| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.04.2026 | Meet The Top 10 Indian Startup Investors Of Q1 2026 | SUMMARY
Stride Ventures retained its position as the most active startup investor in India, backing 38 startups including Branch, Magicpin, Gully Labs, and Swish
Other most active startup investors in the quarter included Black Soil, Peak X... |
| 16.03.2026 | Microfinance sector undergoing structural transformation in ticket size composition | - |
| 03.03.2026 | Ada Doubles YoY Growth as Demand for Agentic Customer Service Surges | Ada, the trusted AI-native customer experience company and creator of the Agentic Customer Experience (ACX) Operating Model, today announced more than 100% year-over-year revenue growth, marking a breakout year as enterprises transition fro... |
| 04.07.2025 | Nigeria: Okra Co-Founder Fara Ashiru Jituboh Exits As Startup Shuts Down | TLDR
Fara Ashiru Jituboh, co-founder and former CEO/CTO of Nigerian fintech Okra, has exited the company following its shutdown in May 2025
The closure comes months after the launch of Nebula, Okra's in-house naira-denominated cloud product... |
| 30.06.2025 | Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Opportunities, Challenges, and Regulatory Considerations | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept for the future; it is already reshaping how we manage, save, invest, and even borrow money. We now have chatbots helping with online banking, and complex algorithms making stock trading de... |
| 16.06.2025 | From concrete to code: How Mofe Ejegi went from Civil Engineering to building global mobile apps | In Nigeria’s dynamic tech ecosystem, few stories highlight the transformative power of self-learning and curiosity like that of Mofe Ejegi. A software engineer based in Delta State, Mofe currently works as a Senior Android Engineer at Banqu... |
| 28.05.2025 | Nigeria: The Standoff Between the Nigerian Government and Meta, Is Emblematic of a Broader Movement Reflecting the Growing Continental Push to Reclaim Regulatory Authority Over Global Tech Giants. | Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 22 May 2025.
Imagine waking up to find Facebook and Instagram inaccessible on your phone - not due to a... |
| 29.10.2024 | Football For Good: Cowrywise Combines Sports and Social Responsibility to Raise 1 Billion Naira to Support Education | Lagos, Nigeria – This weekend, Cowrywise held the inaugural Cowrywise Super Cup, a groundbreaking event uniting 12 corporate teams with a shared purpose to raise ₦1 billion to support underprivileged children’s access to quality education i... |
| 26.04.2024 | Save the Date: Lagos Startup Week 2024 is Back! | This is calling on all startup founders, investors, budding talents, and key stakeholders, to save the date and prepare to attend the biggest tech event in Africa.
Lagos Startup Week returns in July. Prepare for a week-long celebration of f... |
| 26.01.2022 | Branch MD, Dayo Ademola, talks digital banking ambitions in Nigeria | Running a startup is hard. Running a consumer-focused lending platform—used by more than 5 million people across four countries—during a historic global economic crisis is a near-impossible task. The management team of Branch International ... |
| 30.06.2021 | Inside Branch’s 20 percent interest investment push to beat Nigerian bank offerings | When Branch launched in Nigeria in 2017, it was a single product company with a money lending license to offer loans to individuals. Loans start from as low as ₦1,000 (~$2) and increase gradually up to ₦500,000 (~$1,200) as the borrower rep... |
| 21.06.2021 | 10 More Startups Leading The Way With CX | Building a company around customer experience puts brands on the path to long-term success. getty |
| 24.05.2019 | Leading African FinTechs To Take Center Stage At Africa Tech Summit London | Share this:
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| 15.04.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Monday, April 15, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, April 15.
Africa-focused mobile lending app Branch raises a whopping $170 million in funding. Branch International, a fintech app startup that offers loan... |
| 09.04.2019 | Branch International Raises $170M in Series C Financing | Branch International, a San Francisco, CA-based finance app for Africa, raised $170m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Foundation Capital and Visa (NYSE: V), with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Trinity Ventures, Formation 8... |
| 08.04.2019 | Daily funding roundup - April 8th, 2019 | Simudyne raised $6M; Jebbit landed $12M; VSCO secured $15M; RiskLens received $20.6M
Budbee: Budbee is a Stockholm-based IT startup tired of bad home deliveries - a last mile delivery experience suited for your needs. Budbee has raised €4.8... |
| 08.04.2019 | Branch raises $170M led by Foundation Capital and Visa, sets expansion | Branch International, a company whose mobile app delivers financial services in emerging markets, has raised $170 million in Series C financing, led by Foundation Capital and Visa, according to a company release.
