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Tugende
Funding Investment Venture Capital

Tugende Secures $3.6M Investment to Help Meet Intense Demand For Productive Asset Finance

Tugende, a technology-enabled asset finance company, in East Africa has closed $3.6M in additional equity financing.  The round was led

Bolt
Business Ride-hailing

Bolt Launches Food Delivery Services in Kenya

Bolt has launched its food delivery service in Nairobi, Kenya. Bolt Food will offer users access to a wide variety

MTN Nigeria
MTN Telecom

First Set of MTN Donation of 1.4 Million Doses of Vaccines Received by Nigeria

The Nigerian government has taken delivery of the first set of 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of a total of

Funding

CardinalStone Capital Advisers Closes Maiden Private Equity Fund at $64m, Makes First Fund Investments

CardinalStone Capital Advisers (CCA), a Lagos-based private equity fund manager, has announced the final close of its maiden private equity

Panasonic
Press Release Technology

Panasonic Begins Licensing IP Core for Semiconductors Complying with IEEE 1901–2020 International Standard

Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has begun licensing the HD PLCTM 4 IP core required for the design of

Fintech Partnership Payment

Mastercard Partners With Hellopay to Bring Contactless Payments to South Africa’s Informal Economy

Hellopay, South African payments facilitator and the financial services arm of the Hello Group, and Mastercard today announced a partnership

Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Startup Venture Capital

Microtraction Announces Undisclosed Investment in Raise

Microtraction, the Nigerian-based investment fund, has announced an undisclosed investment in Raise, the Africa-focused fundraising platform. Raise, a blockchain-based digital

Havaic
Funding Venture Capital

HAVAÍC Universum Core African Fund Achieves its Second Close

Following a successful 2020 comprising eight new investments and three international exits, African focused venture capital (VC) investor HAVAÍC has

9mobile
9Mobile Telecom

9mobile Begins Free NIN Enrollment At Experience Centres

9mobile has begun NIN enrollment in select Experience Centres across the country to enable its customers to physically register for

Anzisha Prize
Entrepreneurship

Apply: 2021 Anzisha Prize For Young African Entrepreneurs

The Anzisha Prize has launched the 2021 call for young entrepreneurs between, 15 and 22. Applications for the latest cohort