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This article is based on a conversation from Voices & Visions, a podcast produced through a partnership between Tutto Passa Agency and TechCabal, which explores the people and ideas shaping Africa’s innovation economy. The world’s biggest climate challenge at the moment may not be raising more money, but deploying the existing capital differently. In Africa, investors have committed $44 billion annually, up nearly 50% from a few years ago, yet founders building technologies to help farmers survive droughts, businesses reduce emissions, and communities adapt to changing weather patterns still struggle to access capital. According to Victor Ndiege, the CEO of Kenya Climate Ventures (KCV), an impact investment manager focused on early-stage climate enterprises, their problem is not a shortage of investors but funds unwilling to finance risk on local terms. The disconnect is exposing one of the weaknesses in Africa’s green transition. As climate adaptation becomes the top policy agenda, local fund managers argue that the financial instruments meant to support it are designed for mature markets and not small local enterprises. “There are many investors who have not been able to deploy capital, not because there are no businesses requiring capital, but because of the terms and structures around deploying that capital,” Ndiege said. “The financial architecture is the most important aspect of investing, not the name of the instrument.” Long game While billions of dollars have been committed globally to climate action, only a tiny share reaches businesses helping communities adapt to changing weather patterns. Climate adaptation—the technologies and services that help economies cope with changing rainfall patterns, water shortages, and rising temperatures—remains one of the least financed segments of climate investing. Many climate businesses require long-term investments before generating stable cash flows. For example, farmers adopting new irrigation technologies or households switching to solar power might not produce venture-scale returns overnight. Their growth relies on patient deployment and steady operational growth. Ndiege argues that this mismatch comes from the assumptions investors bring to Africa. His criticism extends beyond venture capital to the development finance ecosystem. KCV is currently raising a $25 million climate fund after building a revolving investment facility over the past decade. However, several development finance institutions have indicated that the proposed fund is too small for their participation. “$25 million is what we need to grow sustainably,” Ndiege said. “But many investors would rather wait until we are managing $100 million before coming in. By then, we may no longer need them.” This observation exposes a paradox that is alive in most startup ecosystems around the world. Institutions that are meant to finance early-stage startups only back mature fund managers and do not help smaller ones scale. Most ecosystems are built in such a way that capital follows validated successes. Meanwhile, local entrepreneurs continue struggling to secure financing. Local currencies The firm invests for as long as seven years, allowing companies to mature before repayment obligations intensify. Funding is disbursed in stages, matching the pace at which businesses grow. One area where KCV claims it has broken with most of its peers is currency. It deploys local currency financing and not dollars or pounds. “If we chose to invest in dollars or pounds, businesses would spend more money hedging against currency fluctuations,” Ndiege said. “We want entrepreneurs to spend their time growing their businesses rather than responding to risks that we can help them overcome.” For African businesses generating revenues in local currencies, exchange-rate volatility can turn otherwise viable investments into distressed assets. The issue has become important as many African currencies have depreciated against the dollar over the past three years, increasing repayment burdens for companies financed in foreign currency. KCV also rejects the argument that early-stage companies should avoid debt entirely. According to Ndiege, most investors assume that only equity financing is appropriate for young businesses. In 2025, African startups raised a record $1.64 billion to $1.8 billion in debt financing. “The question is not whether debt works,” he said. “The question is how you structure that debt facility to respond to the growth of that startup.” Repayment schedules, interest costs, and deployment timing, he argues, should reflect business life cycles and not banking rules. “If our portfolio companies do not succeed, then we have not succeeded,” Ndiege said. “It should not be an investor-investee relationship. It should be a partnership for growth.” This support should be extended to other operational needs of a young company. Many African startups fail not because the demand is absent but because they lack audited financial statements, governance structures, or investment documentation required by institutional investors. “The challenge is translating what entrepreneurs know into a language investors understand,” Ndiege says. “It is not about their ability to do business. It is about compliance.” KCV’s investment combines capital with technical assistance, governance support and managerial development. The approach is resource-intensive but reflects the realities of African enterprise growth, where many businesses emerge from informal markets before formalising. If climate finance continues to reward only businesses that have already succeeded, Africa may discover that the biggest barrier to climate adaptation was never the availability of money, but the way capital itself was designed. Listen to the full podcast on Spotify.
