Safaricom
Entrepreneurship Startup Telecom

Apply: Safaricom Spark Fund to Support Kenyan Tech Startups

Safaricom Spark Fund is inviting early growth stage and late seed Kenyan tech startups to apply for investment and funding.

MFS Africa
Money Transfer Partnership Payment

MFS Africa and MoneyGram Partner to Ease Cross-border P2P Payments in Africa

MFS Africa, the pan-African cross-border payments firm, has announced a partnership with MoneyGram. The partnership will enable MoneyGram to leverage MFS

WorldRemit
Acquisition Money Transfer Payment

WorldRemit to Acquire Africa-focused Remittance Firm Sendwave in a Deal Worth Over $500m

WorldRemit, a digital, global cross-border payments company has announced that it has agreed to acquire Sendwave, a rapidly growing African-focused, app-based remittance company

CDC Group
News Technology

Liquid Telecom Becomes Liquid Intelligent Technologies

Liquid Telecom has announced that it has become Liquid Intelligent Technologies thereby unveiling a new positioning and identity. Following this

Kodak
Brands Business Technology

Kodak Shares Soar After Getting $765m Loan to Make Ingredients For Generic Drugs

The shares of Kodak soared after news broke that the American technology company, has secured a $765 million loan to

DPO Group
Acquisition Fintech Payment

DPO Group, a Pan-African Payment Firm to be Acquired by Network International

Direct Pay Online Group (DPO), one of the leading, high-growth online commerce platforms in Africa operating across 19 countries, has

Dara Owoyemi
Appointment Venture Capital

Dara Owoyemi Appointed Interim AVCA CEO

Dara Owoyemi has been appointed the interim CEO by the Board of Directors of the African Private Equity and Venture

Google
Africa Technology

‘Think with Google’ Launches in Sub-Saharan Africa

Google has announced that it has launched ‘Think with Google‘ in Sub-Saharan African to help marketers on the continent get

TradeDepot
Ecommerce Funding Investment SMEs

TradeDepot Secures Additional $10M to Transform Informal Retail Supply Chain in Nigeria

TradeDepot, the B2B eCommerce platform for consumer goods in Africa, has raised a further $10 million in a pre-Series B

LASG
Agro-tech Social Entrepreneurship

LASG to train 450 entrepreneurs in coconut’s waste-to-wealth initiative

The Lagos State Government (LASG) says it will train no fewer than 450 young entrepreneurs on the use of coconut