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Kenyan startup Chumz has built a goal-based mobile app that helps users save…
May 31, 2023
Kenyan startup GoBEBA says it is reimagining Africa’s utilities supply…
May 31, 2023
Nigerian fintech startup Earnipay, which provides flexible and on-demand salary….
May 31, 2023
South Africa’s Tyme, one of the fastest growing digital banking groups in the…
May 24, 2023
Ethiopia’s JEMLA is a B2B e-commerce wholesale platform that is helping…
May 24, 2023
Brazilian fintech company Ebanx S.A. has disclosed plans to operate in 11 African…
May 24, 2023
M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African…
May 17, 2023
Nigerian startup fitted has developed a digital platform that uses machine…
May 17, 2023
South African e-health startup Quro Medical has raised ZAR25 million…
May 10, 2023
Nigeria’s Towntalk has built a data infrastructure that leverages…
May 10, 2023
Kenyan startup Fingo has partnered Ecobank to launch a new app aimed at…
May 10, 2023
Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre…
May 3, 2023
Smile Identity, a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African…
May 3, 2023
Kenyan women-only taxi service An Nisa is planning expansion to Saudi Arabia…
May 3, 2023
Smile Identity, a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African…
Apr 26, 2023
South African startup Maholla, a viral consumer reward’s app, has concluded…
Apr 26, 2023
Nigerian startup Peppa is making it safer to shop online in Africa, with a focus on…
Apr 26, 2023
Nigerian startup Alajo is an escrowed digital piggy bank for the under- and…
Apr 19, 2023
Venture capital activity around climate tech has been heating up in Africa des…
Apr 19, 2023
Nigeria’s Autochek, an auto-tech company making car ownership more…
Apr 19, 2023
Victory Farms, a Kenya-based aquaculture startup, has raised $35 mill…
Apr 12, 2023
Last month, pan-African venture capital firm Verod-Kepple Africa Partners…
Apr 12, 2023
Kenyan web3 platform Fonbnk has partnered with Tanda to launch a first…
Apr 12, 2023
Equator, a climate tech venture capital firm focused on sub-Saharan Africa…
Apr 5, 2023
The U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has made…
Apr 5, 2023
Shuttlers, a Nigerian shared mobility company that allows individual and…
Apr 5, 2023
Payday, a neobank issuing global (USD, EUR & GBP) accounts to Africans, has…
Mar 29, 2023
To save brands from entering emerging markets blindly, Rwazi, a market…
Mar 29, 2023
Google has taken down hundreds of loan apps from the Play Store in Kenya since…
Mar 29, 2023
Social commerce has taken the African commercial landscape by storm recent…
Mar 22, 2023
Credable, an embedded finance platform that provides its clients with the tech…
Mar 22, 2023
Egypt’s Almentor, the leading online video learning platform in Arabic, has raised…
Mar 22, 2023
Naspers, Africa’s most valuable tech company by market capitalization…
Mar 15, 2023
MENA-focused seed investor Flat6Labs has announced the launch of a new…
Mar 15, 2023
Nigerian credit-led digital banking platform FairMoney has acquired…
Mar 15, 2023
Egyptian fintech startup Copal has partnered Mastercard to launch a family…
Mar 8, 2023
Nigerian startup Tabulio has developed a social network aimed at connecting…
Mar 8, 2023
Rwandan startup, DoctorAI is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help…
Mar 8, 2023
Planet42, a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used…
Mar 1, 2023
Funded in 2019, Senegalese e-commerce startup Yoonema is an SEO-ready plat…
Mar 1, 2023
Africa’s largest e-commerce site Jumia has amended its terms and conditions…
Mar 1, 2023
African tech’s gender problem is only getting worse, with just 20.2 per cent of…
Feb 22, 2023
Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) is launching…
Feb 22, 2023
Workpay, a Kenyan HR payroll startup will soon roll out its services in 40 countr…
Feb 22, 2023
Africa’s smartphone market shrunk by 18% in 2022 compared to the previous…
Feb 15, 2023
Terraa, a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised…
Feb 15, 2023
Qotto, a solar kits provider with operations in Burkina Faso and Benin…
Feb 15, 2023
