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| 08.07.2025 | Chowdeck Acquires Mira, Bolstering Full‑Stack Tech Offering for Africa’s Food Businesses | Nigerian on-demand delivery startup Chowdeck has acquired Nairobi‑born POS platform Mira, marking a bold expansion beyond logistics into full-stack technology services for restaurants, supermarkets, and pharmacies across Africa. The deal’s ... |
| 25.07.2024 | SmallSmall Fair 2024: A Leap Towards Financial Inclusion in Nigeria**
** | ** The countdown to the SmallSmall Fair 2024 has begun. Scheduled for August 17 at the Pistis Conference Center in Lekki, Lagos, this event is more than just a fair; it’s a catalyst for change. The fair aims to reshape the financial landsca... |
| 25.07.2024 | Risevest's Bold Move: Expanding Horizons in East Africa**
** | ** In the fast-paced world of fintech, strategic moves can redefine markets. Risevest, a Nigerian startup, is on the brink of a significant expansion. The company is in talks to acquire Hisa, a Kenyan platform that opens doors to U.S. stock... |
| 25.07.2024 | Techstars Faces Cultural Reckoning Amidst Leadership Changes**
** | ** In the fast-paced world of startups, culture is the backbone. It can make or break a company. Recently, Techstars, a prominent startup accelerator, found itself in the eye of a storm. David Cohen, the CEO and co-founder, acknowledged tha... |
| 19.07.2024 | Interswitch, Kora, and Fincra Join the List of Top Companies Sponsoring SmallSmall Fair 2024 | The excitement for the upcoming SmallSmall Fair 2024 is reaching new heights as leading financial technology companies, Interswitch, Kora, and Fincra, have officially partnered with SmallSmall as sponsors. Their participation underscores th... |
| 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, ... |
| 03.06.2024 | SmallSmall Announces Date for Nigeria’s First Installment Payment Fair | In a bid to bolster the economic resilience of Nigeria’s middle class, SmallSmall is proud to announce the launch of the first installment payment Fair in Nigeria.
Scheduled to hold in Lagos on August 17, 2024, the SmallSmall Fair will show... |
| 11.10.2023 | Data snapshot: Macro-headwinds put Africa’s normally resilient supply chain startups to the test | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 10.10.2023 | TLcom announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2023 | TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has officially announced its fifth annual Africa Tech Female Founder Summit, which will be held on Tuesday 14th November 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. The headline session will feature a fir... |
| 22.02.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #20: How to become a customer success manager
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| 09.02.2023 | How technology is helping African food businesses improve their prospects
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | Food inflation is one of Africa’s pressing problems. Can technology help Africans reduce the amount of money they spend on food?
The cost of food in Africa is unlike that on any other continent. According to the IMF, on average, Africans sp... |
| 03.10.2022 | Vendease has raised $30 million in a series A funding round | Vendease, a Y Combinator-backed digital platform that enables restaurants in Africa to make supply purchases, access banking services, and run their businesses, has raised $30 million in an equity and debt investment round to consolidate it... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $80m for virtual restaurants, Pat Brown’s new venture | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve unicorn status with a massive Series B round. Virtual restaurant/cloud kitchen startups like Not So Dark and CloudEats continue to rake in t... |
| 29.09.2022 | Data snapshot: Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo lead Africa agrifoodtech investment | Investments in African agrifoodtech startups reached record heights in 2021, according to AgFunder’s inaugural Africa-focused report in collaboration with BII and FMO.
But who were the key investors driving the $482.3 million invested in 20... |
| 27.09.2022 | Brief: Nigeria’s Vendease secures $30m Series A as it automates food supply in Africa | Vendease, a Nigerian fresh and processed food procurement platform on a mission to automate food supply in Africa, just secured $30 million in a Series A round that includes $20 million in equity and $10 million in debt.
The equity round wa... |
| 26.09.2022 | Vendease, a food procurement platform for African restaurants, nabs $30M led by Partech Africa and TLcom | When Vendease launched in January 2020, it wanted to solve the challenges and inefficiencies in Nigeria’s highly fragmented food sector using a marketplace model that connected suppliers and farms to restaurants and food businesses, with de... |
| 26.09.2022 | Vendease Raises $30M in Equity and Debt Funding | Vendease, a Lagos, Nigeria, Y Combinator-backed digital platform that allows restaurants in Africa to buy supplies, access financial services and power their business operations, raised $30m in an equity and debt funding round.
