ToffeeTribe, a new Nairobi-based membership community has launched to transform underutilized spaces in restaurants to provide affordable coworking spaces to freelancers, remote workers, founders and anyone else who needs to...

M-WAKS, a new platform by Kenya's Dreamwaks Ltd has launched to help individuals, SMEs and corporate companies to hire, rate and verify workers specifically in the gig economy. M-WAKS aims...

Superfluid Labs, a Kenyan data analytics startup has been named winner of the ENGIE Challenge at Africa Tech Summit Kigali, earning the chance to secure a testing phase with the...

South African sales tech provider Skynamo has secured $30 million in Series A from software investor, Five Elms Capital, to accelerate adoption of its field sales app and cloud-based management platform...

Safi Analytics CEO Lauren Dunford has started a new fire on social media when she said in a statement that Kennedy Ng’ang’a, it's co-founder as a disgruntled former employee and...

Japan's Samurai Incubate has launched Samurai Africa Fund II, a new $18.3 million fund to invest in startups in Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria with ticket sizes of about $46,000 to...

Future Africa Fund, an angel fund for African startups has launched to invest $50,000 into 20 startups each year to help them scale and serve Africa's booming enterprise and consumer...

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)-based startups raised over $700 million in 2019 region with Egypt leading the pack according to a report by ​MAGNiTT​, MENA’s most comprehensive startup data...

​Glovo​, Barcelona-based on-demand delivery firm has raised €150million ($167 million) in Series E funding led by ​Mubadala​, with further support from previous investors ​Drake Enterprises​, ​Idinvest ​and ​Lakestar​. Glovo's investment...

SafeBoda, an Uber for Motorcycles in Africa has added food, delivery and payments to its platform, just weeks after launching in Nigeria, in a move that helps it complete the...

Portable Voices, a Kenyan audio production and podcast start-up has announced a podcast production and distribution partnership with Afripods, a Nairobi-based pan-African platform for podcasters. The deal will see Afripods...

Taffuta app, a new business directory aims to allow individuals and small businesses to connect directly to increase their sales leads and serve their customers in Kenya. Taffuta, which is...

SafeBoda, a popular ride-hailing platform founded in East Africa has launched in Ibadan, Nigeria, a year after it launched in Nairobi, Kenya, making Nigeria its third African market after it...

Waste to Value Accelerator, an initiative of BESTSELLER FOUNDATION and Intellecap are set to inject $100K into African startups in a move to help manage waste due to rapid ubarnisation...

Samasource, a Nairobi and San Francisco-based AI training provider, has raised $14.8M million Series A funding round to scale its engineering, sales and marketing efforts. The firm has also opened an AI Development...

Lynk has revamped its website to make it easy for blue-collar professionals to easily find reliable and quality jobs online and connect with households and businesses in Nairobi needing their...