Casava
Insurtech Venture Capital

Casava Closes $4m Pre-seed Funding to Provide Microinsurance For Nigerians

Casava, Nigeria’s first 100% digital insurance company, has secured $4 million in pre-seed funding to provide affordable and accessible insurance

Brimore
Ecommerce Funding Investment Venture Capital

Egyptian Social Commerce Startup, Brimore Closes $25m Series A Round

Brimore, an Egyptian social commerce startup, has secured a $25 million Series A round co-led by International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Funding Investment Venture Capital

SA Financial Services Distributor, CompariSure Raises $980k Pre-Series A Funding

Comparisure, a South African financial services distributor, has raised $980, 000 (R15-million) led by HAVAÍC with participation from 4Di Capital.

ExpandCart
Ecommerce Funding Investment Venture Capital

Egyptian eCommerce Startup ExpandCart Secures $2.7m Led by Betatron Venture Group

ExpandCart, an Egyptian e-commerce startup, has secured $2.7 million in a Pre-Series B bridge round of financing, led by Hong-Kong

TikTok
Messaging Social Media TikTok

TikTok Displaces Google to Become The Most Visited Site in 2021

TikTok has been declared the most visited website in 2021 after displace tech giant, Google. This is according to the 2021 Cloudflare

Funding Investment

Nigeria’s SendChamp Secures $100k Angel Round

SendChamp, the messaging platform for businesses and developers in Africa, has announced that it has raised a $100,000 to bridge

Ecommerce

Top B2B Ecommerce Marketplaces Digitising Informal Trade in Nigeria

SMEs and Mom and Pop stores in Nigeria have basically operated offline over the years. They figuratively ran away from

WABI
Ecommerce Interview

How Wabi is Digitising Traditional Trade Channels in Nigeria

Omolara Adagunodo is the Country Manager of Wabi Nigeria. Wabi is coined from a Japanese concept Wabi-Sabi which is a

Meta
Facebook Meta Social Media

Facebook Changes Parent Company Name to Meta

Facebook has changed its parent company name to Meta. This was announced by Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2021. Meta according

Catalyst Fund
Accelerator Funding Startup

Four Ghanaian Startups Receive Funding and Acceleration Support Through Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator program

The Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator welcomed four Ghanaian digital commerce companies, OZÉ, Shopa, Swoove, and Tendo,  as the