US-based African-focused fintech Pngme, a financial data infrastructure and machine learning-as-a-service platform has raised $15 million in funding to allow financial institutions and fintechs to collect and aggregate financial data at scale. The $15 million (nearly £11 million) in Series A funding round was led by Octopus Ventures and joined ...
Cellulant, a digital payments company, has been granted permission to apply for a Payment Services Provider (PSP) license in Ghana. For banks, institutions, and the general public, the PSP License allows Cellulant to aggregate merchant services, process financial services, acquire merchants, deploy POS systems, and aggregate payments. In Ghana, Cellulant ...
NEX technologies, a UK-based Ghanaian startup founded by Ghanaian Austa Mireku Albright is set to launch earbuds, AirPods, and smartwatches in Ghana next month. NEX technologies aims to design and produce affordable consumer electronics primarily for the African market. Registered in England and Wales, the firm works with manufacturers in ...
Sumundi, Ghana’s retail management startup raises funding from GreenTec Capital to help retailers manage, grow, and sustain their businesses. Sumundi’s retail management platform aims to facilitate and promote Africa’s retailers with a suite of services to help run and grow a business. “Small shops, formal and informal, are a very ...
TalentsinAfrica.com has launched to connect Africans to new opportunities taking on Ringier One Africa Media's Jobberman and the rest with a $35,000 seed capital from GoodSoil Venture Capital and Twelve Spring Investment Group. Founded by Emmanuel Leslie Addae and Daniel Amoako Antwi, in March 2017, the platform began as an idea to help ...
Ghana's Kudobuzz has acquired RetailTower, an ecommerce product that allows merchants to list their products across multiple shopping engines in a mission to help merchants increase sales by making it simple for them to sell across multiple shopping engines. Kudobuzz, a saas tool that helps SMBs increase their sales with user generated content and ...
Ghana's Tonaton.com has partnered with various real estate developers to launch a development platform as the classifieds site moves into establishing itself as country's largest property vertical. The new portal tonaton.com/new-developments aims to help Ghanaians buy and sell property and increase Tonaton’s market share from being a general classifieds markertplace to a ...
In a bid to train and groom the next generation of Ghanaian-International businesses for both local and foreign investment, the Minister of Business Development, Mohammed Ibrahim Awal has launched "JOB STATION". Job station is the first co-working, incubator and accelerator space under the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP). According ...
After announcing it in September, IROKOtv is finally launching its kiosks across Nairobi Kenya and will over the next few weeks increasingly go live across the city in its pan-African expansion drive. In a blog post, Jason Njoku, founder and CEO IROKO said, "The big strategy for IROKOtv has been the ...
mPharma, a venture-backed startup with a simple mission to make prescription drugs in emerging markets easily accessible, and easily affordable has raised a $6.6 million Series A round to provide doctors, patients and pharmacists access to a network of high quality chronic disease medicines at sustainable prices. The round was led ...
Ghana's general classifieds site Tonaton has entered into the country's recruitment sector in a renewed focus to help recruiters find talent as well as up its revenues in the dynamic classifieds sector. Ghana’s Tonaton.com which is run by Saltside Technologies means “buy and sell” in Ghana’s Twi, and the jobs push is likely not a ...
meQasa.com, an online real estate portal has acquired Jumia House Ghana, for an undisclosed amount, firmly establishing the property portal as the country’s largest and most trusted. Jumia House has struggled after Rocket Internet merged the platforms into one to create Africa's largest classifieds group but the results have not ...
Ghana's TroTro TV has launched to provide business with an exciting way in which to engage with new customers across the country. With 100’s of installed TV screens across our transport network, the firm says it can help boost businesses brand awareness and maximize profits connecting SMEs to millions of ...
IROKOtv has finally launched its operations in Accra, Ghana, weeks after TechMoran announced the firm's move to double down on Kenya and Ghana. IROKOtv has rolled out over 25 bright pink kiosks across Accra, that will enable users to download Ghanaian and Nigerian movies and TV series directly onto their mobile devices, ...
Over the weekend, we chatted with Abraham Omani Quaye, a Ghanaian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Farmart, an agri-marketplace that allows you to shop farm produce at a very cheap price, and right from the source. So far, he has been helping over 1000 smallholder farmers cut their post ...
