How Pula wants to insure farmers against bandits
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Our guest on today's podcast is Temitope Adeyemi, CEO and Founder, insurtech startup, Pay-U. He joins us as we discuss: Pula's $20m raise Starlink's troubles in Africa Lessons from building Konga by Sim Shagaya Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/multichoices-revenue-has-been-growing-at-an-average-of-4/   Download Intelpoint's The Nigerian Insurance Industry report here   Listen to the episode where we first talked about Sim Shagaya's VC foray: https://podcast.techpoint.africa/episodes/tap-218   Subscribe to The Modern Workplace/, Equity Merchants/, Techpoint Digest/ and Intelpoint's newsletter/    Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 03:16 - Pula's $20m raise 27:26 - Starlink's troubles in Africa 35:01 - Lessons from building Konga by Sim Shagaya    Useful links Kenya’s Pula gets $20 million Series B to offer insurance to 100 million farmers in Africa Telecom regulator orders Starlink to cut off subscribers in Zimbabwe Starlink to disconnect subscribers in Ghana, South Africa, Botswana Inside Sim Shagaya's mission to fund and support resilient African entrepreneurs Sim Shagaya on lessons learnt building Konga This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo   Email us your feedback at [email protected]. Visit www.techpoint.africa/ for more stories.   Music - Beach by MBB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnQ8dHwDSk   Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok @TechpointAfrica    
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