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Ajua Acquires Competitor Rate My Service (RMS) in a Consolidation Move

Ajua, a Customer Experience (CX) platform has acquired Rate My Service (RMS), a Kenyan Customer and Employee Experience platform, in a consolidation move. The terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition deepens Ajua's expertise, reinforcing its local...

Business

Ajua Appoints Telkom Kenya’s Director of Customer Experience to Drive Customer-Centric Innovation Across Africa

Ajua, a customer experience (CX) intelligence platform, has appointed Claire Munene as its new Chief Experience Officer (CXO). Claire rejoins Ajua from Telkom Kenya, where she served as Director of Customer Experience, to lead the company’s mission of empowering African businesses to...

Startups

Ajua, formerly mSurvey acquires Kenya’s WayaWaya for borderless banking & payments across apps

Ajua, formerly mSurvey has acquired WayaWaya, a Nairobi-based AI and Machine Learning startup behind Janja, a platform that enables borderless banking and payments across apps and social media platforms. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. WayaWaya founder...

Tech

Ajua, formerly mSurvey, Partners MTN Nigeria to Launch Customer Management Platform to Boost Growth of MSMEs

Kenyan-based start-up Ajua has partnered with MTN Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest providers of communications services, connecting over 76.5 million people in communities across Nigeria, to resolve challenges currently being faced by over 40 million SME businesses in Nigeria....

People

Ajua, formerly mSurvey, hires Huduma Kenya’s Martin Mirero as CTO to launch its Customer Experience platform across Africa

Ajua, formerly mSurvey, has hired Martin Mirero as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the development of Ajua’s advanced technologies and drive the infrastructure growth of the company. Martin will lead the engineering team and manage the scaling agenda...

Startups

TLcom Announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2024

TLcom Capital, one of Africa's largest venture capital firms, has officially announced its 6th edition of the Africa Tech Female Founder Summit, which will be held on Tuesday 15th October 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit - Africa's...

Startups

Kenya to host second Angel Fair Africa

Eric Osiakwan Since Nairobi, Kenya was officially announced as host city for the 11th Angel Fair Africa (AFA@11), scheduled for November 7-8, 2024, some entrepreneurs and investors from neighboring African countries have wondered why and how Nairobi earned the right...

Tech

Kenya’s Digital Protests Yields Cabinet Reshuffles by President William Ruto

Following weeks of widespread youth-led protests across Kenya, President William Ruto has taken decisive action by dismissing nearly every member of his cabinet yesterday, signaling a significant political shift in the administration. Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has been retained...

Obituaries

Kenyan Agritech Startup iProcure Goes Under Administration After Raising Over $17m

Launched in 2013, with $17.2 million in debt and equity funding, iProcure, which provides an agricultural supply chain platform in rural Africa, has been put under administration over unpaid debts. Global advisory consulting firm KPMG has been appointed administrator and...

Startups

TLcom raises $154 million to expand its mandate beyond Sub-Saharan Africa to Egypt

TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has raised $154 million from the final close of TIDE Africa Fund II, its second fund for technology in Africa, making it Africa’s largest Seed and Series A investor. The $154 million was...

Startups

Renew Capital Angels invests in Tappi to Expand Digital Marketing Solutions for African SMEs

Renew Capital Angels, an Africa-focused impact investment firm that backs innovative companies with high-growth potential has invested in Tapii, a digital marketing startup to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) establish their online presence. Tapii offers innovative end-to-end...

Startups

TLcom Announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2023

TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has announced its fifth annual Africa Tech Female Founder Summit set to hold on Tuesday 14th November 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. The headline session will feature a fireside conversation with Julia Collins,...

Startups

Safaricom forms two new subsidiaries to invest in tech startups in Kenya

Safaricom is set to form two new subsidiaries, one dedicated to investing in seed-stage and another on growth-stage start-ups, after the telco got approval from it shareholders at its 15th Annual General Meeting (AGM). Like Spark Fund, one firm will...

Startups

Google Announces a Ksh 480 Million Fund to Help African Entrepreneurs Grow

Kenyan companies often face challenges when it comes to providing international solutions that will be appealing to investors. According to Charles Murito, the head of government affairs and public policy at Google, governments in Africa must provide the infrastructure and...