Several existing investors ... |
| 08.04.2019 | Partnering with Visa, emerging market lender Branch International raises $170 million | The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announced a partnership with Visa to offer virtual, pre-paid debit cards to Branch client networks in Af... |
| 21.01.2019 | Финтехи, которых пока что нет в России | Роман Бузько делится подборкой 19 финтех-проектов в шести категориях, аналогов которых нет в России.
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| 30.12.2018 | African Fintech is still the preferred sector for global VCs to invest in | Share this:
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| 25.10.2018 | Payments space not over saturated in Africa argues Village Capital head | African fintech startups are beginning to branch out away from the payments space into other sub-sectors — such as agri-finance, insurtech and alternative credit scoring — a report by US-based venture capital (VC) firm Village Capital has f... |
| 25.10.2018 | Payments space not over saturated in Africa argues Village Capital head | African fintech startups are beginning to branch out away from the payments space into other sub-sectors — such as agri-finance, insurtech and alternative credit scoring — a report by US-based venture capital (VC) firm Village Capital has f... |
| 29.03.2018 | Branch International Raises $70M in Series B Funding | Branch International, a San Francisco, CA-based mobile branchless bank for emerging markets, raised $70m in Series B debt and equity funding.
The round – which brings total investment to $80m since its founding – was led by Trinity Ventures... |
| 28.03.2018 | This young lending startup just secured $70 million to lend $2 at a time | You don’t hear of many $2 loans in the United States, where $2 won’t buy you more than a chocolate bar. But in cities like Lagos, Nigeria, and Nairobi, Kenya, $2 has the buying power of roughly $40, making such “micro” loans useful when you... |
| 16.03.2018 | The Third Age of credit | Nik Milanovic Contributor
Nik Milanovic is a fintech and financial inclusion enthusiast, with a decade of work across mobile payments, online lending, credit and microfinance. The opinions expressed in his articles do not reflect those of h... |
| 14.11.2017 | Africa Roundup: Lori Systems wins BFX Africa, Andela raises $40M, Jumia lends to SMEs, Safaricom launches incubator | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| 10.10.2017 | Jumia expands its lending program for small businesses across Africa | Jumia, the dominant e-commerce company in sub-Saharan Africa, is expanding the small business loan program it launched earlier this year into every country where the company operates.
Working with the San Francisco-based lender Branch, Jumi... |
| 01.08.2017 | Juvo raises $40 million to bring financial inclusion to emerging markets | San Francisco-based startup Juvo wants to help mobile users in emerging markets improve their financial standing by combining data and identity to provide micro-loans. It’s an ambitious goal, and to help achieve it, the company has raised $... |
| 25.07.2017 | Jobs weekly: Check out available job vacancies this week | Share this article:
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| 13.11.2016 | What Asia Can Learn From Africa To Succeed in Fintech For Unbanked? | Facebook is currently considering acquiring mobile money giant M-Pesa in Kenya.
One month ago Visa payments network introduced a mobile-phone application to enable cashless transactions in Kenya too. The mVisa app will initially facilitate ... |
| 20.08.2016 | Developing a global financial architecture | Nik Milanovic Contributor
Nik Milanovic is a fintech and financial inclusion enthusiast, with a decade of work across mobile payments, online lending, credit and microfinance. The opinions expressed in his articles do not reflect those of h... |
| 31.03.2016 | Branch.co Nets $9.2M Series A Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Branch.co, a provider of mobile financial services in sub-Saharan Africa, has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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| 30.03.2016 | Branch.co raises $9.2 million to bring financial services where banks don’t go | San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round.
Branch’s free-to-download Android app i... |
| - | Banking the Unbanked: The Promise of FinTech | In a time where two billion people worldwide are living outside the financial system, we are entering a golden age for empowering the underbanked. Traditional banking is being expanded to reach every corner of the globe, and the FinTech ind... |
