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| 30.07.2025 | The Grace Hopper Effect: A conference set this U.S immigrant on a quest to close the gender gap in African tech | In September 2017, Gabriella Uwadiegwu stepped into the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Florida, and saw the future. The hall, packed with 25,000 women attending that year’s Grace Hopper Celebration, pulsed with life. The Grace ... |
| 07.04.2025 | After 16 years, Paga is building a financial ecosystem of three businesses | As we head to his office on a hot Friday morning in Lagos, Tayo Oviosu, the CEO of Paga, likens himself to a duck—calm on the surface but paddling furiously underneath. A couple of days from when we meet, his fintech startup will turn 16. P... |
| 06.08.2024 | VertoFX Appoints Dr. Austin Okpagu as Nigeria Country Manager | VertoFX, the global financial technology firm delivering enterprise grade cross-border payments, FX and banking solutions across emerging markets, has announced the appointment of Dr. Austin Okpagu as its first Country Manager for Nigeria. ... |
| 18.07.2024 | Linda Rottenberg’s visit to Nigeria showcases commitment to tech innovation and entrepreneurship | Linda Rottenberg, Endeavor’s Global CEO, recently visited Nigeria from 6-9 of July 2024, marking a successful series of events that underscored the country’s vibrant tech ecosystem and entrepreneurial spirit. Organized by Endeavor Nigeria, ... |
| 08.07.2024 | The Rise of African Tech Communities | The rise of tech communities in Africa represents a dynamic and rapidly growing sector that is transforming the continent’s economy, fostering innovation, and addressing local challenges with technological solutions.
Across various regions,... |
| 06.06.2024 | BetKing and Paga Collaborate to Streamline Secure Payments, Ensuring Effortless Transactions | BetKing, a leading sports betting and entertainment platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Paga, a prominent fintech company, aimed at revolutionizing user experience. Through this collaboration, users can now seamlessly and s... |
| 08.08.2022 | #TechCEO: Meet Nigeria's Fintech Pioneer Tayo Oviosu, CEO of Mobile Payments Platform 'Paga' | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 08 August 2022, 10:08 am
There has been an ongoing movement among politicians and entrepreneurs to achieve financial inclusion for the citizens of Nigeria. And Tayo Oviosu is one of those people.
Oviosu is t... |
| 16.02.2022 | Twitter: Ethereum Blockchain Now Accessible to Send Tips, Opens Platform for Different Channels | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 16 February 2022, 08:02 pm
Twitter is now allowing the Ethereum blockchain on its platform for users to send tips and show support to different content creators and influencers on social media. The company also br... |
| 08.12.2021 | Techpoint Awards 2021: And the nominees are… | Share this article:
[Updated on December 15, 2021]: Payourse requested to be removed as a finalist in The Most Outstanding Crypto Exchange category.
[Updated on December 14, 2021]: The Most Outstanding Logistics Startup 2021 was renamed Mos... |
| 02.07.2021 | Africa’s fintech sector grows and matures as investments skyrocket | Share this:
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| 09.06.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [09/06/2020] | The Covid-19 pandemic is set to plunge the world into the worst recession since the Second World War, the World Bank announced yesterday.
This, as SA food delivery startup UCook has raised more than R1-million to fund food supplies to comm... |
| 09.06.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [09/06/2020] | The Covid-19 pandemic is set to plunge the world into the worst recession since the Second World War, the World Bank announced yesterday.
This, as SA food delivery startup UCook has raised more than R1-million to fund food supplies to commu... |
| 09.03.2020 | Nigerian fintech signs strategic partnership with Visa | Lagos-based mobile payments firm Paga has entered into a partnership with Visa.
Paga, which was founded in 2009 by Tayo Oviosu (pictured above), made the announcement in a blog post on Medium today.
The tech company said the strategic partn... |
| 09.03.2020 | Nigerian fintech signs strategic partnership with Visa | Lagos-based mobile payments firm Paga has entered into a partnership with Visa.
Paga, which was founded in 2009 by Tayo Oviosu (pictured above), made the announcement in a blog post on Medium today.
The tech company said the strategic par... |
| 08.03.2020 | Visa partners with Paga on payments and fintech for Africa and abroad | Visa has entered a partnership with Nigeria based startup Paga on payments and technology.
