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...
Read moreUNICEF has launched the first African Drone and Data Academy (ADDA) in Lilongwe, Malawi in efforts projected to promote its programmes and services to change the lives of children and...
Read moreSafi 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...
Read moreJapan'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...
Read moreFuture 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...
Read moreSavannah Fund and NY based Betam Group have co-led a seed investment round into Ethiopia's Healthtech startup Orbit Health in a move that will see it increase its reach to more users...
Read moreMiddle 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...
Read moreGlovo, 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...
Read moreSafeBoda, 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...
Read more"Africa is at the forefront of an energy revolution," Azuri Technologies CEO, Simon Bransfield-Garth told TechMoran adding that Africa is leading in the adoption of solar energy just as it...
Read moreTuraco, a Nairobi-based micro-insurtech startup has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to further scale its operations across Africa. Turaco's round of funding was led by GAN Ventures, Mercy Corps...
Read moreHMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has today announced the availability of the Nokia C1 and Nokia 2.3 in Kenya, a week after the global launch held in Cairo on...
Read moreJumia Kenya is downsizing, just weeks after it announced the closure of its e-tail site in Tanzania and weeks after it did the same in Cameroon. Jumia Kenya MD Sam...
Read morePortable 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...
Read moreCode Mashinani, is an education startup teaching digital fluency (computational thinking) through coding, robotics and game development to kids between 7 and 18 years in Kenya. Code Mashinani is coined...
Read moreTaffuta 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...
Read moreSafeBoda, 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...
Read moreJumia, an 'Amazon' for Africa has closed its e-commerce operations in Tanzania, after a similar move in Cameroon, raising questions on the future of the firm known for rapid expansion....
Read moreSinapis has awarded Ksh 2 million to two entrepreneurs during their annual business plan competition held in Nairobi. The two, Boaz Katah, the founder of Tumoi Tea (www.tumoiteas.co.ke), a specialty...
Read moreWaste 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...
Read moreShowmax, a Naspers' owned subscription video-on-demand service has launched mobile-only plans targeting users in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa aimed at increasing Africa’s access to Video on Demand. Showmax’s new...
Read moreSamasource, 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...
Read moreLynk 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...
Read moreNigeria's LifeBank was last night declared winner of the Jack Ma Foundation Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) prize taking home $250,000 beating nine other finalists in the inaugural pitch competition....
Read moreTwiga Foods, the Kenyan B2B food distribution company, has raised $30 million to digitize food distribution in Kenya. Twiga Foods raised 23.75 million in Series B equity round led by...
Read moreCars45, a Nigerian automotive trading platform operated by Frontier Car Group, which raised $22m from EchoVC in 2017, $58m in May 2018 and $89m in the same month from Naspers,...
Read moreCarbon, Nigeria’s digital financial services firm, has opened up its API, to provide technology and services to startups, SMEs and FinTechs to help them build and scale their businesses. According...
Read moreTingg’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...
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