Read MoreUkiyo, a South African educational technology company, has launched a mobile platform it says addresses a gap in how young people in the country access opportunities, from bursaries and accommodation to internships and mental health support. The Global Student Support Platform (GSSP) combines scholarships, job listings, mentorship, wellness services, tutoring, and career development tools in a single app. Ukiyo is positioning it as a marketplace for youth development services, free for students to use. The launch comes as South Africa‘s youth unemployment crisis deepens. In the first quarter of 2026, the unemployment rate of youth aged 15 to 24 in South Africa stood at 60.90%, while around 3.9 million young people in the same age bracket are classified as not being in employment, education, or training (NEET). For Nozuko Mzamo, founder of Ukiyo, the issue is a lack of systems that connect ambitious young people to opportunities. “South Africa does not have a shortage of ambitious young people. It has a shortage of integrated pathways into economic participation and systems that connect young people to what they need to succeed,” Mzamo said in a statement. “We built GSSP to support the full journey, from finding a place to study and securing education funding, to building a career and accessing mentorship.” On GSSP, students can explore study options, access mentorship opportunities, connect with accommodation providers, find wellness and mental health support, attend skills development workshops, and search for internships, graduate programmes, and entry-level jobs. Founded in 2017 after operating informally since 2014, Ukiyo was created to tackle youth unemployment by addressing some of its underlying causes, including limited access to information and skills development. Mzamo said the idea took shape after she observed that opportunities discussed in corporate boardrooms rarely reached the students who needed them. Ukiyo built GSSP to close that information gap, particularly for young people outside major urban centres. The company noted that GSSP has attracted more than 4,200 users who have generated over 1,300 click-throughs to bursary and scholarship opportunities and more than 2,100 click-throughs to job listings in its private beta. Users currently discover opportunities through filters and searches, but Mzamo noted that Ukiyo plans to introduce intelligent matching features in future releases. “Whether you’re figuring out what to study and where, looking for bursaries or scholarships to fund your studies, needing academic, psychosocial or career readiness support, hunting for student deals, or searching for your first job, GSSP walks with you through every one of those milestones and equips you with the skills and information you need at each stage,” Mzamo said. Ukiyo works with corporate partners, including higher education institutions, funders, employers and service providers to bring opportunities and support services onto the platform, according to Mzamo. Some of its current partners include Thrive Accommodation, North-West University, The LINK by Airlink, and Emeris. With its launch, GSSP competes with platforms such as LinkedIn, Pnet, and Jobox that help students and graduates discover internships, graduate programmes, and entry-level jobs. However, Mzamo argued that most existing services focus on only one part of the student journey. “That’s exactly the distinction: they address one or two pieces of the puzzle,” she said. “GSSP covers the full cycle, from studies to funding, to skills development, to finding that first job.” Mzamo noted that the platform had already started including global exchange programme opportunities, with plans to expand its scope beyond South Africa. “We’re expanding our research to cover Pan-African and broader international markets, but for now, the opportunities on GSSP are for South African youth, whether they choose to stay, study, or work here or abroad,” she said.
