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Moniepoint Opens Applications For 4th Edition of Women in Tech Programme to Celebrate IWD

Mohammed Mane 03/10/2024

Moroccan Fintech Startup, tookeez Raises $1.5m to Reshape Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

Mohammed Mane 03/07/2024

MDaaS Global Secures $3M to Transform Healthcare Access Across Nigeria

Mohammed Mane 03/06/2024

Adenia Partners Acquires The Courier Guy to Enhance Last-mile Delivery Services in South Africa

Musa Suleiman 03/05/2024

Whogohost Rebrands as GO54

Ester Adams 03/04/2024

TLcom Closes Africa’s Largest Early-Stage VC Fund at $154 Million

By Ester Adams / 04/23/2024

TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has announced the final close of TIDE Africa Fund II, its second fund for...

TLcom Closes Africa’s Largest Early-Stage VC Fund at $154 Million

Goodwell Invests in OmniRetail to Fuell Opportunities for Informal Retailers Across Africa

By Adebayo Trevor / 04/17/2024

Goodwell Investments, an impact investor focused on innovative businesses in emerging markets, has announced its recent investment in OmniRetail – a B2B...

Goodwell Invests in OmniRetail to Fuell Opportunities for Informal Retailers Across Africa

SME Growth Lab Africa Announces Application for COHORT 2 of Its 2024 Digital Accelerator Program

By Oluwasegun / 04/17/2024

Applications are open for the second cohort of the 2024 Digital Accelerator Program brought to you by SME Growth Lab...

SME Growth Lab Africa Announces Application for COHORT 2 of Its 2024 Digital Accelerator Program

Pula Closes $20m Series B Funding Round to Finance Smallholder Farmers Across Africa

By Adebayo Trevor / 04/15/2024

Pula, an agricultural insurance and technology company, has closed a USD 20 million series B fundraising round that will help...

Pula Closes $20m Series B Funding Round to Finance Smallholder Farmers Across Africa

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) Closes its first fund at $60m

By Mohammed Mane / 04/09/2024

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) has announced that it has closed its first fund at $60 million. Key institutional investors in...

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) Closes its first fund at $60m

Remedial Health Launches New App with Digital POS and Barcode Scanner

By Oluwasegun / 04/08/2024

Remedial Health, a health tech startup that develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain more efficient, has unveiled an...

Remedial Health Launches New App with Digital POS and Barcode Scanner

Ghanaian Fintech Company, Zeepay Secures Equity to Support its Ongoing Expansion

By Musa Suleiman / 04/05/2024

Zeepay, the Ghanaian fintech company, has announced the completion of an equity investment by pan-African investment firms Africa50, Oikocredit, Injaro,...

Ghanaian Fintech Company, Zeepay Secures Equity to Support its Ongoing Expansion

Baobab Network Acquires Reflector Marketing

By Ester Adams / 04/02/2024

Baobab Network, an early-stage investor that backs startups across Africa, has announced the acquisition of Reflector Marketing, a strategy and branding...

Baobab Network Acquires Reflector Marketing

BURN Secures Over USD 12 Million Investment to Expand Clean Cooking Across Africa

By Musa Suleiman / 04/02/2024

BURN Manufacturing, the clean cookstove manufacturer, distributor, and carbon project developer, has announced completion of a follow-on-carbon project investment from...

BURN Secures Over USD 12 Million Investment to Expand Clean Cooking Across Africa

BasiGo Secures $3m from CFAO For Scale-up

By Adebayo Trevor / 03/31/2024

BasiGo, an electric bus company, has secured $3 million in equity funding from the CFAO Group. This investment aims to...

BasiGo Secures $3m from CFAO For Scale-up

SME Growth Lab Africa Announces Application for COHORT 2 of Its 2024 Digital Accelerator Program

Oluwasegun 04/17/2024

TLcom Closes Africa’s Largest Early-Stage VC Fund at $154 Million

Ester Adams 04/23/2024

Goodwell Invests in OmniRetail to Fuell Opportunities for Informal Retailers Across Africa

Adebayo Trevor 04/17/2024

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TLcom Closes Africa’s Largest Early-Stage VC Fund at $154 Million

Ester Adams 04/23/2024

Goodwell Invests in OmniRetail to Fuell Opportunities for Informal Retailers Across Africa

Adebayo Trevor 04/17/2024

Pula Closes $20m Series B Funding Round to Finance Smallholder Farmers Across Africa

Adebayo Trevor 04/15/2024

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) Closes its first fund at $60m

