Startups
Inclusivity Solutions raises an additional $ 1.3 million to deepen its footprint within its existing markets
Inclusivity Solutions, the South African digital insurance solutions firm, has secured an additional US$ 1.3 million in its second tranche...
Rentpay promising Kenyan landlords real-time rent reconciliation
Rentpay, a rent collection system that provides real-time payment reconciliation and automation of business processes, has launched in Kenya to...
South Africa’s Mama Money Expands Global Reach with Western Union
Mama Money, a rapidly growing international money transfer company, have joined forces with Western Union, to enable Mama Money customers...
Middletrust.com, an escrow platform, launches in Nigeria to secure users against online fraud
Middletrust.com, an escrow platform, has launched to help secure Nigerians against online fraud as COVID-19 pushes the world to turn...
Entrepreneurs from Kenya, Nigeria take home $30,000 from the 2020 ASME Innovation Showcase
Entrepreneurs from Kenya, Nigeria have been selected as regional winners of the 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Innovation...
Catch Taxi Kenya, starting with ride-hailing, wants to be East Africa’s super app
Catch Taxi Kenya is a new entrant into the African ride-hailing industry that prioritizes safety, comfort, and efficiency. Catch Taxi...
Kobo360’s Obi Ozor and Ife Oyedele II Selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs
Endeavor has welcomed Obi Ozor and Ife Oyedele II, co-founders of Kobo360, were selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs on May 21,...
Sanofi Selects 11 Startups for its 2020 AfricaTech Challenge
Sanofi has announced it will on June 11th organize an online pitch session as part of its AfricaTech Challenge in a...
Bolt raises €100m to expand its product segments in Europe & Africa
Bolt, the Uber rival, has raised €100m ( Ksh 11 billion) from London-based Naya Capital Management to boost its growth...
Kenya’s MarketForce 360 Raises $350,000 to Fuel its East African Expansion
Kenya's MarketForce 360, a field sales and distribution automation software and a subsidiary of Mesozi Group, has raised $350,000 seed investment...
Uber lays off 600 staff in India in COVID-19 pandemic crunch
Uber India has laid off 600 of its 2,600 staff across all levels of teams due to the impact of...
Alitheia IDF raises $10M from Open Society to fuel women economic empowerment
Alitheia IDF has raised $10 million from Open Society to amplify women’s voices in economic empowerment. Alitheia IDF, says the...
Voyance launches Sigma, a fraud monitoring platform for African fintech startups
Voyance, a data science company based in Lagos has launched a fraud monitoring platform that aggregates data from fin-techs within Africa, starting...
Deezer Reveals Africa’s Most Streamed Artists & Burna Boy Tops
Deezer, the global music streaming service has revealed Africa’s most-streamed artists and Nigerian great Burna Boy tops the list in...
Andela’s remote future as an Upwork for longterm engineering tasks
Andela and Microsoft 4Afrika have partnered to up-skill developers in Kenya and Nigeria where selected developers will learn basic skills...
South Africa’s Peach Payments secures new funding for pan-African expansion
Peach Payments, a payments platform for entrepreneurs, SMEs and large enterprise businesses in South Africa, has raised growth funding to...
Naspers Foundry invests $5.5 million in SA’s agritech business, Aerobotics
Naspers has invested $5.5 million (R100 million) into South Africa's agritech business Aerobotics, through Naspers Foundry, its early-stage business funding...
SWVL Kenya approved by NTSA to start operations after lockdown
SWVL Kenya has announced that it has now met all requirements and is now 100% compliant with Kenya's National Transport...
Carbon launches Carbon Express, its new WeChat-like Social Banking Service
Carbon, a Nigerian digital financial services firm which recently launched in Kenya, has today unveiled Carbon Express - A keyboard...
Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raises $6M Series A led by Anthemis
Kenya's Apollo Agriculture has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Anthemis to boost the output and earnings of...
Cathay Innovation, a KaiOS, Glovo investor raises $550M to back startups at the inflection point of growth
Cathay Innovation, an investor in KaiOS and Glovo among others has raised €500M ($550M), for its second venture capital fund...
Facebook launches ‘Shops’ to help small businesses create online stores
Facebook has today announced the launch of "Facebook Shops". The companies new product that will give small businesses tools to...
Plentywaka Launches Corporate Staff Bus Solutions |Adds Extra Routes
Plentywaka, a Nigerian bus-hailing service, has launched the “Plentywaka Staff Bus Solutions” a service targeted at corporate companies to help...
Innovate Now Accelerator Seeking African Mobile Tech Startups Assisting Persons with Disabilities
Innovate Now, Africa’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator is seeking applications from innovators across Africa to develop mobile-based technologies designed to...
Uber cuts 3,000 more jobs, shuts 45 Offices in Coronavirus crunch
Uber is cutting three thousand additional jobs, closing 45 offices worldwide as the company struggles through the pandemic period. The...
Gumzo, A Video Conference Platform Made By Africans For Africans
Gumzo, a video conference platform made by Africans comes into the market at a time when online communication is most...
The Bulb Africa Invests $25,000 into Nigerian Healthcare Startup Emergency Response Africa
The Bulb Africa, a Nigerian tech hub has invested $25,000 seed investment funding into Emergency Response Africa through its #ALLoverCOVID19...
Fenix launches blockchain platform to help music artists monetize & reach their fans
FENIX, the startup empowering independent artists to reach fans directly, has launched a blockchain-based platform to help artists to reach...
Sawiris-Backed Gemini Enterprises launches Initiative to back MENA startups during COVID-19
Gemini Enterprises Africa, part of Orascom Group, has launched the “Gemini Uplift Initiative” to help startup founders tackle their most...
Techstars-Backed Nigerian Startup Fliqpay Launches Cryptocurrency Payments Gateway
Fliqpay, a Techstars-backed Nigerian startup has launched a cryptocurrency payments gateway to allow African businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments on...