| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2025 | How to buy and ship the iPhone 17 from abroad
iPhone 17 prices abroad and how to order from international stores | Table of contents
How to buy and ship the iPhone 17 in Nigeria
How to buy and ship the iPhone 17 in Kenya
How to buy and ship the iPhone 17 in South Africa
The hack
The iPhone 17 lineup, featuring the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, a... |
| 17.05.2025 | The Rise of African Startups: Innovating for a Sustainable Future | Africa is a continent bursting with potential. From bustling markets to vibrant cultures, it is a land of opportunity. Today, a new wave of startups is emerging, harnessing technology to tackle age-old problems. These innovators are not jus... |
| 15.05.2025 | 10 African startups opening markets, cutting CO2 & seafarming no one’s talking about yet | Startups on Our Radar is a bi-weekly column that spotlights new startups across Africa taking unconventional approaches, filling fundamental gaps, and creating value in a way that feels fresh, focused, and meaningful. Know a startup we shou... |
| 26.02.2025 | Nigeria has been courting Flutterwave to list on the NGX since 2023. Can it afford the fintech? | Nigeria has been lobbying Flutterwave, its most valuable startup, to list on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) since 2023. The government believes a high-profile IPO could energise the country’s capital markets and attract other startups to follo... |
| 18.02.2025 | Madica Ventures Expands Horizons with New Investments in African Startups | Madica Ventures is making waves in the African startup ecosystem. With an investment of $800,000, the firm is backing four promising startups. This move signals a shift in focus toward businesses that demonstrate strong revenue traction. In... |
| 12.02.2025 | Madica invests $800,000 in four startups, expands footprint into North Africa | Madica, an Africa-focused early-stage investment firm, has backed four African startups with $800,000 in pre-seed funding. The investment comes as investors shift their focus toward businesses with strong revenue traction after early-stage ... |
| 22.01.2025 | SeamlessHR: Pioneering HR Tech in Africa with New Funding | In the bustling heart of Lagos, a revolution is brewing. SeamlessHR, a leading human resource technology company, has secured an additional $9 million in funding from the Gates Foundation and Helios Digital Ventures. This investment is not ... |
| 20.01.2025 | SeamlessHR raises $9 million Series-A extension from Gates Foundation and Helios Venture | SeamlessHR, a Nigerian company that helps businesses manage HR functions, has raised a $9 million Series-A extension round, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.
SeamlessHR raised a new round from the Gates Foundatio... |
| 02.01.2025 | Top 5 Kenyan startups to watch in 2025 | In 2024, TechCabal’s big stories on the Kenyan startup ecosystem signalled mixed fortunes for founders. While shutdowns and downsizes topped our headlines, some startups bucked the trend with millions in fundraising, mergers and acquisition... |
| 07.08.2024 | Advocating for better gender representation in Africa’s tech ecosystem | This article was contributed to TechCabal by June Barasa.
The lack of gender diversity in tech, especially in Africa, is a glaring issue that should no longer be ignored. As a woman who has spent years navigating this male-dominated industr... |
| 19.04.2024 | Innovative Early-Stage Startups to Win $10,000 Cash Prize & Japan Trip at Pitch2Win 4 | Lagos, Nigeria – 10 am GMT+1, 19th April 2024 – Nigeria’s tech scene is brimming with potential, but early-stage startups often face hurdles in securing funding and gaining recognition. Last year, after a very rigorous selection process, 15... |
| 26.03.2024 | Who calls the shots at TechStars-backed GetEquity? | GetEquity describes itself as a marketplace for investment products provided by investment managers globally. The TechStars-backed startup lets users pool their funds to reach the minimum amounts typically required for investments. It previ... |
| 05.01.2024 | Last year was a tough period for African growth-stage startups and 2024 presents a mixed bag | Last year presented a tough period for African tech startups. Venture capital was hard to bag (as predicted earlier), bridge and down rounds became the norm, and news of fire sales, layoffs and startup closures reverberated across the conti... |
| 02.01.2024 | Five trends to watch out for in African tech in 2024 | With 2023 now behind us, we look back on a year marked by strong economic headwinds and market upheavals. A cursory look at funding numbers shows that 2023 was a mixed bag. Venture capital (VC) funding fell by 41.7%, quarter-on-quarter, goi... |
| 18.12.2023 | Jumia Foods’ shutdown reflects food delivery’s high-growth, low-profit model | Jumia, an African e-commerce company, is closing down its food delivery arm, Jumia Foods, in the seven countries it operates by the end of this year. According to the company, it wants to focus on expanding its online retail business.
