Tingg’s all-in-one payment model seeks to revolutionize the way consumers interact with payment services in the region Cellulant, Africa’s leading financial technology company recently rebranded their Mula app to Tingg,...
Read moreAs the world enters the fourth industrial revolution, employers are finding it hard to either find the right talent or retain it. This is because automation, digital platforms, and other...
Read moreCellulant, the pan-African payments firm has been quietly building a payments super app to bring bill payments, remittances, lending, group investments, food and gas orders in one app in its...
Read moreAndela, the Venture-backed firm that builds distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, is set to potentially let go of approximately 420 junior engineers and staff to deliver stronger...
Read morekwik Delivery, an on-demand delivery platform focusing on the B2B and B2B2C market has released its Application Programming Interface (API) to merchants and businesses in Lagos to help them seamlessly...
Read moreCellulant, a pan-African payments firm last evening received the most effective recovery of the year 2019 award from Africa’s Business Continuity Institute Awards (BCI) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cellulant received...
Read moreHotelOnline and Key Butler have agreed to merge their Norwegian entities in a European market consolidation move. Key Butler and HotelOnline merger will form Stay Plus and will target the...
Read moreSpring Fellowship Accelerator, powered by Kinaya Ventures has selected four startups into the inaugural accelerator to be held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The inaugural cohort is an assembly of talented...
Read moreMoDE, Mobile Decisioning, a Kenyan mobile value-added services firm providing airtime credit to mobile network operators in emerging nations has been acquired by Singapore's TransferTo, which rebranded recently to DT...
Read moreAccion has announced that its seed-stage investment arm Accion Venture Lab is adding $33M to its initial capital pool, with the launch of a new $23M fund and an additional, separate $10M investment from Accion. The...
Read moreTelkom Kenya Limited and Airtel Networks Kenya Limited, announced, on February 8, 2019, an intention to merge their businesses in Kenya and become a force to reckon with. The two...
Read morePEG Africa, a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar firm with operations in Senegal, Ghana and Ivory Coast, has raised $5 million from ElectriFI to continue rapid growth in existing markets. The funding...
Read moreKenya's MPost, an application that converts your phone to a mobile post office has revealed it raised $100,000 from Leapfrog Ventures founder and CEO Takuma Terakubo last year to enable...
Read moreSympliFi, a U.K.-based fintech has launched a diaspora guaranteed loan service to enable residents in the diaspora fund entrepreneurship, education, savings and healthcare of their friends and family in Africa...
Read moreKobo360, the IFC-backed African e-Logistics startup has officially launched in Nairobi, Kenya after five months of running a beta operation in the East African nation. For the five months, the...
Read moreSWVL, a shuttle-hailing firm with operations in Egypt and Nairobi today announced plans to pump $15 million (KES 1.5 billion) into its Kenyan operations to improve its current operations and...
Read moreSendy, Kenya's logistics platform has opened up its platform to include freight services from the inland container depot and long-haul logistics services. The entry into freight services signals Sendy's growth...
Read moreJumia, an NYSE listed e-commerce platform for Africa backed earlier on by MTN and Rocket Internet, is mulling spinning-off its fintech arm JumiaPay to focus on payments, microloans, and ticketing...
Read moreIn June 2019, MAX.ng, announced it had raised $6 million from Novastar Ventures, Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Zrosk Investment Management, and Goodwell Investments. Additionally, the company received...
Read moreMEST Africa has invested $300,000 into three Kenyan startups from it's $1.1m seed fund. The three Kenyan startups, Farmula, Saada & Nadia were part of MEST Africa's 11 startups from...
Read moreMtabe App, MyHI, Sheria Kiganjani, Kilimo Fresh Foods, Noobites, Nuru- EX-Africa Tanzania- MITZ Innovations are set to pitch at SEEDSTARS Dar Es Salaam on 23rd August 2019 at Seedspace Dar...
Read moreOpera'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...
Read moreNigeria's Mofoluke Ayoola, who started RedViolet Company as a traditional interior design company, in 2010, is set to launch Furnisee, an IKEA-style DIY home furnishing solution in the UK. Ayoola,...
Read moreKobo360, a digital marketplace for long distance hauliers connecting cargo owners to vetted and reliable trucks, has raised $30 million to build a Global Logistics Operating System powering trade...
Read moreOpay, Opera's Africa's focused payments and everything platform has added OTrike, a tricycle hailing service to its portfolio, as it moves to become Africa's biggest super-app. Use cases for its...
Read moreTrella, the Cairo-based trucking marketplace, which recently raised $600k+ in a pre-seed funding led by Algebra Ventures, has joined Y Combinator’s S19 batch, to disrupt the fragmented trucking industry in...
Read moreGhana's Nvoica by Growth Factor, which solves the problem of cash flow issues caused by late payments by enabling SMEs to get paid in 24hrs when dealing with credit clients,...
Read moreAfriLabs, a pan-African network of 158 technology and innovation centers in 45 African countries has partnered with the African Union Commission to host the 2019 AfriLabs Annual Gathering. The Annual...
Read moreVivendi Group, a subsidiary of French Bolloré Holdings is set to invest $40 million in Rwanda, after a partnership with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB). The deal will see Vivendi...
Read moreJack Ngare, MD Finserve Africa, an independent commercial fintech arm of Equity Bank Group, has been appointed MD Microsoft's Africa Development Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Launched in May 2019, the...
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