Startups

TLcom Capital appoints FirstCheck Africa’s Eloho Omame to reach more pre-seed startups with its $150mn pan-African tech fund

TLcom, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has appointed Eloho Omame as a Partner, bolstering its capabilities as it ramps up deployment of TIDE Africa Fund II, its new $150mn pan-African tech fund. As well as focusing on the firm’s...

Startups

TLcom secures first close of $150M Pan-African Tech Fund to back 20 African startups.

TLcom, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has announced a $70 million first close for its $150 million Africa-focused tech fund, solidifying the investor's position as the continent's largest independent VC firm. With a first close in line with the total size...

social media

Diana Marua’s New Song Breaks Record As She Clocks Over 1 Million Views On YouTube

Upcoming artist, Diana Marua has been breaking the internet with her new talent in music. Who knew Bahati's wife had a talent as a rapper? a lot of people have been wondering what she does for a living and we guess we now know.

Startups

TLcom to virtually hold its 3rd Africa Tech Female Founder Summit

TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, will on Wednesday 13th October 2021 virtually hold the 2021 Africa Tech Female Founder Summit headlined by Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of Andela. Themed "Board and C-Suite Matters...

Guides

Customer Experience In Microfinance Industry Key To Growth Of Africa’s Economy

Microfinance institutions have played a vital role in the growth of Africa’s economy over the past several years by making financial inclusion easier to achieve. This growth has notably occurred within Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the...

social media

Data Reveals That Kenya Has The Highest Percentage Of Monthly WhatsApp Users

According to the Global Web Index's 2020 Social Media User Trends Report, a whopping 97% of internet users in Kenya use WhatsApp every month

Money

COVID-19 Has Worsened Harassment and Data Privacy Breaches-Report

Ajua’s Quarter 1 2021 Customer Loyalty Industry Benchmark Report has revealed that despite high interest rates, the allure of quick cash has made mobile money lenders a preferred credit facility for many Kenyans who still find themselves unable...

Startups

Mergers and Acquisitions in African Fintech

By Eric M K Osiakwan On 1st of April, as I was publishing my Uniconization of African Fintech piece, Mastercard was busy announcing their $100 million investment into Airtel Money (Airtel Africa’s mobile money subsidiary) to acquire a minority position...

Android

Free Apps for Android And iOS: Completly Free

Most premium apps offer a lot of functionalities as compared to applications that are availed for free. However, accessing these premium Apps can be Costly and to make matters worse they are only on for a limited duration. These free...

Startups

Eldohub changes the tech space in Kenya.

Eldohub is based in Eldoret, Kenya. There has been a partnership with and Thunderbird School of Global Management and with support from the UK Kenya Tech. They have launched a Digital Apprenticeship Programme .Tech professionals are targeted in this...

Tech

Mobile phones generating demand for new digital healthcare services-CarePay

In a recent report released by CarePay Kenya and Ajua mobiles are increasingly being used to access care and are generating demand for new digital healthcare services. The report on Mobile Health Transformation in Kenya looks at how Kenyans...

Funding

Safaricom announces the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund

Kenyan telco giant, Safaricom, has announced the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund, which was established to support late-seed and early growth stage companies in Kenya. In this second edition, Safaricom has pumped in 5 million dollars, increasing the...

Startups

Okra, Africa’s API fintech “super-connector” raises $1m from TLcom Capital

Okra, Africa’s first API fintech “super-connector” has raised $1m from TLcom Capital in pre-seed fundraise to build the infrastructure for Africa’s next wave of fintech innovation. Okra says it will use the funds to scale its team and operations...

Business

TLcom Has Closed a $71M Deal For It’s Sub Saharan Africa Focused Tide Fund

TLcom, the Africa-focused Venture Capital firm has today secured an additional $31M for its TIDE Africa Fund. The deal brings its Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)-focused fund to $71milion. TIDE Africa is one of the active funds operating in Sub Saharan...

Business

OPay, Opera’s payments platform launches OBus in Nigeria & it’s not done yet

Opera's OPay, a payment and financial inclusion startup has launched OBus, a shuttle booking service in Nigeria to take on Swvl, Careem Bus, Little Bus among others according to people familiar with the matter. The firm is not stopping there,...

Startups

Wutiko named best startup at Seedstars world Dakar

Wutiko, a professional network for Africa that lets anyone find jobs and jobseekers with their innovative machine learning technology, is Seedstars World winner in Dakar Senegal. Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes...

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