Jumia... |
| 30.11.2023 | Kenya’s startup bill is poised to be a catalyst for economic development | Kenya’s President, William Ruto, has announced that the Startup Bill 2022, aimed at creating jobs for Kenyan youth and offering tax breaks to startups, will be officially signed into law by April 2024. “By March, or April next year, we will... |
| 24.10.2023 | In the wake of Dash’s closure due to fraud, 5 investors talk due diligence in Africa | It’s been a tough year for tech startups globally. These struggles have manifested in layoffs, down rounds and complete shutdowns caused by current market conditions, utter mismanagement or fraud.
This August, SoftBank sued one of its portf... |
| 24.10.2023 | What is the future of agency banking in Nigeria? | One of the biggest news from Nigeria’s startup scene over the last week was that Kippa shut down its agency banking business and laid off 40 employees. At its core, Kippa is a bookkeeping and finance startup serving small businesses. But in... |
| 20.09.2023 | Exclusive: Nigerian fintech PayDay is looking to sell the company six months after $3m raise | Months after raising $3 million, the Nigerian fintech PayDay is in talks and hopes to conclude a sale of the company soon.
Six months after raising $3 million in a seed round led by Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech startup Payday is activel... |
| 25.08.2023 | As Africa’s struggling currencies hinder growth, should startups fundraise in local currencies? | For African startups that raised funds in foreign currencies, rising inflation and currency devaluation have affected how they report revenue to investors. Can raising funds in local currencies help reduce the effect?
A reversal of fortune—... |
| 29.07.2023 | Copia lays off staff for the third time
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| 22.07.2023 | Bundle Africa shuts down its exchange platform
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| 15.07.2023 | House of reps oppose CBN’s social media KYC requirement
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| 24.06.2023 | Samsung breaks the law in Kenya
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| 20.05.2023 | South Africa’s Eskom to pay citizens for saving electricity
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| 06.05.2023 | SA firm to pay $3.4 billion for crypto fraud
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| 06.04.2023 | Why are startup acts becoming more popular in Africa? | Whether or not you believe in the theory of evolution, you can’t deny that some of its concepts are fascinating. One example is convergent evolution— the process by which different species in different parts of the world evolve similar trai... |
| 01.04.2023 | Microsoft lays off Kenyan staff
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This edition brings you stories from Kenya where Meta remains embattled, betting firms are trying to evade tax and the government is trying to buil... |
| 20.02.2023 | Chipper Cash executes second round of layoffs less than three months after axing 12.5% of staff | African cross-border payments platform Chipper Cash conducted a second round of layoffs last Friday just 10 weeks after it cut approximately 12.5% of its workforce (affecting its engineering team the most).
The company’s VP of revenue share... |
| 12.01.2023 | African startups we lost in 2022 | Like a see-saw ride, the African tech ecosystem was full of ups and downs in 2022. First, we were ushered into the year by many sky-high projections, but as the months rolled by, these lofty projections were countered by unprecedented event... |
| 22.11.2022 | Corporate governance deficiencies can no longer be ignored in the African startup ecosystem
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Success! | Since TechCabal’s exposé on the toxic workplace culture at Nigerian payroll management company, Bento Africa, in March this year, more cases of workplace improprieties at startups have come to light.