High school friends drawn from Ghana and Kenya walked away with top prizes on Monday night at the annual Chattanooga competition that showcases startup businesses. The three young men Jason Oteng-Nyame ( Ghana), and Gabriel Wamunyu and Anthony "Tony" Wamunyu Maina, (Kenya) are the founder of Asili Labs that won ...
In a time where the only Agricultural practice people understand is farming, this startup has decided to take a different turn. In Ghana, and even Africa at large, farmers run the risk of losing their farm animals, especially when they wander away. This would lead to a who lot of ...
Newly launched Collegeinghana.com, an online platform that shares vital admission information on higher education in Ghana, has been shortlisted among top 150 innovations developed by young innovators under the age of 30 by the World Youth Summit Awards. The shortlisted projects which are from 90 countries, will be announced and ...
Seven new tech hub members have joined AfriLabs in a move that is expected to increase the AfriLabs footprint in Africa. AfriLabs is a network of 60 plus technology and innovation hubs across Africa. It has grown steadily since launching in 2011 to cover 27 African countries. "We are beyond ...
Ghana's ALEXpay, a product of Allied Exchange Africa, has launched to end the lack of cross-network money transfer across the country and expand across Africa where mobile money is king. The platform is targeting offline vendors, online merchants, government agencies and and individual customers to integrate their mobile payments with ...
Chalkboard Education, a Ghana-based mobile learning company, has closed $236,072 (EUR 200’000) in expansion financing from Jacobs Foundation to further expand its operations in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, including increasing access to its mobile learning tools for rural and remote populations. “Education technology is a very important tool for accompanying ...
Amsterdam-based SheFarms is raising $8.2K to supply 120 female farmers in Ghana with smartphones to open up more local and international markets for their products as majority of other businesses go digital. Founded by Tiambi Simms and Margot Barreveld, SheFarms has already raised €2,200 of its €7,200 target from investors on Dutch-based crowdfunding ...
King Baudouin Foundation has named three young, African tech-entrepreneurs winners of its 2016-17 African Development Prize. The winners, founders of BarefootLaw (Uganda), Farmerline (Ghana) and Kytabu (Kenya) were awarded on June 20th 2017 at a biennial award ceremony, in the presence of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium at ...
GetRooms, an online room booking platform for students and travellers has launched in Ghana in a move expected to simplify the student hostel booking process which is majorly offline and undisrupted while the majority of students are tech savvy. Founded by Kekeli and Abigail Buckner, GetRooms, which grew out of ...
CowTribe is an on-demand platform for farmers in Ghana to search for and call a veterinary doctor whenever their cattle falls sick especially in rural areas where access to veterinary services is a major problem. Co-founded by Awin Peter, Alima Bawah, Sampson Adotey Jnr and Sylvester Adjapong, CowTribe's Shepherd Platform ...
PayGo solar firm Azuri Technologies has appointed Vera Nwanze as its General Manager for Nigeria and Ghana, as the company continues to grow its presence in the region. Her appointment comes just a few months after the firm partnered with the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) to launch its ...
Maize is an important cereal or staple in Ghana. It is consumed by nearly every household. The essence of this cereal can't be overstated as the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) emphasizes that maize accounts for more than 50% of the country's total cereal production. The IFPRI further explained ...
Silicon Valley’s VC fund & startup accelerator, 500 startups, is set to host the inaugural African edition of their world renowned Geeks on a Plane program alongside a select group of Silicon Valley investors and ecosystem stakeholders in Lagos, Nigeria then later to Accra, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. According to ...
In Ghana, UNICEF estimates that 57% of children under 5 are anemic, 23% are stunted, and 30,000 children suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition annually. This doesn’t just affect children physically - the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders who are in school now but don’t have the right nutrition have ...
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has partnered with Singularity University (SU) to launch the SingularityU Global Impact Challenge in West Africa to spur moonshot innovations to solve world’s greatest global challenges. The two aims to help entrepreneurs develop solutions to problems in energy, environment, food, shelter, space, water, disaster ...
