Milcah Lukhanyu, Author at TechMoran

ClickPesa has added Chris Low, an international banking, financial inclusion, digital transformation has joined into its advisory team in a move set to help grow the firm. ClickPesa offers a...

Tech

Enda, The Kenyan Running Shoe Company, Wins Major International Prize

Enda, a Kenyan startup making running shoes, beat more than 400 other entrants to win the Body & Mind category at the ISPO Brandnew competition in Munich, Germany. Enda is...

Tech

Five Kenyans shortlisted for Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Five Kenyans have been shortlisted for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, run by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering, which recognizes ambitious African innovators who are developing scalable engineering...

Knife Capital set to launch KNF Ventures Fund 2 to bolster startup investments

Knife Capital is launching KNF Ventures Fund 2 and working on ways to plug the Series-B funding gap that exists in SA where there are limited local investors that lead...

Tech

Zayed Sustainability Prize Opens Submissions for 2021 Edition

Zayed Sustainability Prize has officially announced that its submissions process for the 2021 edition is now open following the recent celebration of the 10 winners of the 2020 awards during...

CiTi’s Women in Business programme Opens for Western Cape Women Entrepreneurs

CiTi's Women in Business programme, now in its third year has opened for Western Cape Women Entrepreneurs from February 2020. CiTi's or Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative Women in Business...

Morocco’s real estate site Mubawab raises $7m for expansion

Mubawab, a real estate site in Morocco, created in 2010 has raised another $7 million in funding led by the EMPG Group for expansion. Mubawab will use the funding to accelerate its...

Rensource raises $3m equity investments from Proparco, EU

Rensource has raised $3 million from Proparco, with the support of the European Union under the Africa Renewable Energy Scale-Up facility (ARE Scale-Up). Rensource, the first beneficiary in the program,...

Business

Grant Brooke, Co-Founder, Twiga Foods steps down from active management

Grant Brooke, Co-Founder, Twiga Foods has stepped down from active management of the firm he co-founded more than five years ago. Brooke had handed over his CEO role last year...

Nigeria’s VerifyMe secures Series A financing from Consonance Investment Managers

VerifyMe Nigeria, an ID verification and KYC technology company, recently secured a Series A financing for an undisclosed amount from Consonance Investment Managers. VerifyMe Nigeria will use the funds to...

Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource Passes On at 37

Samasource, a Nairobi and San Francisco-based AI training provider, has lost its founder and CEO Leila Janah, to a rare form of cancer. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Leila...

Omidyar Network Spins Off Imaginable Futures, a $350 Investment Firm Focused on Learning

Omidyar Network has spun off Imaginable Futures, its global philanthropic firm focusing on unlocking human potential through learning. Imaginable Futures begins with $200 million of capital invested, and an additional $150...

Tech

The Best Advice for Getting Yeezys – Use Proxies

January 26, 2020

If you have waited all year to get your hands on the latest limited-edition sneakers, it is time to brace up for the real thing. Staying updated about the release...

SA VC firm Kalon Venture Partners invests in cyber-security email protection and compliance business, Sendmarc

January 25, 2020

Sendmarc, a cyber-security email protection and compliance business, has received investment from South African venture capital firm Kalon Venture Partners. Sendmarc was launched in 2018 by Sam Hutchinson, Keith Thompson...

Vuba Vuba launches in Kigali to fill the gap left by Jumia Food

January 24, 2020

Vuba Vuba Africa, a new online food ordering and delivery platform has launched in Rwanda to fill the gap left by Jumia Food which shut operations in Kigali, Rwanda in...

Why CanGo, on-demand ride-hailing platform formerly SafeMotos called it a day

January 24, 2020

CanGo, on-demand ride-hailing platform has called it a day, just seven months after it launched in Kinshasa. SafeMotos, an on-demand ride-hailing platform focusing on motorcycle taxis in Kigali had officially...

SafeBoda reaches 3000 riders in Nairobi, slashes prices by 40 percent

January 23, 2020

SafeBoda, a motorcycle hailing and delivery platform, has signed up 3,000 drivers in Nairobi since its launch in the city and has announced a 40 percent cut in prices to...

Tech

Vodacom Tanzania disconnects 157,000 subscribers for failing to register their Sim Cards biometrically

January 22, 2020

Vodacom Tanzania PLC has disconnected 157,000 after failing to register their Sim Cards biometrically, as required by Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority’s (‘TCRA’) as of January 20, 2020. Vodacom’s Managing Director...

Startupbootcamp FinTech Dubai 2020 selects Egypt’s Fawaterak & SA’s SnapSlip

January 22, 2020

Startupbootcamp Fintech Dubai 2020 has selected Egypt's Fawaterak and South Africa's SnapSlip to join this year's cohort. Startupbootcamp FinTech Dubai 2020 selected 10 startups. Fawaterak is an online invoicing and...

Guest Posts

How Being Good at Technology Helps in Writing Essays

January 22, 2020

With the world progressing so fast, there is a lot that a student needs to do to stay in the running. With the help of technology and the solutions it...

Kenyan online bus booking startup QuickBus raises funding from UAE-based Shorooq Partners

January 21, 2020

QuickBus, a recently launched online bus booking startup has raised an undisclosed funding round from UAE-based Shorooq Partners to expand operations in the region. QuickBus, an online marketplace ticketing system...

AT Labs, Lori Systems & SunCulture to host MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Lab projects

January 21, 2020

AT Labs, Lori Systems and SunCulture have been selected to host MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory (G-Lab) projects in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management. The three Kenyan companies poised to...

Tech

Start Your Business in the UAE Now!

The process of establishing a company in the UAE The process of establishing a company in the UAE entails several demanding procedures and difficulties. Despite multiple benefits offered by the...

TLcom’s TIDE Africa Fund raises $15 million from CDC Group

TLcom’s TIDE Africa Fund has raised $15 million from CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, to support early-stage high-growth start-ups across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). TLcom's TIDE...

Janngo unveils its €60m Janngo Capital Startup Fund for fintechs in Africa

Janngo has unveiled its 60€ million Janngo Capital Startup Fund to back technology startups founded, co-founded or benefiting women. Janngo Capital Startup Fund is part of Janngo’s broader commitment on...

Tech

Safaricom & Ria Money Transfer to Power International Money Transfers with M-PESA

Safaricom has partnered with Ria Money Transfer, subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc., to empower more than 26 million M-PESA customers to conveniently receive international money transfers from over 20 countries across...

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Liquid Telecom to launch first 5G wholesale roaming network service in South Africa

Liquid Telecom is to launch the first 5G wholesale roaming service in South Africa from early 2020 in all major South African cities to enable wholesale operators to create innovative,...

Tech

African women entrepreneurs pitch their startups at Start-up Night Africa

11 African women entrepreneurs pitched their businesses to UK investors at Start-up Night Africa, ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit next week. Founders, CEOs and entrepreneurs from a range of...

Tech

US Construction Industry: What to Expect in 2020