Mohammed Mane 04/09/2024

Baobab Network Acquires Reflector Marketing

Ester Adams 04/02/2024

Funding

Almouneer, an Egyptian Healthtech Startup, Secures $3.6m Funding

Ester Adams 11/02/2023

Fintech

MFS Africa Announces Rebrand to Onafriq

Mohammed Mane 11/02/2023

AgricTech

BII Commits $26.5m to AFEX to Address Food Security in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda

Musa Suleiman 11/01/2023

Cryptocurrency

DLM Trust Terminates Appointment as Escrow Trustee With Patricia

Mohammed Mane 10/26/2023

Technology

Circadian Gets €1.25m to Boost Energy Transition for Telecom Towers in Frontier Markets

Musa Suleiman 10/25/2023

Clean Energy

Husk Power Secures $100m in Equity and Debt Power Growth of Community Solar Minigrids in Africa

Ester Adams 10/25/2023

Fintech

COVA AFRICA Named Winner of Sixth Edition of CATAPULT: Inclusion Africa – Togo Edition!

Adebayo Trevor 10/24/2023

Competition

Here Are Winners of Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East

Musa Suleiman 10/18/2023

News

South Africa’s Venture Capital Firm Knife Capital Leads Investment in Outsized

Mohammed Mane 10/18/2023

Banking

Ukheshe and Komuniti SA Partner to Make Digital Banking Services More Accessible

Adebayo Trevor 10/18/2023

Funding

LeapFrog Investments Plans to Hold Final Close of its $1bn Fund in Feb 2024

Oluwasegun 10/17/2023

Ecommerce

Amazon to Launch Amazon.co.za in South Africa in 2024

Mohammed Mane 10/17/2023

Technology

Andela Launches An Integrated, End-to-End Platform to Bolster Global Remote Tech Hiring

Adebayo Trevor 10/16/2023

Partnership

Microsoft Collaborate With Flutterwave to Power Payment Innovation in Africa

Ester Adams 10/13/2023

SMEs

SME Growth LAB Partners With Bujeti to Empower African SMEs with N500k Funding

Ester Adams 10/13/2023

Africa

Sony Launches Sony Innovation Fund: Africa

Musa Suleiman 10/12/2023

News

Amenli Raises $1m Funding to Launch New Products and For Expansion

Musa Suleiman 10/10/2023

Fintech

Scan to Pay Powered by Ukheshe – More Than Just Another Way to Pay

Adebayo Trevor 10/10/2023

Competition

MEST Africa Challenge Startup Pitch Competition Deadline Extended

Oluwasegun 10/09/2023

Banking

IRETI, a Healthtech Startup, Named Winner of Wema Bank Hackaholics 4.0

Musa Suleiman 10/09/2023

Fintech

Koree, a Cameroonian Fintech Emerges as Winner of the 2023 Ecobank Fintech Challenge

Mohammed Mane 10/09/2023

Venture Capital

Baobab Network to Invest In 1000 African Tech Companies

Ester Adams 10/09/2023

Women

TLcom Announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2023

Ester Adams 10/06/2023

Artificial Intelligence

Intella, an Egyptian Deeptech Startup Raises $3.4 Million Pre-series A Round

Ester Adams 10/04/2023

Five Things To Do Before Selling Your Smartphone
Whether you are using an Android or iOS device, you may someday decide that you have enough of the phone
Taxify Joins #$1Billion Gang As It Secures $175M Investment From Daimler
Mercedes-Benz-owner Daimler has taken a stake in Taxify in a funding round that values the ride-booking group at more than
Meet The 10 Startups That Are Disrupting Agriculture In Africa
Gone are the days when you have to physically go to the farm before you can call yourself a farmer.
Piggybank.ng Secures $1.1M Capital Led by LeadPath
Funds has always been a huge problem when starting a business. However, you a business can only attract the attention
Jumia Nigeria to Reward Football Fans for Supporting the Super Eagles
Nigeria’s no.1 online shopping platform, Jumia has concluded plans to launch a series of exciting activities around the 2018 FIFA World
Scramble For African Startups By Venture Capitalists: Good or Bad?
Like the scramble for Africa that saw European powers invading, occupying and colonizing African territories without their consent, venture capitalists seem to
Nigeria’s Publiseer Selected For Startup Istanbul Challenge 2018
This year seem to be going well for Nigeria’s digital publishing startup, Publiseer. It recently declared a profit of 3
GitHub Is Now Own By Microsoft As Later Buys Former For $7.5B
Microsoft has acquired code sharing website, GitHub, for $7.5 billion. The all-stock deal is expected to be sealed by the end of
Biggest Announcements From Apple’s WWDC 2018
Apple’s big WWDC 2018 keynote is a wrap! Millions of Apple fans around the world tuned in to Apple’s live
Apply For The AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2018
AppsAfrica has opened application for the 2018 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards set to be held on 12 November in Cape Town. Applications close 7

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