In April, West Africa Weekly reported th... |
| 02.11.2022 | Techstars’ mentor on how Africa can rise to its calling as the continent of the future | The process of building companies in Africa is different from anywhere else in the world. Here, resources are scarce, problems are multifaceted, and factors beyond the founders’ control command the tune of the ecosystem. According to Eche E... |
| 27.10.2022 | What Clubhouse’s trajectory can teach African startups about frugality | 0
Throughout this year, numerous African startups have shut down due to a lack of funds to continue operating. Among these are Kenya-based Notify Logistics and Kune Foods, South Africa-based Snapt and most recently, Nigeria-based Kloud Comm... |
| 17.10.2022 | Weekly Economic Index: IMF predicts slower growth for Nigeria’s economy | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a slower growth for the Nigerian economy in 2022, changing its forecast from 3.2 per cent in July to 3.0 per cent. In its latest World Economic Outlook for October 2022 titled, “Countering... |
| 22.08.2022 | Weekly Economic Index: Ghana’s Cedi drops to become the world’s second worst-performing currency | According to a currency performance ranking by Bloomberg, Ghana’s cedi dropped 1.1 per cent to trade at 9 Gh cedi/$1. The fall of the currency is due to demand for forex as it overtook supplies during a period when high debts and low invest... |
| 18.01.2022 | Cashflow for African SMEs, Asset financing in Uganda | Share this article:
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Today I’m discussing:
Float’s $17m seed to power small businesses
Asaak’s raise to support asset financing Float wants to power small businesses in Africa
If you follow our newsletter closely, you probably obse... |
| 24.05.2021 | Ethiopia awards its first private telecoms licence to Vodafone consortium | Ethiopia has awarded one out of the two private telco licences it intends to award to a consortium that includes the Vodafone group. The consortium, which made a winning bid of $850 million, comprises Vodafone, Nairobi-based Safaricom Ltd, ... |
| 24.05.2021 | African Startups Going Global For Success | Gary Fowler is a serial AI entrepreneur with 17 startups and an IPO. He is CEO and co-founder of GSDVS.com and Yva.ai. |
| 04.05.2021 | Charting A New Course for Venture Capitals and Early-Stage Funding. | Adedeji Olowe
How do you build successful businesses? The short answer is it’s hard. Yet from the outside, many assume investing and building successful startups is a pretty straightforward activity. Their thinking: money conquers all chall... |
| 03.03.2021 | How has Covid-19 impacted South Africa’s venture capital space? | A little under a year ago, South Africa confirmed its first COVID-19 case. At the time, there was still hope that the country could isolate and contain the disease, allowing economic activity to continue as normal. Few could’ve guessed the ... |
| 03.03.2021 | How has Covid-19 impacted South Africa’s venture capital space? | A little under a year ago, South Africa confirmed its first COVID-19 case. At the time, there was still hope that the country could isolate and contain the disease, allowing economic activity to continue as normal. Few could’ve guessed the ... |
| 05.02.2021 | Nigeria’s Facebook Marketplace, Ghanaian $790k funding, Kenya’s lending woes | Share this article:
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Múyìwá Mátùlúkò here Today we are discussing
Activation of Facebook Marketplace in Nigeria
Agrocenta’s $790k pre-Series A round
Chronic digital debtors in Kenya Facebook Marketplace finally in Nigeria
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| 27.01.2021 | Burn the Copycat, Twitter’s newsletter acquisition, South Africa’s crypto crackdown | Share this article:
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Twitter acquires newsletter startup, Revue
WhatsApp clone, GBWhatsApp Twitter trend
South Africa set to regulate cryptocurrency
Clubhouse is coming to Android Outrage against GBWhatsApp, WhatsApp... |
| 08.01.2021 | A Look into the South African Startup Ecosystem | Admit it or not, the startup ecosystem has today become the most crucial component for a country’s economic development. Having realized this fact, governments worldwide are spending enormous sums for the development of a robust startup eco... |
| 27.11.2020 | What makes Nigeria the dominant country in West Africa’s startup space | Share this article:
Stakeholders are excited about the progress made on the Nigerian tech scene over the years; all things considered, their enthusiasm is justified. Like other countries in the world, Nigeria is experiencing disruptions in ... |
| 18.11.2020 | Startup Funding: A beautiful game that must be played with caution | Share this article:
When the statistics are reviewed, the irrefutable conclusion is that relative to other African countries, Nigerian startups have been very successful in raising Venture Capitalist (VC) or Private Equity funding.