Read MoreTable of contents What is the June 2026 Pixel Drop? New features hitting the Pixel 9a specifically What Android 17 brings to all Pixel phones, including the 9a What the Pixel 9a is not getting yet How to get the Android 17 update on your Pixel 9a Android 17 started rolling out to the Pixel 9a on Tuesday, as part of Google’s June Pixel Drop. This is a major feature update. Your phone is getting new multitasking tools, a smarter screen recorder, better privacy controls, and one genuinely useful perk that only just landed on budget Pixels: sharing files with iPhones. The rollout is happening in phases, so the update may not appear on your device right away. Head to Settings > System > System update, then tap Check for updates to pull it manually. What is the June 2026 Pixel Drop? A Pixel Drop is Google’s way of pushing new features, improvements, and regional expansions to Pixel phones, watches, and tablets throughout the year. Your device gets more capable over time, not just at launch. This month’s Drop is bigger than usual. Google bundled it with the stable release of Android 17 and Wear OS 7 for Pixel Watch. Every officially supported Pixel, from the Pixel 6 through the Pixel 10a, is eligible. The OTA download is around 1.5GB, so connect to Wi-Fi before you start. New features hitting the Pixel 9a specifically Some of what’s in this update is landing on the Pixel 9a for the first time, either because it was previously exclusive to newer Pixel models or because it’s new across the board. 1. AirDrop via Quick Share Your Pixel 9a can now share files with iPhones, iPads, and Macs through Quick Share. Google originally launched this feature on the Pixel 10 series in November 2025, then extended it to the Pixel 9 series in February 2026, and now it’s here for the 9a and 8a globally. A couple of things to know before you use it: The iPhone or iPad user needs to have their AirDrop set to “Everyone for 10 Minutes.” AirDrop’s “Contacts Only” mode does not work across platforms. Your Pixel needs to be in Receive mode or set to discoverable for the transfer to go through. 2. Fake call detection Fake Call Detection is a Phone by Google feature that flags calls where someone is pretending to be a saved contact. When a contact calls you, their device sends a silent, encrypted signal to yours confirming the call is real. If a scammer is spoofing that number, the signal is missing. Your phone then pings your contact’s actual device to double-check, and if that device confirms it is not placing a call, you get an on-screen warning before you even say hello. For this to work, you need: Android 12 or later with Phone by Google, Google Contacts, and Google Messages installed RCS is enabled on your device The person calling you also needs to use Phone by Google. It will not detect spoofing if they use an iPhone or the Samsung dialer. It is on by default. 3. Bubbles Bubbles is Android 17’s main multitasking addition. You can turn any app into a floating window that sits on top of whatever else you’re doing. Long-press any app icon on your home screen, tap the new Bubble option, and the app shrinks into a movable chat-head-style icon. Drag it wherever you want, or swipe it down to close. Google caps it at five active app bubbles at a time. One thing to note: the dedicated Bubble Bar dock is a foldable-only feature. The Pixel 9a gets Bubbles in full, but the bar that organizes them at the bottom of the screen is only for devices like the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. 4. Screen reactions Screen Reactions lets you record your screen and your face simultaneously. Your selfie camera feed overlays the screen recording, so you can react to what you’re showing without needing a separate app. To activate it: Swipe down twice to open Quick Settings Tap the screen record icon Toggle “Show selfie camera,” then tap start You can tap, drag, and resize your selfie feed while recording It only works when screen recording is set to capture the entire screen. What Android 17 brings to all Pixel phones, including the 9a Beyond the features above, Android 17 brings platform-wide upgrades to every supported Pixel phone. 1. Better privacy controls for apps Two new controls limit what apps can access: One-time location access: a new option lets you share your precise location for a single session only. When the app closes, the access expires. You also get a persistent location indicator in your status bar, similar to the camera and microphone indicators, so you always know when an app is using your location. Contacts Picker: instead of granting an app access to your full address book, you can now choose specific contacts to share and only the fields the app actually needs. It is a one-time snapshot, so the app does not get future updates to those contacts. 2. Stronger security if your phone is lost or stolen Find Hub’s Mark as Lost mode now requires biometric authentication in addition to your PIN. A thief who knows your passcode can no longer disable tracking or regain access. Marking the device lost also hides Quick Settings and blocks new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections. Remote Lock and Theft Detection Lock are switched on by default. 3. App memory limits to reduce stuttering Android 17 now enforces per-app memory limits based on your device’s total RAM. This targets memory leaks that cause UI stuttering, faster battery drain, and unexpected app kills. Google says the limits are conservative and most apps should not be affected. 4. Live Updates Live Updates show real-time status directly on your lock screen, Always-On Display, and status bar chip. Useful for tracking a food delivery, following a live score, or watching your ride approach. Android 17 adds a new
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