Startups
Pitch AgriHack awards over £60K into African innovators transforming Agriculture
Pitch AgriHack, a competition organised by CTA to support young agricultural entrepreneurs (agripreneurs), has awarded over £60,000 to several startups...
Cellulant Receives Africa Business Continuity Institute’s Award for its Resilience
Cellulant, a pan-African payments firm last evening received the most effective recovery of the year 2019 award from Africa’s Business...
Sesi Technologies & Maungo Craft win the $100K GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize
Sesi Technologies and Maungo Craft have been named winners of the inaugural $100,000 Generation Africa GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, a new...
Village Capital Agriculture Africa 2019 program startups unveiled
Village Capital Agriculture Africa 2019 program has announced startups that paricipated in this year's program which was focused on solutions...
HotelOnline to merge operations with Key Butler, a Norwegian traveltech startup
HotelOnline and Key Butler have agreed to merge their Norwegian entities in a European market consolidation move. Key Butler and...
Standard Chartered to invest $193k into 20 women-led tech startups
Standard Chartered and Strathmore University @iBizAfrica have announced a call for applications for the Women in tech incubator cohort three...
Omidyar’s Luminate launches a $1m media lab to fund journalism in Kenya
Omidyar Network's Luminate is investing $1m to launch a dedicated hub for journalists, publishers and media entrepreneurs dubbed the Baraza...
Nigeria’s Kuda raises $1.6m to become Africa’s biggest free digital bank
Kuda, Nigeria's digital-only bank has raised $1.6 million to simplify money management, spending and saving. The $1.6 million pre-seed investment...
Chivas Venture, a $1m global startup competition opens for applications
Chivas Venture, a $1 million global startup competition looking for social startups that blend profit and purpose has launched applications...
Vodacom launches a $150K digital accelerator to fuel Tanzania startups
Vodacom has launched Vodacom Digital Accelerator, a $150,000 initiative to invest in early-stage and growth-stage startups in Tanzania. The new...
FunDza launches on WhatsApp to bring reading into the lives of young South Africans
FunDza has launched on WhatsApp to get its already popular reading content into the hands of thousands of new readers....
Alibaba, Rwanda Govt launch a 4-year e-commerce training program for Rwandan students
Alibaba Group and the Rwandan government have launched a four-year training program for Rwandan students to learn cross-border e-commerce. Rwanda...
Bolt expands into Arusha and Zanzibar in Tanzania
Bolt, a taxi-hailing firm across Europe and Africa, is expanding into Tanzania to cover more cities in its pan-African expansion...
Reach Robotics, a robotics firm founded by Nigerian-British Silas Adekunle, calls it a day
Reach Robotics, a robotics firm founded in 2013 by Nigerian-British Silas Adekunle, 26, has called it a day. Based in...
Jumia revs up vendor loans to supplement its marketplace revenues
Jumia, an NYSE public listed e-commerce firm, is speeding up its lending offerings to its thousands of vendors to supplement...
Updated: Uber Bus set to launch in Lagos, Nigeria in a few months
Uber Bus, first launched in Cairo, Egypt, is set for a pan-African expansion this year, starting with Lagos, Nigeria in...
Zippie launches blockchain mobile wallet & rewards app across Africa
Zippie, a Hong Kong blockchain-based mobile wallet and super app has gone live across Africa to allow companies to reward...
Catalyst, unveiled by ABAN & Afrilabs, is a fund for African Startups
Catalyst, an AfriLabs and ABAN platform has launched to increase funding for startups in Africa as well as support the...
Africa has the right ingredients to grow its digital economy-Alibaba
"Africa has all of the right ingredients to see its digital economy grow, said Alibaba Group Vice President Brian Wong...
Naspers invests $2.33m into DappRadar, a tracking platform for blockchain apps
Naspers' investment arm, Naspers Ventures has invested $2.33 million into Lithuania-based DappRadar, a global platform for discovering and analysing blockchain-based...
Chipper Cash expands its free P2P & cross-border remittances to Nigeria
Chipper Cash, a venture-capital-backed cross-border payments firm based in San Fransico has expanded its operations to Nigeria in its pan-African...
Spring Fellowship Accelerator selects 4 startups for its inaugural program
Spring Fellowship Accelerator, powered by Kinaya Ventures has selected four startups into the inaugural accelerator to be held in Abidjan,...
Kenya’s MODE acquired by Singapore’s TransferTo (DT One) to bolster its global mobile top-up solutions
MoDE, Mobile Decisioning, a Kenyan mobile value-added services firm providing airtime credit to mobile network operators in emerging nations has...
Mobiclicks, a South African mobile ad agency launches in Kenya
Mobiclicks, a South African mobile advertising agency has launched in Kenya in a move expected to take advantage of East...
ShopIT, Wakulima & ExportUnity named winners of Nestlé innovation challenge
ShopIT, ExportUnity and Wakulima from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, have been named winners of the Nestlé Research and...
Accion Venture Lab Launches New $23M Fund for Fintech Startups
Accion has announced that its seed-stage investment arm Accion Venture Lab is adding $33M to its initial capital pool, with the launch...
Erada Technology Alliance receives €288,000 from De Beers Group for its saliva-based diagnostic tests
Erada Technology Alliance, a South African heathtech startup, has received a €288 000 foundation grant from the De Beers Group...
ENGIE acquires Mobisol to expand its solar energy offering in Africa
ENGIE has acquired Mobisol, a struggling off-grid solar solution to expand its decentralized energy offering in Africa adding 3 additional...
PEG Africa raises $5m from ElectriFI for West Africa expansion
PEG Africa, a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar firm with operations in Senegal, Ghana and Ivory Coast, has raised $5 million from...
Sun Exchange is raising $460K to build a gamified solar cell ownership platform
Sun Exchange, the Cape Town-based buy-to-lease solar cell marketplace, has announced it's raising R7 million (approx. US $460,000) for approximately...