Entrepreneurship Fintech Startup

Nigeria’s Fintech, CowryWise Accepted into YCombinator Summer 2018

Nigeria fintech startup, CowryWise, has been accepted into YCombinator Summer 2018 Batch. Commenting on the news, Razaq Ahmed, the CEO

Funding Investment Venture Capital

Chowdeck Secures $2.5m Seed Funding to Optimise on-demand food Delivery in Nigeria

Chowdeck, a Nigerian on-demand delivery service, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to optimise its operations and support expansion

Remedial Health
Funding Investment Venture Capital

Remedial Health Raises $12m to Deliver Financial Services For Neighbourhood Pharmacies and Drive Deeper Growth in Nigeria

Remedial Health, a healthtech startup that develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain more efficient, has secured $12 million

Thrive Agric
AgricTech Awards

Nigeria’s Thrive Agric Named Global Winner of the Visa Everywhere Initiative 2022

Thrive Agric, a fintech providing smallholder farmers access to finance, insights and distribution, has been named the 2022 winner of

Startup

Nigeria’s Kudi Changes Name to Nomba

Kudi, an African fintech startup, has announced that it is changing its name to Nomba as it transitions into an

Dojah
Accelerator

Nigeria’s Dojah Joins YC W22 Cohort on The Back of pan-African Expansion

Dojah, a Nigerian digital onboarding and KYC startup, has become the latest startup to join Silicon Valley accelerator—Y Combinator winter

Lemonade Finance
Funding Money Transfer Payment Venture Capital

Lemonade Finance Closes $725k Pre-seed Funding to Disrupt Cross-border Financial Services

Lemonade Finance, a startup that allows Africans abroad to send and receive money from home, has raised US$725,000 in pre-seed

GreenHouse
Accelerator Entrepreneurship Fintech

8 African Startups Selected For GreenHouse Lab 2021 Fintech Accelerator

GreenHouse Lab (GHL), the flagship accelerator program by GreenHouse Capital (GHC), has announced the eight innovative African startups that have

MarketForce
Funding Investment Retail Startup Venture Capital

Kenyan Retail Distribution Startup, MarketForce Raises $2m Pre-series A Round

MarketForce, the Kenyan-based end-to-end retail distribution platform for consumer brands in Africa, has raised a $2 million pre-Series A round from

Flextock
Funding Investment Logistics Venture Capital

Fresh Out of Y Combinator, Egyptian Startup Flextock Secures $3.25m

Flextock, an Egyptian on-demand logistics platform, has raised $3.25 million just two months after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2021