WeeTrack... |
| 05.11.2020 | The Big 5 Daily | Hey Techies,
Welcome to today’s Big 5 Daily edition.
GSMA has released its Mobile Economy Report for 2020. There will be 610 million global new subscribers by 2025, and nearly two-thirds will be from the Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa.... |
| 03.11.2020 | Wee Media, the parent company of tech and business publication, WeeTracker, raises $400k seed | Share this article:
Yesterday, Wee Media, a Pan-African media company, secured a seed round of $400k.
Founded in 2017 by Keshu Dubey, Nayantara Jha, and Rishabh Lawania, Wee Media started off with its tech and business publication, WeeTrack... |
| 30.10.2020 | Nigerian HR startup, SeamlessHR, raises a seven-figure round to drive pan-African expansion | Share this article:
Nigerian HR startup, SeamlessHR, has raised a new round of funding in a bid to drive pan-African expansion.
Founded in 2013 by Dr Emmanuel Okeleji and Deji Lana, the company started off as a jobs aggregator that crawled ... |
| 15.09.2020 | The gig economy is a big boost, but still a different story in Africa | Share this article:
Earlier in September, Andela — a popular startup in the African talent-sharing marketplace — reportedly changed from its most recent model of hiring senior software developers.
If you recall, the startup began as a train... |
| 12.09.2020 | Former Cars45 CEO, Etop Ikpe, will head Autochek, a new company set to launch on October 1 | Share this article:
Yesterday, Techpoint Africa gathered that Ex-CEO of Cars45, Etop Ikpe, will be at the helm of affairs of a new company, Autochek.
This news comes after two weeks of speculation on how the CEO left his previous company, C... |
| 03.09.2020 | 11 Senior Execs dramatically leave Cars45; Here’s what we know so far | At Cars45, the exit of the CEO, Co-founder and 9 other senior management employees is raising questions.
On September 1, 2020, Cars45, the platform that is trying to organise the used car market across Africa put up an Instagram post. The p... |
| 18.08.2020 | Victor Basta: How to prepare for big mergers and acquisitions in Africa | Where are the exits in Africa?
This question often arises at African tech events and in social media groups featuring the continent’s ecosystem actors. When investors back companies, they expect to reap positive returns after a few years. B... |
| 12.08.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 7th August 2020 | Hey Guys
Hope you’ve got your Big 5 Daily TGIF vibes ready for the weekend.
Guess what! Facebook Accelerator: Commerce is receiving applications to its 12-week non-equity program. It is looking for technology that easily connects the buyers... |
| 17.07.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 16th July 2020 | Hello Guys,
Throwback, its Thursday!
Thankfully,
Today’s Big 5 Daily is up and ready for reading.
Komaza has raised $28 million in a Series A Seed Funding round. The startup seeks to leverage tech to revolutionize Africa’s wood industry.
Ca... |
| 10.07.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 8th July 2020 | Hello Guys,
We have hot gists from the mid-week edition of Big 5 Daily.
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LG Velvet 5G smartphone is now available in South Africa. Some of its specs include a 6.8 inch curved OLED screen with a 16MP selfie camera notch and a t... |
| 10.07.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 7th July 2020 | Hello Techies,
It’s time for the Big 5 Daily gists.
Where are my football lovers? Showmax has today, launched Showmax Pro live streaming services in Nigeria and Kenya. This product will include all the current programs and additional live s... |
| 25.06.2020 | Another report, another number, for VC investments in African startups [Opinion] | Those in Africa’ tech startup scene can be forgiven for being confused when asked how much venture capital (VC) goes to the continent’s startups.
