For all the noise around Africa’s startup innovation ecosystems, it remains the case that African tech is still in its early stages, with relatively few sectors or businesses reaching a level of maturity where we are seeing large-scale M&A activity.

One less acclaimed sector, largely neglected by the likes of CNN and the BBC, is the Internet of Things (IoT) – perhaps less glamorous than investment platforms for smallholder farmers or mobile diagnostics apps, but quietly developing on the continent where a number of companies – notably in South Africa – have matured very quickly.