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Tala Raises $110m to launch in West Africa, enter micro health insurance
Tala, a Paypal-backed Microloans startup, has raised $110 million in its Series D round to expand in India, where it...
Here are the 22 women entrepreneurs named finalists for 2019 AWIEF Awards
Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF), has selected 22 women entrepreneurs as finalists in its annual awards in a...
Must have handbags and shoulder bags in 2019
How you create a cool appearance with a decent bag In 2019 you go for a decent bag. Decent? YES!...
Meet Nigeria’s Mofoluke Ayoola, the RedViolet Company CEO launching a DIY home furnishing startup in the UK
Nigeria's Mofoluke Ayoola, who started RedViolet Company as a traditional interior design company, in 2010, is set to launch Furnisee,...
Seedstars opens applications for the “$10K DOEN Land Restoration Prize”
Seedstars, together with the DOEN Foundation (Stichting DOEN), a Dutch fund supporting green initiatives, has launched the DOEN Land Restoration...
Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Selects 7 Icons as 2019 Judges
Jack Ma's Africa Netpreneur Prize, a prize competition for African entrepreneurs has selected 7 esteemed entrepreneurs, investors, and businesspeople from...
Nigeria’s Inlaks Launches ‘thehatch’ Innovation Lab For Fintech Startups
Nigeria's Inlaks, a 1982-established systems integrator in the Banking, Telecommunication, Oil and Gas, Power, Utilities and the Distribution sectors has...
Naspers leads a $125m round into India’s Social Commerce Marketplace Meesho
Naspers, the South African ecommerce and media conglomerate, has led a $125 million funding round into social commerce marketplace Meesho...
Impact Nomads is a new impact-based co-working program for anyone who can work remotely
Kilifi-based Distant Relatives, an Ecolodge & Backpackers hostel in Kilifi Kenya has announced the launch of Impact Nomads, an impact-based co-working...
GSMA receives £38m funding from DFID to drive digital identity & inclusion
The GSMA recently signed a thirty-eight million-pound partnership with UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) for 'Inclusion, Innovation and Scale.’...
Tinder parent firm Match Group acquires Egypt’s dating site Harmonica
Match Group has acquired Cairo-based Harmonica, a dating app focused on the Muslim demographic globally to double down on the...
Kenya’s Ilara Health raises $735K from ShakaVC, Chandaria Capital for its affordable diagnostics platform
Ilara Health, a Nairobi-based affordable diagnostics platform targeting over 500 million people in Africa, has raised $735,000 to onboard new...
NOTS Solar to Invest $70M in PayGo Solar Home Systems Manufacturing in Rwanda
NOTS Solar Lamps, an Amsterdam-based impact enterprise has signed a deal with the Government of Rwanda to accelerate the provision...
AfriLabs partners African Union to train 1m African entrepreneurs by 2021
AfriLabs, a pan-African network of 158 technology and innovation centers in 45 African countries has partnered with the African Union...
JUMO appoints new Africa CEO to support its expansion into new markets
JUMO, a fintech platform helping firms to offer savings, lending and insurance products to entrepreneurs in emerging markets, has appointed...
Nigeria’s Rubi Health & Ghana’s Developers in Vogue selected into Vodafone Institute’s F-LANE accelerator
Nigeria's Rubi Health & Ghana's Developers in Vogue have been selected into Vodafone Institute's F-LANE accelerator beating 280 start-ups from...
AIIM raises $320m to invest in power, transport & energy ventures in Africa
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), an infrastructure-focused private equity fund manager, has raised $320 million from investors from Africa, Europe...
Next Einstein Forum announces new cohort of 25 Fellows
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) today announced its third Class of 25 scientists contributing to solve Africa's and the world's...
Abuja’s iSabiDeliver is ramping up its vigor to expand across Nigeria
iSabiDeliver, an online on-demand delivery service based in Abuja and Ibadan is ramping up its operations to expand to more...
Pezesha, Innova among 3 fintech startups admitted to Kenya’s Regulatory Sandbox
Pezesha Africa, a micro-lending marketplace and Innova Limited, a cloud-based analytics platform for investors, have been admitted into the Capital...
Lori hires former EchoVC Partners & Quona Capital execs to drive pan-African expansion
Lori has hired Uche Ogboi as its Chief Operating Officer and Efayomi Carr as Head of Strategic Finance effective 29...
This blockchain startup founded by a Somalian developer has raised $3.5m to help end modern slavery
Lumachain, an Australian blockchain platform founded by Jamila Gordron has raised $3.5 million in a funding round led by the...
Here are the 12 African Startups Battling for MIT’s $1.6m 2019 Inclusive Innovation Challenge
Kenya's Shortist, Flare, Egypt's Taskty, Ghana's Bloom Impact, Nigeria's Farmerline and South Africa's Inclusivity Solutions are among the 12 African...
10 tips for startup success-Mofoluke Ayoola, RedViolet Company
By Mofoluke Ayoola, CEO and founder of RedViolet Company, an on-demand interior design company based in Lagos, Nigeria Entrepreneurs are saddled with...
Kenyan B2B Agritech Startup Taimba Gets $ 100K in Funding from Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS
US based impact investor Gray Matters Capital has invested $100,000 into Nairobi-based Taimba, a mobile-based cashless platform connecting rural small scale farmers...
We restructured as a non-profit & never operated in Mauritius- Ubongo Kids
Tanzania's Ubongo Kids never operated in Mauritius and never repatriated any money to the tax haven, despite reports by ICJ...
GreenTec Capital Partners to Invest Up to €500K into Startups in Senegal
GreenTec Capital Partners has signed an MOU with the Senegalese General Delegation for the Acceleration of Entrepreneurship for Women and...
Kampala-based Baby Diaper Startup Kijani Raises Funding from RENEW’s Impact Angel Network
Kijani Baby or just Kijani, a washable diaper startup founded and led by husband and wife entrepreneurs Muigai Ndoka and...
CANAL+ Group Acquires ROK to Enhance Its African Content Portfolio
ROK, an IROKO+ incubated African film studio and international TV network, has been acquired by CANAL+ Group, comprising production, content...
Ovamba hits £105 million transactions, to expand across West Africa
Launched out of beta in 2013, Ovamba Solutions' transactions have hit an approximately 105 million Euro with the majority of...