Startups
Transsion Holdings & Wapi Capital Launch a $100K Startup Fund For African Fintech Startups
Transsion Holdings, the Chinese phone manufacturer behind TECNO, Infinix and iTel brands has partnered Kenya’s Wapi Capital to invest up to $100,000...
Meet Nigeria’s Mofoluke Ayoola, the RedViolet Company CEO launching a DIY home furnishing startup in the UK
Nigeria's Mofoluke Ayoola, who started RedViolet Company as a traditional interior design company, in 2010, is set to launch Furnisee,...
NilePay, new mobile money platform launches in South Sudan
NilePay, recently partnered with Zain South Sudan to launch NilePay Mobile Money in a move to eliminate significant barriers that...
African Startups Invited to Apply for the €100,000 Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge, a global startup competition addressing the needs of deep tech entrepreneurs across several industries is open...
SOLA Group secures $26.1 debt financing for solar PV projects in South Africa
SOLA Group, South Africa's solar PV builder has secured R400m ($26.1m) from African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), and Nedbank Energy Finance...
uKheshe, a South Africa micro-transaction startup raises seed funding at a valuation of R100m
uKheshe, a South African micro transaction platform that allows card holders to pay and get paid, has announced the completion...
Zeelo, UK’s shuttle service raises £4.25m & officially launches in South Africa
Zeelo, a UK online shuttle booking service has officially launched in South Africa after a series of months of beta...
Seedstars opens applications for the “$10K DOEN Land Restoration Prize”
Seedstars, together with the DOEN Foundation (Stichting DOEN), a Dutch fund supporting green initiatives, has launched the DOEN Land Restoration...
Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Selects 7 Icons as 2019 Judges
Jack Ma's Africa Netpreneur Prize, a prize competition for African entrepreneurs has selected 7 esteemed entrepreneurs, investors, and businesspeople from...
Nigeria’s Inlaks Launches ‘thehatch’ Innovation Lab For Fintech Startups
Nigeria's Inlaks, a 1982-established systems integrator in the Banking, Telecommunication, Oil and Gas, Power, Utilities and the Distribution sectors has...
Naspers leads a $125m round into India’s Social Commerce Marketplace Meesho
Naspers, the South African ecommerce and media conglomerate, has led a $125 million funding round into social commerce marketplace Meesho...
Bosch & Founders Factory to inject $30,000 into Africa’s Smart Mobility Startups
Bosch Africa and Founders Factory, have launched a smart mobility challenge targeting Africa's top startups in the sector. The two...
Uber Eats Kenya adds bicycle, roller skaters and skateboarders as delivery partners
Uber Eats, which was launched last year in Nairobi has introduced food delivery on bicycles, roller skates and skateboards just...
Kobo360 raises $30m led by Goldman Sachs to enter 10 new countries across Africa
Kobo360, a digital marketplace for long distance hauliers connecting cargo owners to vetted and reliable trucks, has raised $30 million...
Lumkani receives funding from GSMA to install an additional 20,000 fire detectors in South African homes
Lumkani, a South African fire detection startup has installed its early warning fire detection system in 20,000 homes across South...
Zolango, inspired life in a Nairobi Slum, is a Marketplace for Bitcoin lovers
Founded by Amit Aggarwal, Andrei Kaleis and MVK, Zolango, an ecommerce marketplace has gone live and is offering to buy...
Mettā & HIVOS select 5 startups for the 3rd Fashion Product Lab
Mettā has selected 5 startups into its third fashion product lab cohort powered by HIVOS East Africa after a rigorous...
OPay launches tricycle hailing services OTrike in Nigeria
Opay, Opera's Africa's focused payments and everything platform has added OTrike, a tricycle hailing service to its portfolio, as it...
Raino Tech4Impact raises $100K equity round from Samurai Incubate Africa
Raino Tech4Impact, a Kenyan Social enterprise startup you have probably never heard of has received $100,000 in equity investments after...
Trella joins YC to disrupt MENAs fragmented trucking industry
Trella, the Cairo-based trucking marketplace, which recently raised $600k+ in a pre-seed funding led by Algebra Ventures, has joined Y...
Cannabis firm Bangi, Inc. banking on M-PESA to woo Kenyan investors
BANGI, Inc. a US-based firm that acquires and leases specialized real estate assets in the cannabis, hemp and CBD industries...
mSurvey rebrands to Ajua to reposition for growth, evolution & ambition
mSurvey, a Nairobi-based Customer Experience firm has rebranded to Ajua, in a move to reflect its growth, ambition and African...
Nigeria’s TechAdvance Raises $1M From UAE’s Lamar Holdings For Expansion
Nigeria's TechAdvance, a payment application development firm has raised $1m from Bahrain-based energy investment firm Lamar Holding putting its valuation at $20M....
Seedstars Accra Awards NVOICA as Best Startup in Ghana
Ghana's Nvoica by Growth Factor, which solves the problem of cash flow issues caused by late payments by enabling SMEs...
Pakistani’s Bus booking startup Airlift raises over $2.2M to expand into new markets, including Nairobi
Pakistani's bus booking startup Airlift, launched less than five months ago, has raised over $2.2 million to expand into new...
GSMA receives £38m funding from DFID to drive digital identity & inclusion
The GSMA recently signed a thirty-eight million-pound partnership with UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) for 'Inclusion, Innovation and Scale.’...
CrossBoundary Energy Access & PowerGen to invest $5.5m into mini-grid projects in Tanzania
CrossBoundary Energy Access (CBEA), a mini-grids financer has said it will finance 60 mini-grids in Tanzania in partnership with PowerGen...
Kenya’s Chumz.io launches to enable millennials to save more & achieve their financial goals
Chumz.io is a new platform that aims to enable its users to reach their savings goal by starting as low...
Tinder parent firm Match Group acquires Egypt’s dating site Harmonica
Match Group has acquired Cairo-based Harmonica, a dating app focused on the Muslim demographic globally to double down on the...
Kenya’s Ilara Health raises $735K from ShakaVC, Chandaria Capital for its affordable diagnostics platform
Ilara Health, a Nairobi-based affordable diagnostics platform targeting over 500 million people in Africa, has raised $735,000 to onboard new...