Startups
PEG Africa enters Mali, its fourth market of operations
PEG Africa, a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar company based in West Africa, has moved into Mali, its fourth market since launch...
Cellulant & Tawakal in a €2m partnership deal with Ireland’s PiPiT
PiPiT, a secure and private online payment platform which helps migrants transfer cash and pay bills overseas, has entered into a...
Mohiri, a personalized job alerts service wins Seedstars Botswana
Mohiri, a personalized job alerts service aimed at improving the visibility of job opportunities by connecting users to vacancies that...
Zumi, a lifestyle & fashion magazine which raised over $370,000 calls it a day
Zumi, a lifestyle and fashion magazine focused on the millennial generation has called it a day, and the founders are...
Bolt launches a €10 million climate change fund, inks first deal with M-KOPA Solar
Bolt, Europe and Africa's on-demand transportation platform, has launched a dedicated environmental impact fund with seed capital of €10 million...
Nigeria’s Interswitch Group confirms Visa deal, becomes real African unicorn
Interswitch Group, a payments firm digitising payments in Nigeria and other countries in Africa, has confirmed the investment deal with...
Visa is paying $200m for a 20% stake in Interswitch ahead of a London IPO
Visa is in final stages to acquire a stake in Nigeria's Interswitch, in a deal that will make the pan-African...
Gozem, Togo’s motorcycle booking app, partners Total for cashless payments
Gozem, a transport app using motorcycles, auto-rickshaws, and cars launched in November 2018, in Togo and Benin, has partnered Total...
Frontier Car Group, Cars45 parent firm, raises $400 million from OLX Group
Frontier Car Group, the parent firm of Cars45 has raised $400 million from OLX Group, a Prosus classifieds business. Prosus...
Tizeti Launches High-Speed 4G LTE to Accelerate Broadband Penetration in Nigeria
Tizeti, West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet service provider, has launched its 4G LTE network in Nigeria, with the plans to...
Greenlight Planet partners Vodacom, Orange and Telma to expand across Africa
Greenlight Planet, a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar systems firm, has partnered with Vodacom in Tanzania, Orange in Burkina Faso and Telma...
FinChatBot First SA Startup selected for New York Acceleration Program, INV Fintech
FinChatBot, a South African financial chat bot has been selected to join INV Fintech, Bank Innovation’s sister accelerator program. Finchat...
uKheshe to reward 20 micro-businesses with R25 000
uKheshe, South Africa’s QR cash card and microtransaction platform will reward 20 entrepreneurs with R25 000 this summer in its...
Enda, a Kenyan athletic shoe startup raises funding to become Africa’s Nike
Enda, the first high-performance running footwear brand made in Africa, has raised a seed funding round to support its production,...
Andela Launches Egypt as First Fully Remote Center
Andela, the pan-African distributed software engineering training firm has today launched its operations in Egypt, with its first fully remote...
Interswitch Acquires 60% of e-Clat to Enter the Lucrative Health-Tech Space
Interswitch, a payments firm in Nigeria and other African countries has acquired e-Clat Healthcare Limited, a Nigeria-based health technology company...
With $350,000 Kenya’s Asilimia wants to help SMEs save for and access essential services
Asilimia, a Nairobi-based payment and micro-savings platform helping small businesses save for and access essential services such as insurance, bank...
How to increase mobile app security during ap development
In this era of technology, mobile phones have conceded the par of luxury and entered into the realm of necessity. ...
Txapita Mobility, a bus monitoring platform wins Seedstars Maputo
Txapita Mobility, who installs tracking devices in Public Transport allowing passengers, from their cell phone, know the location and time...
Founder Institute Opens Applications in Accra to Accelerate Startup Founders
The Founder Institute, a global pre-seed accelerator and headquartered in Silicon Valley, has opened applications for its Accra 2020 program....
TLcom wants to help Africa’s female tech founders break the glass ceiling
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, wants to build a collaborative network of Africa’s female tech founders. To get...
Azuri’s GrowFast solar irrigation pump finalist in Global LEAP Award
Azuri's GrowFast solar irrigation system has been named a finalist in the 2019 Global LEAP Awards, currently being piloted in Uganda...
Startupbootcamp AfriTech selects top 10 African startups for its 2019 pitch
Startupbootcamp AfriTech 2019 Demo Day has selected top ten startups to pitch for its third edition of the SBC AfriTech...
Wefarm raises $13 million to scale its smallholder farmer marketplace
Wefarm, a Nairobi and London-based startup digital network for small-scale farmers, has raised $13 million in a Series A financing...
With a $2m war-chest, Sendy bets on AI to reduce the cost of logistics in Kenya
Sendy, which is fresh from raising a $2m round has announced it will now be using artificial intelligence to improve...
Sendy raises $2m from Goodwell Investments to simplify logistics in East Africa
Sendy, an on-demand delivery platform based in Nairobi, Kenya has raised $2m from Goodwell Investments to improve access of lower-income groups...
Volkswagen and Siemens launch an electric car project in Rwanda
Volkswagen and Siemens have launched an electric mobility car project in Rwanda as part of the Moving Rwanda Initiative. Volkswagen...
Glocaltravel.io named “Best Startup in Zimbabwe” by Seedstars
Glocaltravel.io, with Africabookings.com who aims to be the largest provider of live inventory and bookings for a range of accommodation...
MAN Impact Accelerator 2019 accepts Nigeria’s drone startup Arome & Uganda’s electric boda Zem.bo
MAN Impact Accelerator has accepted Nigeria's drone startup Arome & Uganda's electric boda Zem.bo into its 2019 and third cohort...
Pineapple, SA’s peer-to-peer insurance provider wins $1.5m from VentureClash Global Venture Challenge
Pineapple, a South Africa–based peer-to-peer insurance provider, has won the top investment of $1.5 million at VentureClash Global Challenge, organized...