The series A... |
| 26.09.2022 | Vendease secures $30 million to transform procurement and business operations for African restaurants | Vendease, a Y Combinator-backed digital platform that allows restaurants in Africa to buy supplies, access financial services and power their business operations, has raised $30 million in an equity and debt funding round to consolidate its... |
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| 26.09.2022 | Vendease raises $30 million to offer procurement services across Africa | Image Source: Vendease
Following the effects of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, food prices in Nigeria have soared to a 17-year high. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the current inflation rate in Nigeria rose to 20.52% in A... |
| 26.09.2022 | Nigerian online marketplace, Vendease, closes a $30 million Series A round to expand its services to more restaurants | The company will use the funds to create new solutions and services to fuel growth across the food value chain. |
| 09.12.2021 | Vendease wants to be the Amazon for Nigeria’s food vendors | Tunde Kara and Olumide Fayankin grew up watching their parents — a farmer and a restaurant owner — grapple with inefficiencies in Nigeria’s food system. Caused by layer after layer of middlemen that deliver food from the farm to vendors to ... |
| 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... |
| 11.11.2021 | Nigerian drones and smart glasses, Rabbit’s $11m pre-seed, MFS Africa’s $100m Series C, and Flutterwave’s Disha acquisition | Share this article:
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Kifta Technologies’ defence tech gadgets
Equity-free financing by Lendable
Rabbit’s massive $11m pre-seed
Flutterwave’s Disha acquisition
MFS Africa’s $100m Series C Nigeria’s real-life 0... |
| 10.11.2021 | JUMO raises $120m, Healthlane launches in Nigeria, Chooya bags $950k, #StartupSouth recap, Ethiopia’s social media shutdown | Share this article:
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JUMO raises $120 million
Healthlane launches in Nigeria
Chooya bags $950k
Startup South recap
Ethiopia’s social media shutdown JUMO raises $120 million
Andrew Watkin-Ball. Source: ... |
| 27.10.2021 | Building a food supply operating system: the Vendease story | Vendease was founded in January 2020 by four friends: Tunde Kara (CEO), Olumide Fayankin (COO), Gatumi Aliyu (CPO) and Wale Oyepeju (CTO), to solve Africa’s food supply chain problems by digitising procurement processes, storage operations ... |
| 26.10.2021 | Vendease raises $3.2m to transform Africa’s restaurant supply chain | Nigerian-based AgriFood-tech start-up Vendease delivered approximately 100 000 tons of food to restaurants in September 2021, hitting a $12.9 million transaction volume.
The recently announced $3.2 million seed round led by Global Founders ... |
| 26.10.2021 | Vendease raises $3.2m to transform Africa’s restaurant supply chain | Nigerian-based AgriFood-tech start-up Vendease delivered approximately 100 000 tons of food to restaurants in September 2021, hitting a $12.9 million transaction volume.
The recently announced $3.2 million seed round led by Global Founders... |
| 25.10.2021 | Vendease, an online marketplace, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding | Vendease, an online marketplace that connects restaurants and other food businesses with manufacturers and farms directly, has secured $3.2 million in a seed round.
Global Founders Capital and a stellar group of VCs/Angels spearheaded the i... |
| 25.10.2021 | Vendease gets $3.2M to help hotels and restaurants buy food supplies in Africa | Vendease, an online marketplace that allows restaurants and other food businesses to buy supplies straight from manufacturers and farms, has raised a seed round of $3.2 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
The news is coming seven ... |
| 23.03.2021 | Most African YC-backed startups in today’s batch are focused on fintech | In Africa, Y Combinator is known to be a major backer of most of the continent’s well-known startups.
Two of the most talked-about in the last two quarters — Flutterwave and Paystack — are YC-backed. Their recent successes (Flutterwave’s bi... |
| 19.03.2021 | Backed by YC, Vendease is building Amazon Prime for restaurants in Africa | For small and mid-sized restaurants in Nigeria and most of Africa, food procurement can be a complex process to manage. The system is such that a business can easily run out of money or have considerable savings. Most restaurants don’t have... |
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