Founded in Lagos, Paga scaled its fintech business in West Africa, before targeting expansion in Ethiopia and Mexico.
The startup has created a multi... |
| 03.02.2020 | Africa Roundup: Trump’s Nigeria ban, Paga’s acquisition and raises, Flutterwave’s $35M and Sendy’s $20M | The first month of the new year saw Africa enter the fray of U.S. politics. The Trump administration announced last week it would halt immigration from Nigeria — Africa’s most populous nation with the continent’s largest economy and leading... |
| 23.01.2020 | Nigerian mobile payments firm Paga acquires software development company Apposit | Lagos-based mobile payments firm Paga has acquired US-based software development firm Apposit.
Although it is based in the US, Apposit primarily operates from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
It’s not immediately clear how much Paga acquired Apposi... |
| 23.01.2020 | Nigerian mobile payments firm Paga acquires software development company Apposit | Lagos-based mobile payments firm Paga has acquired US-based software development firm Apposit.
Although it is based in the US, Apposit primarily operates from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
It’s not immediately clear how much Paga acquired Appo... |
| 22.01.2020 | Nigerian payments company, Paga acquires long-term Ethiopian software partner, Apposit | Share this article:
The relationship between Nigerian mobile payments company, Paga and Ethiopian software development outfit, Apposit began since the former’s inception in 2009.
Tayo Oviosu and Eric Chijioke, CEO and CTO of Pagatech respec... |
| 21.01.2020 | Nigeria’s Paga acquires Apposit, confirms Mexico and Ethiopia expansion | Nigerian digital payments startup Paga has acquired Apposit, a software development company based in Ethiopia, for an undisclosed amount.
That’s just part of Paga’s news. The Lagos based startup will also launch its payment products in Mexi... |
| 10.01.2020 | Nigerian mobile payment company, Paga, hires Ian Cleverly as its Group chief financial officer | Share this article:
Nigerian mobile payment company Paga has a new chief financial officer. The company announced that it has hired Ian Cleverly, who previously served the same role at Maistro Plc, a business-to-business marketplace for onl... |
| 02.10.2019 | OEverything: Can OPay dominate Nigeria’s fintech market? | They’re everywhere, green and hard to miss. You’ve probably used one of their services or perhaps you haven’t. Not just yet. But you’ve heard of them and seen their billboards around town. OPay landed quietly in Nigeria in 2018 as a payment... |
| 23.08.2019 | Remember the last mile: How OPay’s motorcycles are increasing financial inclusion | Bundling a variety of services into a super-app with a cash wallet is OPay’s offering in Nigeria, and it appears to be the company’s strategy to dominate fintech in the country and deliver on its mantra of financial inclusion.
To drive adop... |
| 14.06.2019 | Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on | Fintech is one of the most attractive tech sectors for investment in Africa — and Nigeria, together with South Africa and Kenya, is leading the way on the continent when it comes to the number of hot fintech investments.
A report (opens as ... |
| 14.06.2019 | Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on | Fintech is one of the most attractive tech sectors for investment in Africa — and Nigeria, together with South Africa and Kenya, is leading the way on the continent when it comes to the number of hot fintech investments.
A report (opens as... |
| 19.12.2018 | Endeavor selects eight African entrepreneurs to join organisation | Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, has selected eight African entrepreneurs to join the prestiguous organisation.
The selection was made at Endeavor’s 84th International Selection ... |
| 19.12.2018 | Endeavor selects eight African entrepreneurs to join organisation | Endeavor, a non-profit organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, has selected eight African entrepreneurs to join the prestiguous organisation.
The selection was made at Endeavor’s 84th International Selection P... |
| 03.10.2018 | Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise $99M in VC | 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
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| 11.09.2018 | Paga raises $10m fund to launch in Ethiopia, Mexico, and The Philippines | Nigeria’s mobile payments firm Paga has received $10 million from the Global Innovation Fund to launch in Ethiopia, Mexico, and the Philippines with its iOS, Android, and USSD apps.
The series B2 investment of $10 million was led by the Glo... |
| 07.09.2018 | Nigerian fintech Paga raises $10m in round led by Global Innovation Fund | Nigerian mobile payments company Paga has raised $10-million in a Series-B funding round led by London-based Global Innovation Fund.
