Startups
Jumia Kenya is downsizing| Starts banner advertising to bolster revenues
Jumia Kenya is downsizing, just weeks after it announced the closure of its e-tail site in Tanzania and weeks after...
Farmshine Raises USD 250,000 Funding from Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS
Farmshine, a Nairobi based agritech start-up that focuses on helping women subsistence farmers realize more income through smart ways has...
Online app Okolea launches IOS Version Improving financial access to SME Owners with IPhone Devices
Okolea loan app has launched an iOS app to reach the increasing number of local Apple device users in the...
Kenya’s Portable Voices signs a podcast distribution & production deal with pan-African counterpart Afripods
Portable Voices, a Kenyan audio production and podcast start-up has announced a podcast production and distribution partnership with Afripods, a...
Taffuta directory app wants to connect SMEs to their customers directly
Taffuta app, a new business directory aims to allow individuals and small businesses to connect directly to increase their sales...
12 Startups graduate from Class 4 of Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa
Launchpad Accelerator Africa, during the first-ever Google Startup Week in Nigeria saw its Class 4 of 12 startups from six...
Nigeria’s Migo (formerly Mines.io) raises $20m Series B, launches in Brazil
Migo (formerly Mines.io), a startup reinventing the way people access and use credit in emerging markets, has completed a Series...
SafeBoda finally launches in Nigeria to take on Max, GoKada, ORide
SafeBoda, a popular ride-hailing platform founded in East Africa has launched in Ibadan, Nigeria, a year after it launched in...
Bookings Africa, a Nigerian talent marketplace for creatives, raises funding & launches in Kenya
Bookings Africa, a Nigerian talent marketplace for creatives has launched in Kenya in a move expected to leverage technology to...
Kenya’s Copia Global raises $26m to launch into other African countries
Copia Global has raised $26 million in a Series B equity round led by LGT Lightstone, with participation from Goodwell...
Continent’s top startups invited to pitch at Africa Startup Summit
Disrupt Africa has opened applications to the 2020 edition of Pitch Live @ Africa Startup Summit, with ten startups to...
Sim Shagaya’s Edtech Startup uLesson Raises $3.1m Led by TLcom Ahead of Launch
uLesson, Sim Shagaya's edtech startup, has raised $3.1mn Seed Round led by TLcom Capital with participation by Sim Shagaya, its founder...
Angaza & SIMA launch a clean energy access fund for distributors
Angaza, together with SIMA, announces the launch of the SIMA Angaza Distributor Financing Fund (DFF), a data-driven investment fund that will...
Vectra, a POS software provider, wins Seedstars Cape Town
Vectra, who provides a single integrated device that combines the Point-of-Sale software as well as a speed point for card...
Waste to Value Accelerator to inject $100K into startups in East Africa
Waste to Value Accelerator, an initiative of BESTSELLER FOUNDATION and Intellecap are set to inject $100K into African startups in...
Rebecca Enonchong Elected New AfriLabs Board Chair
Rebecca Enonchong, founder and CEO of AppsTech, a provider of enterprise application solutions and chair of ActivSpaces, Cameroun was elected...
Showmax launches mobile plans with 50% price points in Kenya, Nigeria & SA
Showmax, a Naspers' owned subscription video-on-demand service has launched mobile-only plans targeting users in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa aimed...
Africa’s startup ecosystem on the brink of massive growth- VC4A
Africa’s startup ecosystem is on the brink of massive growth and there is growing number of startups securing major financial...
Samasource Raises $14.8M Series A , Launches a Delivery Center in Kampala
Samasource, a Nairobi and San Francisco-based AI training provider, has raised $14.8M million Series A funding round to scale its engineering, sales and...
Lynk’s new website makes it easy to book reliable household services online.
Lynk has revamped its website to make it easy for blue-collar professionals to easily find reliable and quality jobs online...
Sony Music Entertainment partners Boomplay to expand its reach within Africa
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) has partnered with African music streaming service, Boomplay to expand its reach within Africa targeting BoomPlay's...
Travelstart Launches Online Bus Booking Platform
Travelstart.co.za today launched a new online bus booking platform, available at bus.travelstart.co.za, to help customers save time and money by comparing bus...
BRCK launches Moja, it’s free public Wi-Fi in South Africa
BRCK, a Nairobi-based hardware startup has launched Moja, it's free public Wi-Fi in South Africa in an expansion move aimed...
Applications open for the fourth cohort of Injini EdTech incubator
Injini EdTech incubator has opened applications to startups interested in taking part in its fourth cohort to access financial and...
LifeBank launches drone deliveries, urged to focus on Nigeria
LifeBank, a medical sample and blood delivery startup has launched drone deliveries in a bid to help its partner institutions...
KampaBits Wins the 2019 Miss.Africa Digital Prize
KampaBits, a youth-based organization that exists to positively change the lives of vulnerable youth in Uganda has been named the...
Flit Ride is Madagascar’s answer to Uber but with better terms for drivers
Flit Ride, founded by Madagascar's Tolotra Samuel Randriakotonjanahary is an answer to Uber in the country but with better terms...
Orange Social Venture Prize Gives €50,000 to 3 top African Startups
Orange has unveiled the names of the three winners of the international competition for Africa and the Middle East for...
Pitch Ethiopia set to hold on November 22 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Pitch Ethiopia, an inaugural startup pitch and demo event is set to hold on November 22, 2019 at the Sheraton...
Nigeria’s LifeBank Wins $250,000 from Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize 2019
Nigeria's LifeBank was last night declared winner of the Jack Ma Foundation Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) prize taking home...