari, built in partnership with Fin Tanzania, changes that. Get pre-qualified in under 5 minutes. Receive full financing within 72 hours. Access vehicles from over 120 car dealers across Tanzania. No uncertainty. No endless waiting. Just a clear path to ownership. 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁: 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗸𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶.𝗰𝗼𝗺

We've officially launched our website, and it's more than a fresh look. This refresh reflects who we are today - focused, bold and building for impact. We’d love for you to take a look, explore our services, and see how we’re shaping the future of credit infrastructure. Visit www.bsa.ai today and let us know what you think of our new site in the comments below

When credit systems are built around how people actually live and work, credit stops being a barrier. It becomes infrastructure that builds the backbone of the economy. Across rural Tanzania, women and youth entrepreneurs are running real, growing businesses, but their financial lives are often invisible to traditional credit systems. This article highlights work by Financial Sector Deepening Tanzania, Creditinfo Tanzania, and Black Swan, showing how alternative data and smarter credit decisioning can turn everyday financial behavior into real access to productive credit. Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dPVEqfDG

Black Swan was pleased to participate in the Tanzania Annual ICT Conference (TAIC) 2026, joining the Deloitte-led panel on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) focused on Building Tanzania’s Digital Economy. The discussion reaffirmed that DPI is more than technology, it is a foundation for national transformation and the delivery of Dira 2050. At Black Swan, we support DPI adoption by leveraging AI-driven tools, working with local talent, and collaborating across public and private sectors to reduce friction, strengthen trust, and enable inclusive, interoperable digital systems. Great to share the stage with thought leaders committed to building citizen-centred digital infrastructure that accelerates Tanzania’s digital economy. #TAIC2026 #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #DigitalTransformation #Dira2050 #TanzaniaDigitalEconomy #BlackSwan ICT_Commission_Tanzania