Impact investors Goodwell Investments, Unreasonable Capital and Omidyar Network, along with Mauritius-based... |
| 07.09.2018 | Nigerian fintech Paga raises $10m in round led by Global Innovation Fund | Nigerian mobile payments company Paga has raised $10-million in a Series-B funding round led by London-based Global Innovation Fund.
Impact investors Goodwell Investments, Unreasonable Capital and Omidyar Network, along with Mauritius-base... |
| 06.09.2018 | With a $10 million round, Nigeria’s Paga plans global expansion | 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
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| 05.07.2018 | Paga joins global Fintechs to accelerate digital services | Tayo Oviosu, CEO, Paga
Nigeria’s digital financial services provider – Paga, has joined a unique alliance of over 50 Fintech investors and digital finance innovators, who convened at Amsterdam to launch investor guidelines that are aimed at... |
| 01.06.2018 | ‘Playing patient investor, Omidyar has not made many exits from $1.3bn portfolio’ [Updated] | Philanthropic impact investor Omidyar Network has invested close to $1.3-billion* in non-profit and for-profit ventures globally since it was founded in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
But an investment principal at the fund confesses ... |
| 01.06.2018 | ‘Playing patient investor, Omidyar has not made many exits from $1.3bn portfolio’ [Updated] | Philanthropic impact investor Omidyar Network has invested close to $1.3-billion* in non-profit and for-profit ventures globally since it was founded in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
But an investment principal at the fund confesses... |
| 08.06.2017 | Nigeria’s Paga, MFS Africa in cross-border remittance partnership | Nigeria’s leading mobile payments company, Paga is following up its recent cross-border remittance partnership with TerraPay and MoneyTrans with another one with MFS Africa.
The partnership with MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African fintech com... |
| 11.05.2017 | ‘Nigeria’s high cost of doing business is holding back acquisition of startups’ | Nigeria’s recession should have made the acquisitions of startups more affordable for foreign firms — but instead the creation companies and building of new products has slowed because of the high cost of operating there, says Nigerian tech... |
| 11.05.2017 | ‘Nigeria’s high cost of doing business is holding back acquisition of startups’ | Nigeria’s recession should have made the acquisitions of startups more affordable for foreign firms — but instead the creation companies and building of new products has slowed because of the high cost of operating there, says Nigerian tech... |
| 05.04.2017 | What you should know about accelerating your startup in Nigeria | Share this article:
Editor’s Note: This article is not intended to paint incubator/acceleration hubs in the negative light but, if one intends to build a tower, it is imperative to count the costs — from start to finish — weigh the options,... |
| 17.02.2017 | TechCabal daily: Peeping Toms and monitoring spirits | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| 13.02.2017 | Kudi wants to make it easier to pay bills in places where internet access is limited | Making payments and sending money to friends and family in Nigeria can be cumbersome. Y Combinator-backed Kudi, which recently launched in Nigeria, is aiming to make it easier for people to pay bills and pay each other via messaging. At its... |
| 08.03.2016 | Interested in Fintech in Nigeria? Then you should read this | This article was written by Ade Olabode, and was first published on his Medium page.
If there’s one area that a lot of people agree has the potential to impact a lot of Nigerians; it’s Fintech. While there’s no universally accepted definiti... |
| 20.01.2016 | Payments platform, Paga announces partnership with Uber Lagos | Nigerian payments platform, Paga, has announced a partnership with transport network company, Uber. The partnership will give riders the option to pay using local debit cards, without facing any of the inconveniences brought about by Nigeri... |
| 13.01.2016 | 7 key Nigerian Tech CEOs of 2015 | Share this article:
The year 2015 saw the drive and resilience of leaders in the Nigerian Tech industry, who led their organisations through a challenging year. These individuals have shown that it’s not the challenges that hinder productiv... |
| 11.12.2015 | Fintech’s Five Emerging Powerhouse Markets Are At A Crossroads | Toby Triebel Contributor
Toby Triebel is the CEO and co-founder of Spotcap.
