Funding

African tech startups raised $560 million in VC funding in 2017, a 53% YoY Growth according to a report by Partech Ventures with a total of 128...

Africell Holdings has signed a new $116.5m syndicated loan for the expansion of its mobile network operations across sub-Saharan Africa. According to founding CEO and...

Pawame, Kenya and UAE based off-grid solar start-up has raised $2 million from Gulf-based investors to electrify 150 million households in sub-Saharan Africa. The funding...

African tech startups raised $560 million in VC funding in 2017, a 53% YoY Growth as African entrepreneurs leverage tech and digital to tackle...

There are over 300 tech hubs in Africa, with 50% of them concentrated in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco. However, Innovation hubs in Africa...

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Sierra Leone's Azimuth trading as Easy Solar, a pay-as-you-go solar distribution company has raised funding from Acumen’s Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative, an effort to bridge the funding...

Some days back, LifeBank, which is like the foremost Nigeria’s digital blood bank, raised $200 000 for expansion nationwide. The startup which according to their...

The "startup mambila" project is an incubation program which was specifically designed for start-ups in the northeastern part of Nigeria. This looks to be...

Kenyan based eCommerce company, Sky.Garden,which is works as a ''Shopify for Africa'', has raised a $1.2 million to launch its next generation merchant platform later...

Goodwell Investments, which has invested in Paga, Nomanini among others, has raised 20 million Euro from over 30 investors for investments in inclusive economy...

French development finance institution Proparco has just taken a $ 5 million stake in TLCOM TIDE AFRICA FUND to finance young innovative companies in sub-Saharan...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has helped Partech Ventures launch a €100 million fund focused to largest venture-capital fund focused on...

Over 600 million people are estimated to lack access to modern energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, this is set to change as off-grid energy firms...

Nigeria's Farmcrowdy, an online platform allowing Nigerians to venture in and sponsor agriculture has closed $1 million in seed funding to scale its operations with...

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...

Sun King solar brand's parent firm Greenlight Planet has raised $60m in equity and debt led by London-based private equity fund manager Apis Partners...

Mobisol, one of Africa’s leading providers of off-grid solar home systems, has secured a total of $25m in the last six months for growth...

mPharma, a venture-backed startup with a simple mission to make prescription drugs in emerging markets easily accessible, and easily affordable has raised a $6.6...

Eventtus, a MENA events platform recently raised $2m led by Algebra Ventures and 500 Startups to allow Eventtus to accelerate its expansion in the...

 Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region has launched a USD 100 million...

M-Shule has won the Kenyan round of Seedstars Nairobi earning the opportunity to represent the country at the major Seedstars summits in Mozambique and...

Jumo, a big data analytics firm which allows cost-efficient provision of loans has raised $6m from Finnfund in form of a debt instrument to...

Naked, an insuretech startup set to launch in South Africa in the first quarter of 2018 has received funding through a R20 million investment...

Knife Capital, a Cape Town-based venture capital firm has made its first global investment since opening the London office in a Stockholm-based IoT specialist. The...

South Africa's Digital Cabinet has received R5m led by HAVAÍC and a consortium of individuals including its own team, and Growth Grid Venture Capital...

Sun Exchange has raised $1.6 million in seed financing from Network Society Ventures, Kalon Venture Partners and three of the world's leading technology accelerators,...

  As a promising startup, you may be asking yourself "What exactly do Venture Capitalists have interest in pitches?" Well, the answer is quite simple...

Ghana's Bloom Impact, a machine learning loans marketplace accessible from smartphones has raised undisclosed funding from Engineers Without Borders Canada, EWB Ventures, an early-stage investor in innovative Africa-based...

Big Pot, 1 Million Teachers &  TruuScore have been declared winners of Co-creation Hub (CcHUB)'s first Diaspora Challenge and will each receive a $15,000...