Chekkit
Funding Investment Venture Capital

Chekkit Closes $500k Pre-seed Round To Save More Lives and Secure The Pharmaceutical & FMCG Industries

Chekkit, Nigerian Anti-counterfeiting Solution, has closed a $500,000 pre-seed investment from Launch Africa, Japan Strategic Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, and two syndicate groups

FirstCheck Africa
Funding Investment Venture Capital Women

Meet the Four Female-led African Startups That Just Received Investment From FirstCheck Africa

Six months ago, Eloho Omame, the Managing Director of Endeavor Nigeria and Odunayo Eweniyi, the Co-founder/Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest launched FirstCheck

Circle of Corporate Innovators
Entrepreneurship Funding Venture Capital

Access, Ecobank, and 3 Other Corporates Join Catalyst Fund Circle of Corporate Innovators

Catalyst Fund, managed by BFA Global, today formally announced its Circle of Corporate Innovators, with its first members, Fidelity Bank, Ecobank,

Flutterwave
Fintech News Payment

Flutterwave Named in First-ever List of TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the World

Flutterwave, the billion-dollar Nigerian fintech company, has been recognised as a Pioneer in the first-ever list of the TIME100 most

Calendly
Interview

How Tope Awotona Fought Through Life’s Challenges to Build a $60m Startup in The US

Babatope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly- a simple and beautiful scheduling tool that helps you schedule meetings

Covid-19
Ecommerce Health

Covid-19 Second wave: Online Shopping Still Among Measures to Limit Spread — Jumia CEO

As authorities put measures in place to prevent rapid spread of covid-19 in the light of the second wave of

Black Friday
Ecommerce Jumia

Jumia Processed Over 4 Milion Orders During Black Friday

Black Friday, the biggest sales event of the year, has come and gone. In the aftermath, global sale platforms, as

Netflix
Appointment Internet Video Streaming

Zimbabwean Billionaire, Strive Masiyiwa Appointed to Netflix Board of Directors

Netflix has announced the appointment of Zimbabwean billionaire, Strive Masiyiwa to its board. Strive is the Chairman and founder of

Awards Banking Women

Bola Adesola, Senior Vice-Chairman, Africa, Standard Chartered Bank Honoured in EMEA Diversity Awards

Eight businesswomen holding prominent executive roles in leading companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) have been named

Jumia
Business Ecommerce Jumia

Black Friday and Jumia’s Exciting Deals For Customers

There’s hardly any period that gets customers in a buying mood than the popular Black Friday sales. To get a