Anzisha Prize
Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Innovation Startup

Apply For The Anzisha Prize For Young African Entrepreneurs to Win US$100k

The Anzisha Prize Program which is a partnership between African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation has just launched the call

Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Health Innovation Startup Technology

22-Year Old Melissa Bime Named Winner at the 2018 Anzisha Prize Awards

The Mastercard Foundation and African Leadership Academy are thrilled to announce that 22-year-old healthcare entrepreneur Melissa Bime has won the US$25,000 Grand Prize

Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship

15 Winners Emerge in the 2018 Resolution Social Venture Challenge 

Fifteen teams comprising 32 African social entrepreneurs have been selected as winners of the 2018 Resolution Social Venture Challenge. The

MITIIC
Africa Awards Entrepreneurship Funding Innovation Startup Technology

Meet the Startups Repping Africa at the 2018 MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge

The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy has announced the four regional winners for their 2018 global economic prize, the MIT

Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Startup Technology Venture Capital

Nigeria’s RecyclePoints Gets $30k at the 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation as SA’s Wala Wins Grand Prize

Nigeria’s RecyclePoints has won $30k at the 2018 Zambezi Prize for innovation in financial inclusion while South Africa’s Wala was

Entrepreneurship Fintech Startup Technology

RecyclePoints is the only Nigerian Startup that Made the Finals of the 2018 Zambezi Prize

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation,  announced the finalists

COVA AFRICA
Fintech

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

From 16 to 20 October 2023, representatives of ten African fintechs traveled to Togo, in Lomé, to take part in the

Ukheshe
Banking Fintech Partnership

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

Komuniti in collaboration with banking as a service (BaaS) and embedded finance enabler, Ukheshe is bringing digital banking to more people in South

News

Payday Secures $3M Seed Round to Power the Future of Work for Africa

Payday, an African neobank issuing global accounts to Africans, has raised a $3M seed round led by Moniepoint Inc. The

Africa’s Business Heroes
Africa Business Funding Investment Transport Venture Capital

MAX.ng Raises $7m to Scale Moto-taxi Transportation in Africa

MAX.ng, the pioneering Nigerian mobility startup, announced today that it has raised $7 million from an elite group of strategic