LeapFrog Investments has raised $700m in its largest-ever private equity fund by a dedicated impact fund manager, surging past its $600m target. The new is expected to reach 700 million ...
LeapFrog Investments has acquired a KSh 1.68b ($US18.7m) majority stake in Resolution Insurance, though its holding company, Resolution Health East Africa Limited in a move that will help LeapFrog tap ...
Leapfrog Ventures is set to invest between $30,00 and $150,000 into seed stage and early stage startups in Kenya and will hold a pitch competition later this month in Nairobi ...
Talent development is the single greatest challenge most firms in emerging markets face. To help solve these problems, LeapFrog Investments has launched the LeapFrog Talent Accelerator (LTA), the private equity industry’s ...
WorldRemit has raised $175 million in a Series D funding round led by returning investors, TCV, Accel and Leapfrog Investments to enter into the mobile payments space. WorldRemit will use this ...
JUMO has raised a US$12.5 million investment from Odey Asset Management just three months after it raised funding from Goldman Sachs. In addition, James Hanbury, Partner at Odey Asset Management, ...
Uber has partnered with JUMO, a fintech firm to launch JUMO Drive, a unique digital vehicle finance product to increase its fleet of cars in Kenya and across Africa. After ...
JUMO, a South African fintech platform has closed an equity funding round of USD$52 million led by Goldman Sachs to further its growth and expansion into new markets. JUMO has offices ...
Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has raised $40m to serve 10 million customers connected to emerging markets. With the funds, WorldRemit will enable customers in Africa to transfer money to ...
Resolution Insurance is set to invest $3 million on technology to bring insurance services to the region’s 150 million plus people. Speaking to TechMoran, Resolution Insurance’s founder and CEO Peter ...
Copia Global has raised $26 million in a Series B equity round led by LGT Lightstone, with participation from Goodwell Investments, Perivoli Innovations, Endeavor Catalyst and ELEA. Copia will use ...
The shift to data platforms has put the business model of all the MNOs under pressure. Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa has hit a brick wall, write RUSSELL SOUTHWOOD and STEVE ...
Ethiopia has announced a partnership with the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to build its digital economy, the Ethiopian Ministry of Innovation and Technology announced on Wednesday. The partnership was announced ...
Transsion Holdings, the Chinese phone manufacturer behind TECNO, Infinix and iTel brands has partnered Kenya’s Wapi Capital to invest up to $100,000 into early-stage fintech startups in Africa. Set to start in ...
Jack Ma's Africa Netpreneur Prize, a prize competition for African entrepreneurs has selected 7 esteemed entrepreneurs, investors, and businesspeople from across the continent to evaluate the semi-finalists and select the ...
Raino Tech4Impact, a Kenyan Social enterprise startup you have probably never heard of has received $100,000 in equity investments after emerging the best startup at the recently held pitch event ...
Kenya's Afya Plan, South Africa's MaxiCash and Nigeria's Social Lender were recognised by Suzanne Ashman, Partner at Local Globe, Cansu Deniz Bayrak, Head of Partnerships, Bethnal Green Ventures, Gary Stewart, ...
photo: cointelegraph.com Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies. It is essentially a distributed ledger database for recording transactions, referred to as blocks. ...
PayGo Energy, a smart-meter pay-as-you-go LPG provider has raised US $1.43M in Series Seed debt and equity financing led by Novastar Ventures, Energy Access Ventures and Village Capital with participation ...
South African-based pan-African investment firm Silvertree Capital, an arm of consumer internet platform Silvertree Internet Holdings will start 2016 with a plan to deploy $10m in investments, to new ...
According to Deloitte, Africa’s GDP is bound to grow to $3.7 trillion by 2019, that is a 50% increase, in the next five years. This is attributed to the way ...
According to a new report published by NCC, Airtel Nigeria has signed up 26, 194, 336.00 compared to Glo's 24, 490, 650.00 and Etisalat's and 18,119,397.00 making Airtel just second to MTN ...
IBM has dedicated $100 million to improve Africa's quality of life through a 10 year technology project called 'Project Lucy'. This name was given in honour of the oldest human ...
Less than one per cent of all patent applications relating to Clean Energy Technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, highlighting an opportunity for the continent to leapfrog existing fossil-fuel ...
