WorldCover
Africa Agro-tech Business Entrepreneurship Funding Insurtech Investment Startup Technology Venture Capital

WorldCover Secures $6M in Series A Funding Led by MS&AD Ventures

WorldCover, a crop insurance startup that provides climate and weather linked insurance products has raised USD$6 million Series A funding

Jumia
Africa Business Ecommerce Legal

Jumia to Bring Forward the Date Announcing Q1 Report

Jumia Technologies has announced that it will release its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, before the U.S.

SafeBoda
Africa Business Investment Transport

Ugandan-based Ride-hailing Firm SafeBoda Raises Undisclosed Series B Investment

SafeBoda, Uganda-based ride-hailing firm, has raised an undisclosed Series B funding round from Indonesia’s ride-hailing firm GOJEK and Allianz X,

Jumia's food
Business Ecommerce Press Release

“Jumia & Pizza Hut Partnership To Boost Operational Performance and Last Mile  Delivery”

The Managing Director of Jumia’s food marketplace, Guy Futi has announced an on-demand pizza delivery partnership between Jumia’s food marketplace

Jumia
Business Ecommerce Telecom

MTN Plans to Sell Half of its Shares in Jumia After Expiration of Lock-in Period

MTN Group Ltd. plans to sell at least half of its 19% ($655 million) interest in Africa Tech startup, Jumia,

WeSabi
Business Entrepreneurship Event Funding Investment SMEs Startup Technology

Murtala Sani of WeSabi Wins N12m at ARM’s DAAYTA

Murtala Sani, the CEO of WeSabi, a tech startup that helps solve the challenge of getting artisans to help fix

WeSabi
Business Entrepreneurship Interview Leadership Startup Technology

Lack of Funds Limit Expansion of Startups-WeSabi CEO

Murtala Sani is the co-Founder of WeSabi, a tech startup that helps solve the challenge of getting artisans to help

WifiCall
Africa Apps Business Internet Technology

Nigerian Internet Provider, Tizeti Set to Take on WhatsApp As it Unveils WifiCall.ng

Tizeti, a Nigerian internet service provider has unveiled WifiCall.ng, an internet voice calling platform targeted at individuals and businesses. WifiCall

PalmPay
Africa Apps Business Fintech

PalmPay to Launch Mobile App as Part of Visa Partnership

PalmPlay, a new player in Africa’s Fintech industry recently announced that it is partnering with Visa, the global payments technology

Competition
Business Technology

How to Use Technology to Pull Ahead of Your Competition

Competition everywhere is in every business no matter what you do or how you do it. This is because the