| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.09.2025 | Inside the failed courtship between Kenya BNLP startup Lipa Later and Nigeria’s Klump | In late 2022, Klump, an early-stage Nigerian buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup, got a surprise push from one of its investors. A contact connected to that backer suggested they talk to Kenya’s Lipa Later, which was quietly looking for partne... |
| 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... |
| 22.09.2022 | Bamboo, a Nigerian online brokerage firm, launches in Ghana | Bamboo, one of Nigeria’s leading online brokerage firms, has expanded into Ghana, making it the first trans-national west-African brokerage app. Through a partnership with 10th Capital Investments, a licensed Ghanaian firm, the more than 50... |
| 31.01.2022 | Tiger Global and Greycroft back Nigerian investment app Bamboo in $15M round | To buy a share in Amazon, you’d have to fork out almost $3,000. It’s a luxury very few can afford and despite the prospects of the trillion-dollar company or returns from its share price, it’ll take some contemplating to pay that full price... |
| 31.01.2022 | Nigerian investment platform Bamboo secures $15m Series A led by Tiger Global and Greycroft | Bamboo, an investment platform that allows Nigerians buy and trade US stocks in real-time from their mobile phones or computers, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by American venture capital firms Greycroft and Tiger Gl... |
| 31.01.2022 |
Greycroft Backs Startup In Nigeria
| In an investment a bit farther afield than usual, Los Angeles-based Greycroft Ventures is one of the lead investors in a Nigerian startup, Bamboo, as part of a $15M funding round. According to reports, the Series A was led by Greycroft and ... |
| 28.12.2021 | HubSpot : These 20 A/B Testing Variables Measure Successful Marketing Campaigns | Contrary to widespread practice, marketing analytics expands beyond email marketing and can be applied to practically every other inbound marketing tactic - social media, blogging, landing pages, lead generation, and lead nurturing. The pos... |
| 07.07.2021 | MAGIC Fund’s $30m raise, VC funding in Africa | Share this article:
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MAGIC Fund partners. Source: TechCrunch
MAGIC Fund, a collective of founders across the world, has an... |
| 06.07.2021 | VC firm, MAGIC Fund raises $30m to support early-stage startups globally | Share this article:
MAGIC Fund, an early-stage venture firm, has announced a $30 million Fund II raise to scale its global founders-backing-founders initiative.
Announced on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, this raise will support early-stage startup... |
| 12.04.2021 | ‘Wealthy Nigerians trade foreign securities. Low-income earners should be allowed too’ – Kola Aina | The directive of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued on the 8th of April, 2021 has been met with consternation and a straightforward (but hopefully simplistic) interpretation that the government is out to stifle inn... |
| 18.03.2021 | Yanmo Omorogbe: How Bamboo helps Nigerians create wealth through stock investing | In January this year, amateur day-traders sent the internet into a frenzy. They coordinated on Reddit to boost the share price of GameStop, a faltering company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Their platform for this operation was Rob... |
| 16.11.2020 | Morocco VC invests in three African tech startups | Morocco-based business to business (B2B) venture capital fund, Outlierz Ventures has invested in three innovative African tech startups, namely; YouVerify, Bamboo, and Healthlane.
Africa-focused seed fund invests in three fast-growing tech... |
| 16.11.2020 | Morocco VC invests in three African tech startups | Morocco-based business to business (B2B) venture capital fund, Outlierz Ventures has invested in three innovative African tech startups, namely; YouVerify, Bamboo, and Healthlane.
Africa-focused seed fund invests in three fast-growing tech ... |
| 11.11.2020 | How Future Africa invested $1 million across 9 African startups in Q3 2020 | Share this article:
Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching, and community for African innovators, just announced that it invested a total of $1 million in nine African startups in the third quarter of this year.
The firm ... |
| 02.08.2020 | How To Start A VC: Interview With Maya Horgan Famodu, Founder, Ingressive Capital | “I have an obligation to use my access to empower the next generation of |
| 18.03.2020 | Here are the African startups that pitched at Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 Demo Day | Share this article:
Twice a year, US seed accelerator, Y Combinator, invests $150,000 in selected startups, in exchange for 7% equity. Divided into winter and summer batches, these startups relocate to Silicon Valley for three months, finis... |
| 17.03.2020 | All the companies from Y Combinator’s W20 Demo Day, Part IV: Healthcare, Biotech, Fintech and Nonprofits | Y Combinator’s Demo Day was a bit different this time around.
As concerns grew over the spread of COVID-19, Y Combinator shifted the event format away from the two-day gathering in San Francisco we’ve gotten used to, instead opting to have ... |
| 17.03.2020 | Here are the African startups and Africa-focused firms from Y Combinator’s W20 Demo Day | Thirteen African and Africa-focused startups graduated yesterday in US accelerator Y Combinator‘s latest batch. Each can have netted $150 000 in funding.
Twice a year, the US seed accelerator invests $150 000 in selected startups, in excha... |
| 17.03.2020 | Here are the African startups and Africa-focused firms from Y Combinator’s W20 Demo Day | Thirteen African and Africa-focused startups graduated yesterday in US accelerator Y Combinator‘s latest batch. Each can have netted $150 000 in funding.
Twice a year, the US seed accelerator invests $150 000 in selected startups, in exchan... |
| 14.11.2019 | How to invest in US and other foreign stocks from Nigeria | Share this article:
Nigerians who want to grow their money without worrying about Naira fluctuations have to invest in dollar assets, but a look at these Quora’s search results detailing how to invest in the US stock market from Nigeria sho... |
| 08.11.2019 | Looking to invest in US stocks? These investment-tech startups are here to guide you | Don’t fight it: earning solely in naira is a drag on your aspirations to be a billionaire.
A currency that doesn’t massively slack under unpredictable political pressure is an essential store for your value. In general, more productive econ... |
| - | Rwanda partners with CcHub to launch Fintech Innovation Project | Tom Collins
February 10th 2022 •
Africa •
Technology & Information
Over the last decade, Rwanda has worked hard to establish itself as a tech hub. Despite only being a small market, it has aimed to attract serious investors and startups... |
| - | Bamboo’s bid to broaden retail investing stunted by CBN probe | Pelumi Salako
October 1st 2021 •
Nigeria, West Africa •
Finance & Services, Technology & Information
In August, a Federal High Court in Abuja granted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) an order to freeze the accounts of several Niger... |
