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In April 2018, Kenya’s Africa’s Talking announced it had raised $8.6m Series A Investment from World Bank's IFC to expand across Africa....

A new job search engine has launched to serve Africa and its diaspora, helps match job seekers looking for rewarding careers...

The King Baudouin Foundation awards the African Development Prize to Wecyclers, a Lagos based waste management start-up. The Prize will allow Wecyclers...

PEG Africa, a West Africa-based pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar company, has raised a US$25 million Series C funding round, taking its funding total...

A new 'Uber for trucks' startup has launched in Kenya to take on Sendy, Lori Systems, Senga, and Bwalae in...

Over 2 billion people globally have no access to reliable and affordable energy as the grid infrastructure is expensive to deploy.

Epesi Trip Planner, a web-based vehicle scheduling software that queues, routes, maps, and manages rides, drivers & conductors in real-time has been...

I have only been back home in Kenya for only ten days and I am already filled with a deluge of text...

Africa-focused Ampion which had called it quits in 2017 has resurrected with a new partnership with Berlin-based Plutos Ventures Holding to...

Recruitment is going digital globally and firms that are not ready will be left behind as technology is becoming part and parcel...

Beyond Capital Fund, an impact investment fund that invests in for-profit social enterprises throughout India and East Africa has made its second investment into...

Kenyan Internet Services provider, BRCK, has acquired its rival Surf, in a move that makes it one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest public networks....

African tech startups smashed funding records in 2018 as 210 startups secured US$334.5 million worth of investment, with Nigeria emerging as the...

Tiketi.com offers a curated selection of unique travel experiences for a variety of popular destinations around Africa. Customers can find a number of African...

With customers in 40+ countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan, and Myanmar, this disease intelligence firm helping bring rapid detection and response to infectious diseases around...

This solar technology firm, with operations in Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya, offering solar power for businesses and communities based on a pre-configured model, including high-performance solar modules and...

Impact investors in Africa are not as many and several firms are making sure to encourage and bring toegther a network of investors both...

PAYG technology allows low-income residents of rural areas to buy solar home systems and other solar-powered products with installment payments via mobile money. It simultaneously...

Fibre Space Ltd, the firm behind cash light fare system ‘MY1963’ which had vowed to bring sanity in Kenya’s Matatu’s industry by use of...

After being active in Southern Africa for ten years, offering a range of quality solar products such as Solar Home Systems (SHS) which give...

HotelOga, a cloud-based dashboard designed to help hospitality outfits get online presence free was launched to change how hotels use technology to increase bookings...

ROAM Jobs platform Brightermonday in East Africa (focusing on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) and Jobberman in West Africa (focusing on Nigeria and Ghana) have reported a...

Three billion dollars is spent on blood each year across Africa and yet there is a 50% shortage of the blood needed. Sisu Global, an...

The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (OGEF) had its first close on Thursday, 2 August 2018 with committed capital of US$ 58 million from the...

letgo the biggest and fastest growing app to buy and sell locally, announced today that Naspers has committed to invest $500M of new capital...

Entrepreneurs in Africa and across other emerging markets can smile as a new $50 million venture fund has been launched to help identify and...

The off-grid solar industry is one of the fastest-growing in Africa. The sector has seen more than US$360 million in investment across the continent...

Human error is a factor in 95% of security breaches, yet organisations still don’t spend enough time on cyber security training. A recent survey...

Ghana has recently launched the Presidential Pitch competition; a business idea competition that aims to expand the entrepreneurial climate in the country and enable...

In a move to its users the freedom to send money whenever they want and how they want, this remittance firm, which has been...