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Fintech’s Five Dark-Horse Cities
Accenture has warned local banking communities in Asia to wake up: It took just nine months for inve... |
| 06.10.2015 | Nigeria’s person-to-person money transfer company Paga bags $13m | The Nigerian person-to-person money transfer company, Paga, has secured US$13-million from renowned international investment firms Adlevo Capital, Omidyar Network, Goodwell West Africa, Acumen Fund, and Capricorn Investment Group. Jeremy St... |
| 06.10.2015 | Why Paga Must Always Be Raising | Tayo Oviosu, founder and CEO of Paga was one of the speakers at the angel investor bootcamp hosted by ABAN at DEMO Africa. An angel investor himself, he was there to speak to other angels, some of whom had just taken up the funding halo, ab... |
| 06.10.2015 | Nigeria’s person-to-person money transfer company Paga bags $13m | The Nigerian person-to-person money transfer company, Paga, has secured US$13-million from renowned international investment firms Adlevo Capital, Omidyar Network, Goodwell West Africa, Acumen Fund, and Capricorn Investment Group. Jeremy St... |
| 04.09.2015 | Paga and three other Nigerian startups band up to launch Shoppey, a turnkey digital storefront for SMEs | Paga, ACE, Cousant and Anozim owned by former Konga marketing exec, Onyeka Akumah, have teamed up to launch an online storefront for small e-commerce companies, Shoppey. It’s a ready-made catalog of customizable digital storefronts that can... |
| 27.07.2015 | Meet Some Of The Lagos Luminaries Shaping Nigeria’s Tech Scene | President Barack Obama may be the most famous citizen of the United States traveling around Africa this week, but he’s not the only one.
It’s nearly 4:30 in the morning here in Lagos and I’m too excited to sleep. Later today I’m going to ge... |
| 23.07.2015 | The Rise Of Silicon Savannah And Africa’s Tech Movement | 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 ... |
| 15.04.2015 | 21 Nigerian Tech CEOs at the Top of Their Game | Techcabal takes a look at 21 of the country’s tech entrepreneurs who are at the top of their game and are making some serious waves in the tech space.
They have demonstrated effective management capabilities, defined the local ecosystem, se... |
| 26.02.2015 | Paga payment service launches new app in Nigeria | Share this:
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| 25.02.2015 | #GetLocal in Lagos this week at Social Media Week | Share this:
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| 20.11.2014 | 16 Bitcoin startups investor Tim Draper has personally funded | Updated at 6:06 p.m. Pacific to add startups to the list, thanks to some help from Draper himself.
Silicon Valley venture-capital veteran Tim Draper has consistently been blunt about his bullishness on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
“I am a bi... |
| 15.01.2014 | Disrupt everything: 22 Nigerian startups and problems worth solving | Nigeria’s startup scene is one of the most vibrant on the African continent. Nigerians are innovating in many areas, chasing the next big thing in a country where the audience is abundant and the opportunities are endless.
With an estimated... |
| 15.01.2014 | Disrupt everything: 22 Nigerian startups and problems worth solving | Nigeria’s startup scene is one of the most vibrant on the African continent. Nigerians are innovating in many areas, chasing the next big thing in a country where the audience is abundant and the opportunities are endless.
With an estimate... |
| 04.11.2013 | Fonenode Launches The First Telephony API For Nigeria | These days, tech startups are often either mobile apps or offline logistics businesses with a website. But every now and then, we get to see a pure play technology solution that is mostly held together by real code. Fonenode falls squarely ... |
| 02.08.2013 | 12 Kickass African startups worth getting excited about | I have decided that any old Joe can start a company. In fact all you have to do is have an idea. It doesn’t even have to be a good one. All you need is for a bunch of other Joes to want it. In Africa, all the Joes are starting their own bus... |
| 02.08.2013 | 12 Kickass African startups worth getting excited about | I have decided that any old Joe can start a company. In fact all you have to do is have an idea. It doesn’t even have to be a good one. All you need is for a bunch of other Joes to want it. In Africa, all the Joes are starting their own bus... |
| - | Nigeria’s Paga, MFS Africa in cross-border remittance partnership | Nigeria’s leading mobile payments company, Paga is following up its recent cross-border remittance partnership with TerraPay and MoneyTrans with another one with MFS Africa.
The partnership with MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African fintech com... |
