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Alistair Mokoena is a respected leader in the advertising and marketing industry who is passionate about using technology to solve social and economic challenges.
Mokoena is currently serving as Google’s Country Director for South Africa. In this role, Mokoena is responsible for leading the company’s business operations in South Africa.
He is also focused on driving the country’s digital transformation and economic growth.
Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH), the flagship philanthropic enterprise spearheaded by Alibaba Philanthropy and rooted in the Jack Ma Foundation, has unveiled the 20 entrepreneurs selected to advance to the semi-finals of its prestigious 2025 competition.
Koolboks, a cleantech venture operating in Nigeria and France, has secured $ 11 million in Series A financing to expand its cooling-as-a-service model across Africa and establish its inaugural assembly facility in Nigeria.
Intella, the Egyptian-founded leader in dialectal Arabic speech AI, has raised US$12.5 million in a significantly oversubscribed Series A funding round.