Recently, a plethora of reports on the VC sector have each come up with different figures whe... |
| 25.06.2020 | Another report, another number, for VC investments in African startups [Opinion] | Those in Africa’ tech startup scene can be forgiven for being confused when asked how much venture capital (VC) goes to the continent’s startups.
Recently, a plethora of reports on the VC sector have each come up with different figures when... |
| 18.06.2020 | My Life in Tech: Anis Kallel’s Kaoun wants to bank Tunisia’s unbanked millions | My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa.
This week, we head to Tunisia where more than 60% of adults do not have a bank account... |
| 15.05.2020 | Opera’s OPay still plans Africa expansion on Nigerian super app | Opera’s Africa fintech startup OPay remains committed to building a multi-service super app in Nigeria as the foundation to expand on the continent.
OPay also continues to operate ORide for limited passenger service — though the company is ... |
| 08.05.2020 | What’s happening to OPay’s super app plans? | Share this article:
For a startup that raised $50 million in its Series A round just nine months after launch in August 2018, and went ahead with an even larger $120 million in Series B barely six months after, expectations were high for OP... |
| 05.05.2020 | Andela lays off 135 staff across four locations, most senior staff to take pay-cuts | Andela, the software engineering talent company, has laid off 135 of its staff across four locations.
On Tuesday, Jeremy Johnson, the company’s CEO, led a company-wide video conference call attended by over 1,300 staff from Nigeria, Uganda,... |
| 04.05.2020 | Post-lockdown rush underscores slow pace of digitization in Nigerian banking | Emmanuel has waited for more than two hours outside a Zenith Bank branch in Surulere, Lagos state. His ATM card expired before the five-week lockdown began on March 30. Unable to renew it, he had withdrawn enough cash to last the period.
Bu... |
| 24.04.2020 | After having a fantastic 2019, the year 2020 has been tough for OPay | OPay is having a difficult 2020
OPay became a household name in Lagos, Nigeria last year. At the start of 2019, the company was just one of many upstarts trying to disrupt the Nigerian financial system. But six months into the year, the sta... |
| 14.04.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 8th April, 2020 | Hello!
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Enjoy your tech gist ride!
Drum roll! The Jack Ma foundation has unveiled the second edition of the Africa Netpreneur Prize. Interested startups stand to gain $1.5 million cash prize. The application is op... |
| 10.04.2020 | On funding, African startups did well in Q1 2020. But don’t get comfortable | Venture funding in the first quarter of the year was not terrible for African startups. Considering the ravaging impact of the coronavirus on the world, it would have been sensible to expect a bad outing for the continent’s tech economy.
Bu... |
| 30.03.2020 | Why this is the best time for physical tech talent startups to prove their value proposition | Tech talent training startup Decagon closed its physical offices last week Monday. Students who lived in its boarding house had vacated the previous weekend with the hassle typical of short-notice evacuation. Staff have been working 100% re... |
| 27.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 25th March, 2020 | Hello,
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Drum roll! The South African Department of Small Business Development is planning to set up a Debt Relief Fund. The fund will be a means to assist SMEs from existing debts and rep... |
| 20.03.2020 | Latest report puts new number to Egypt’s record year of startup deals in 2019 | Egypt topped the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region last year when it came to the number of investments concluded by tech startups, a new report has found.
While this may be so, the figures revealed in a new report released earlier ... |
| 20.03.2020 | Latest report puts new number to Egypt’s record year of startup deals in 2019 | Egypt topped the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region last year when it came to the number of investments concluded by tech startups, a new report has found.
While this may be so, the figures revealed in a new report released earlier... |
| 16.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 16th March, 2020 | Hello Monday,
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Big news! CcHUB is calling on startups with projects that will help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The innovation lab through its Design Lab will provide funding, research and support that wi... |
| 11.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 11th March, 2020 | Hello,
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Big news! Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters have held the public hearing for its Social Media Bill. The public hearing which had 62 representatives across civil so... |
| 05.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 5th March, 2020 | Hello,
It’s time for the Big 5 Daily!