Partech, the global VC firm with several funds, has reached first close of Partech…
Feb 8, 2023
The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau, NDPB, says it will be training no fewer…
Feb 8, 2023
Starlink, a satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk, is now available for custo…
Feb 8, 2023
Egyptian fintech and e-commerce ecosystem MNT-Halan has raised up to…
Feb 1, 2023
This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had…
Feb 1, 2023
Google’s new policy requiring digital lenders in Kenya to submit proof of lice…
Feb 1, 2023
Kenyan startup Zemo is a financial management solution for growing…
Jan 25, 2023
Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions…
Jan 25, 2023
South African mobile gaming startup Carry1st has raised a US$27 million…
Jan 25, 2023
South African startup Flow is announcing that it has raised $4.5 million in pre…
Jan 18, 2023
Xetova, a Kenyan startup, is deploying technologies that make information…
Jan 18, 2023
Nigerian fintech startup Arteri is helping African healthcare SMEs access multip…
Jan 18, 2023
Tanzanian fintech startup NALA has officially launched in the European Uni…
Jan 11, 2023
Meta’s main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, Sama, announced…
Jan 11, 2023
Tunisia-founded enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep has…
Jan 11, 2023
Senegal-based startup Kwely has launched the minimum viable product…
Jan 04, 2023
Egypt’s Mahaseel Masr, a regional B2B fresh produce digital platform, has sec…
Jan 04, 2023
Nigerian startup Raenest is helping remote workers and freelancers…
Jan 04, 2023
Leading global wireless technology firm Qualcomm has launched its African…
Dec 21, 2022
A lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company Meta has been filed in Kenya’s…
Dec 21, 2022
Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has…
Dec 21, 2022
Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data…
Dec 14, 2022
South African company Finclusion Group, which is building Africa’s first credit-led…
Dec 14, 2022
Taeillo, a Lagos-based startup innovating around the issues relating to time…
Dec 14, 2022
Lagos-headquartered venture capital firm Future Africa is teaming up with TLG…
Dec 08, 2022
South African data automation startup Synatic has raised a US$2.5 million seed…
Dec 08, 2022
Kapu, a social commerce startup coming out of stealth today having raised…
Dec 08, 2022
Orda, a Nigerian food tech platform that provides a cloud-based restaurant…
Nov 30, 2022
LoftyInc Capital Management, an early-stage African-focused venture capital…
Nov 30, 2022
Revio, a South African API payment and collections company, which makes it…
Nov 30, 2022
On November 14, Nestcoin, one of the startups leading crypto and web3 effort…
Nov 23, 2022
Laid-off employees at Twitter’s Africa headquarters are accusing Twitter of…
Nov 23, 2022
Leta, a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last…
Nov 23, 2022
On November 14, Nestcoin, one of the startups leading crypto and web3 effort…
Nov 23, 2022
Kenyan startup BasiGo has raised US$6.6 million in new seed funding to begin…
Nov 16, 2022
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has today launched a $225 million…
Nov 16, 2022
New York-based venture platform Modus has launched Modus Africa, a venture…
Nov 16, 2022
Kuda, the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents…
Nov 09, 2022
Egyptian fintech startup Paymob, the leading omnichannel payments…
Nov 09, 2022
Yassir, an African super app platform that offers on-demand services such as ride…
Nov 09, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the opening of its second…
Nov 02, 2022
Egyptian fintech startup MoneyFellows has announced the first close of its…
Nov 02, 2022
Satgana, a European venture capital (VC) firm headquartered in Luxembourg…
Nov 02, 2022
Egyptian mass e-commerce startup Kenzz has raised a US$3.5 million seed…
Oct 26, 2022
Nigerian startup Lazerpay has built a blockchain-powered solution that…
Oct 26, 2022
Nigeria-based mobility fintech startup Moove, Uber’s largest vehicle supply…
Oct 26, 2022
Despite raising $55 million Series A in 2021, MaxAB, the food and grocery …
Oct 19, 2022
