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Agri-tech firm Twiga Foods has defended its decision to downsize its workforce. The company says it’s a change in the…

Kendi Ntwiga , a former Country Leader at Microsoft Kenya has been appointed as the Global Head of Misrepresentation at Meta…

Twiga Foods, a Kenyan B2B E-Commerce startup, has launched a new subsidiary focusing on modern and commercial farming. Twiga Fresh…

Kenya’s Tanda, a fintech company has partnered with Twiga Foods to enable over 140,000 Twiga vendors become one stop shop…

Twiga, a Kenyan agritech startup, has raised $50 million in a Series C round to expand its operations in East…

Kenya’s B2B food distribution platform Twiga Foods, which aims to modernize Africa’s Urban based informal retail through technology, has appointed a…

Twiga Foods has signed a distribution deal with Jumia to deliver fresh and processed food to the homes of consumers…

World Bank-backed International Financial Corporation (IFC) has launched a $225 million platform to strengthen venture capital ecosystems in Africa, the…

“The Future of Tech is female” written by Douglas Branson in 2018 saw women at the forefront of global technology. …

 Cape Town-headquartered venture capital (VC) firm HAVAÍC has completed its third investment in Kenyan FinTech Tanda. The investment from the…

 Google has announced its intent to establish a new Google Cloud region in South Africa – its  first on the continent.…

Kenyan- based embedded finance Fintech Pezesha has raised a pre-series A investment of $11 Million to grow its embedded finance platform. The…

Copia Global, the B2C e-commerce platform serving rural folks in East Africa has unveiled a new manufacturing unit that will…

TLcom, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has appointed Eloho Omame as a Partner, bolstering its capabilities as it ramps up…

 IQ Logistica ,an agritech start-up based in South Africa has launched a farming mobile app, that will allow farmers to…

Sokowatch, the informal retail supply chain startup has closed a $125 million Series B equity round, officially launched in Abidjan,…

Equity Group, in partnership with Microsoft, has launched a virtual hackathon open to students from The University of Nairobi and…

​​Smile Identity, the identity verification provider, has launched Document Verification, its new product set to enable businesses to accept and…

TLcom, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has announced  a $70 million first close for its $150 million Africa-focused tech fund, solidifying…

TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, will on Wednesday 13th October 2021 virtually hold the 2021 Africa Tech Female…

Google’s Africa Investment Fund plans to invest up to $50 million in African early and growth-stage startups, ramping up efforts…

Pezesha, a Kenyan fintech startup that is building scalable lending infrastructure for SMEs and institutions, has closed a seven-figure seed…

Smile Identity has raised $7 million in Series A funding to make it easy for Africans to prove their identity…

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a remarkable increase in the use of digital technologies including online learning to virtual…

A program in Nairobi has begun to teach over 50000 Micro Small Enterprise (MSE) owners with appropriate digital skills by…

The covid-19 pandemic has immeasurably disrupted the economy in the last year including galvanizing never seen before industry-leading technology innovations.…

 Future Ni Digital an initiative to equip over 50,000 owners of Micro Small Enterprises (MSEs) with the relevant digital skills…

Citibank N.A Kenya has established a Supply Chain Finance Programme in support of women-owned businesses. The bank’s Chief Executive Officer,…

By Francis Wainaina, SEACOM East Africa Senior Product Manager Despite being ranked as a leader in ecommerce and digital services,…