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VOOM Seeks $400,000 Pre-Seed to Digitize West Africa’s Auto Parts Trade

Sam Wakoba
MENA Edition

Algebra AI Raises $7 Million to Target Gulf’s Mid-Market AI Gap

Ronald Bwire
MENA Edition

Comfi Raises $65 Million to Expand SME Embedded Finance Platform

James Musoba
Startups

Shuttlers Marks 10 Years in Operation, Surpasses 10 Million Journeys

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Spiro Appoints Former Indofast Energy CEO Anant Badjatya as Group CEO...

James Musoba
Startups

MNT-Halan Hits $1.4 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round Led by...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

RemotePass Raises $17.4 Million to Expand Payroll Platform Into US and...

James Musoba
Startups

Blnk Secures $37 Million to Expand AI-Driven Consumer Lending in Egypt

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Knife Capital Exits VoxCroft Analytics in Redpoint Advisors Acquisition

Ronald Bwire
Startups

3IF Ventures Reaches $12 Million First Close to Back Africa’s Insurance...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Mastercard Report Finds 225 Million Africans With Disabilities Locked Out of...

Sam Wakoba

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Tech

SEACOM Adds Nairobi–Kampala Route to its Fibre Network

James Musoba
Tech

Nairobi to be Home of the First OpenAI Academy Initiative in...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

CapitalSage Agrees to Acquire Chimoney After Startup Moved Toward Wind-Down

Ronald Bwire
Startups

PawaPay Processes 3 Billion Mobile Money Transactions as Daily Volumes Double

Ronald Bwire
James Musoba

SEACOM Adds Nairobi–Kampala Route to its Fibre Network

SEACOM has activated a new terrestrial fibre route between Nairobi and Kampala, expanding its East African backbone as demand for regional data transit capacity accelerates. The corridor, which runs through Kisumu and connects major backbone nodes between Kenya and Uganda, increases the resilience and throughput of traffic flowing from Mombasa’s...