Bumpa, a Nigerian startup building the infrastructure to power online comme…
Oct 19, 2022
Viebeg Technologies, a Health Tech company, backed by venture capital…
Oct 11, 2022
A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ven…
Oct 11, 2022
Tech giant Google has today announced the launch of a cloud region in South Afr…
Oct 11, 2022
iiDENTIFii, the South African-based innovative biometrics tech firm, has…
Oct 05, 2022
After announcing a a pre-seed investment of $625,000 in March, and becoming…
Oct 05, 2022
Egyptian and MENA-focused venture capital firm Algebra Ventures has…
Oct 05, 2022
Nigerian startup Vendease, a digital platform that allows restaurants in…
Sep 28, 2022
Ghanaian agtech Farmerline has secured $1.5 million equity funding from Dutch…
Sep 28, 2022
Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card Financial has announced…
Sep 28, 2022
Secondary Securities Trading and Aggregation eXchange (SecondSTAX)…
Sep 21, 2022
Janngo Capital has announced the first close of its second fund at EUR34 million…
Sep 21, 2022
Nigerian startup Remedial Health, which develops solutions to make Africa’s…
Sep 21, 2022
Secondary Securities Trading and Aggregation eXchange (SecondSTAX)…
Sep 21, 2022
The UK government’s development finance institution (DFI) British…
Sep 15, 2022
EKippa, the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses…
Sep 15, 2022
This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised…
Sep 7, 2022
Nigeria’s Anchor, a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform making it possible…
Sep 7, 2022
Egyptian startup Sharwa has raised a US$2 million seed funding round as it…
Sep 7, 2022
The Nairobi-based Lori Systems, an e-logistics company digitising haulage…
Aug 17, 2022
Pastel, a startup that provides software and apps to assist retailers with…
Aug 17, 2022
Egyptian startup Convertedin, a marketing operating system for…
Aug 17, 2022
Bluechip Technologies, an African enterprise company that partners…
Aug 10, 2022
Amazon Prime Video has announced the launch of the localized version of..
Aug 10, 2022
Beacon Power Services (BPS, and energy tech company, which provides data…
Aug 10, 2022
Bluechip Technologies, an African enterprise company that partners…
Aug 10, 2022
Egyptian marketing tech start Stllr Network has closed a six-figure US…
July 27, 2022
Nigerian recruitment startup Terawork has launched IOS and Android mobile…
July 27, 2022
Africa’s first integrated tech company on a continental scale, Cassava Tech…
July 20, 2022
Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF), a Pan-African fund launched via…
July 20, 2022
IFC, a global development organization, has announced an investment in Wave…
July 20, 2022
Huawei South Africa has announced its $5.8 million (R100-million) Cloud Spark…
July 13, 2022
Senegalese-US fintech Wave has secured a €90 million syndicated loan from the…
July 13, 2022
South African fintech startup Sava has announced a US$1.8 million pre-seed…
July 5, 2022
Africa-focused VC firm TLcom Capital has expanded its deal flow generation into…
July 5, 2022
Nigerian at-home lab testing startup HealthTracka has raised US$1.5 million…
June 29, 2022
Kenyan fintech startup Kyanda, a money transfer app that aims to help users…
June 29, 2022
GetEquity, a fundraising and venture portfolio management company that…
June 29, 2022
Nigerian startup Stranerd has launched a peer-to-peer learning platform where…
January 4, 2022
Nigerian e-health start-up Field Intelligence, which is digitising the…
January 4, 2022
Nigerian start-up Get It Done Now, a mobile fintech e-commerce platform…
January 4, 2022
South African car subscription startup Planet42 has raised US$30 million in…
December 21, 2021
Kenyan startup Wowzi has raised a total of US$3.2 million across pre-seed and…
December 21, 2021
Nigeria’s Metro Africa Xpress (MAX), a vehicle subscription platform for…
December 21, 2021
Nigerian ed-tech startup uLesson has secured US$15 million in Series B funding…
December 14, 2021
Pan-African venture capital firm 4DX Ventures has completed the final close…
December 14, 2022
Somalian e-health startup ogow health is improving care paths, access to patient…
December 14, 2021