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Big news! Scientists monitoring the locust outbreak in Kenya are planning to leverage a tracking program towards preventing a second attack. This is important, considering that ... |
| 04.03.2020 | Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? | Five years ago, it was hard to come by any formal numbers for annual VC investment in Africa. These days the challenge is choosing which number to follow.
That’s the case with three venture funding studies for Africa that turned up varied r... |
| 04.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 4th March 2020 | Hello,
It’s the Big 5 Daily!
Heard about WhatsApp Dark mode? Well, its now available for android and IOS users.
Now for the Big 5 proper, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has acquired TerraPay in a co-joined deal. It acquired the... |
| 03.03.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 3rd March 2020 | Hello,
Your Big 5 Daily Crooner is here again.
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Big news! IHS Towers has crossed its T’s and dotted its I’s towards listing its IPO this year. The IPO will happen in the New York Stock Exchange under the supervision of ... |
| 27.02.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 27th February, 2020 | Hello!
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Big news! The Nigerian government has revealed a plan to invest $268 million in agro entrepreneurs and tech innovators in the country. The government through the Bank of Industry (BoI) will ... |
| 26.02.2020 | South African fintech startup Jumo raises second $50M+ VC round | South African fintech startup Jumo closed a $55 million round from a diverse group of investors, the company confirmed.
Founded in 2015 and based in Cape Town, the venture offers a full tech stack for partners to build savings, lending, and... |
| 24.02.2020 | Is the coast clear for Lagos’ bus-hailing startups? | Transport in Lagos is big business. With its 21 million people always crisscrossing for work and play, every vehicle that carries Lagosians from point A to point B is potentially a money spinning venture both for the business owner and the ... |
| 21.02.2020 | Is Africa the next frontier for emerging technologies? | For every bad rep the African continent gets in terms of its politics, infrastructure shortcomings and poor socioeconomic systems, its technology industry gets a double dose of the opposite.
From a gamut of technology startups innovating fo... |
| 07.02.2020 | African Tech News Roundup | Hello techies, welcome to the Africa Tech News Roundup. Thank God it’s Friday (Dancing).
It’s indeed been a busy week, especially with the restriction on Motorcycle (Okada) on the major street of Lagos. I hope you didn’t have to trek long d... |
| 06.02.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 6th February, 2020 | Hello,
Your Big 5 Daily Crooner is back with another mouthwatering gist from Africa’s tech ecosystem.
Sit back and enjoy!
Big news! 54gene, a medical startup based in Nigeria launched the African Centre for Translational Genomics (ACTG). Th... |
| 05.02.2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 5th February, 2020 | Hello,
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William Sachiti, a Zimbabwean AI expert, has published an open-source technology dubbed ‘Trees of Knowledge.’ He aims to leverage technology to boost education in Africa via smartphones.
Farmcrowdy has ac... |
| 30.01.2020 | Tech firms serving Africa raised over $2bn in funding in 2019 reveals Partech report | Venture capital (VC) investments in tech companies that serve the African market last year grew 74% over 2018 — to total over $2-billion, through 250 rounds, up from 164 in 2018, reveals a new report by Partech Africa.
Partech says the fin... |
| 30.01.2020 | Tech firms serving Africa raised over $2bn in funding in 2019 reveals Partech report | Venture capital (VC) investments in tech companies that serve the African market last year grew 74% over 2018 — to total over $2-billion, through 250 rounds, up from 164 in 2018, reveals a new report by Partech Africa.
Partech says the find... |
| 30.01.2020 | Airtel’s review of out-of-bundle browsing tariffs for Kenyans and what it means for telco competition in the country | Share this article:
Airtel Kenya recently announced a downward review of its out-of-bundle browsing rates on all plans to 1KSH per 5 MB. Apparently, the new charges are relatively low compared to the previous 21.50 KSH per 5 MB. And this is... |
| 21.01.2020 | African fintech firm Flutterwave raises $35M, partners with Worldpay | San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has raised a $35 million Series B round and announced a partnership with Worldpay FIS for payments in Africa.
With the funding, Flutterwave will invest in technology and business dev... |
| 20.01.2020 | How many African startups co-founded by women raised $1 million or more in 2019? | Share this article:
Briter Bridges, a data-driven research company, recently released its “Africa’s Funding Landscape” report in which it stated the quantity and quality of investments African startups accessed over the course of 2019.
The ... |
| 19.01.2020 | Catalyst Fund gets $15M from JP Morgan, UK Aid to back 30 EM fintech startups | The Catalyst Fund has gained $15 million in new support from JP Morgan and UK Aid and will back 30 fintech startups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the next three years.
The Boston based accelerator provides mentorship and non-equit... |
| 17.01.2020 | African tech firms closed funding deals worth $1.27b in 2019 – Briter Bridges report [Updated] | African tech companies raised $1.27-billion in funding across 167 disclosed deals in 2019, an investment summary by London-based research firm Briter Bridges has found.
The report (available for free to download here) is based on research ... |
| 17.01.2020 | African tech firms closed funding deals worth $1.27b in 2019 – Briter Bridges report [Updated] | African tech companies raised $1.27-billion in funding across 167 disclosed deals in 2019, an investment summary by London-based research firm Briter Bridges has found.
The report (available for free to download here) is based on research a... |
| 05.01.2020 | Into Africa: tech leaders weigh in on Jack Dorsey’s planned move to the continent | It’s not every day that the CEO of a large Silicon Valley tech company decides to relocate to a different part of the world in order to learn more about it — particularly when it has been frequently maligned and often overlooked by big busi... |
| 04.12.2019 | Lessons from M-Pesa for Africa’s new VC-rich fintech startups | In African fintech, the fourth quarter of 2019 brought big money to new entrants.
Chinese investors put $220 million into OPay and PalmPay — two fledgling startups with plans to scale in Nigeria and the broader continent. Several sources to... |
| 12.11.2019 | Chaka opens up global investing to Africa’s most populous nation | Fintech startup Chaka aims to open up online investing to Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria.
The seed-stage company recently went live with its mobile-based platform that offers Nigerians stock trading in more than 40 countries.
Chaka ... |
| 12.11.2019 | PalmPay launches in Nigeria on $40M round led by China’s Transsion | Africa-focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion.
The investment came via Transsion’s Tecno subsidiary, with participation from China’s NetEase... |
| 31.10.2019 | Up to $150k on offer in Daikin-Samurai Incubate Africa Ideathon | Tech startups that pitch at the Daikin-Samurai Incubate Africa Ideathon set for 10 and 11 December in Nairobi stand to tap up between $100 000 and $150 000 in funding from early stage venture capital (VC) firm Samurai Incubate Africa.
Samur... |
| 31.10.2019 | Up to $150k on offer in Daikin-Samurai Incubate Africa Ideathon | Tech startups that pitch at the Daikin-Samurai Incubate Africa Ideathon set for 10 and 11 December in Nairobi stand to tap up between $100 000 and $150 000 in funding from early stage venture capital (VC) firm Samurai Incubate Africa.
Samu... |
| 25.09.2019 | MaxAB raises $6M seed round to optimize Egypt’s B2B grocery markets | Cairo-based startup MaxAB looks to optimize the supply-chain network for Egypt’s food and grocery retailers.
The B2B e-commerce company raised a $6.2 million seed-investment co-led by Beco Capital and 4DX Ventures. Others co-leaders include... |
| 12.09.2019 | Nigerian digital bank, Kuda, raises $1.6 Million pre-seed funding in readiness to exit beta | When it launched in 2016, fintech startup KUDImoney, offered small loans of up to US$5,000 to individuals and small businesses, repayable over a period of up to 12 months. A year later, it had incorporated a savings service into its platfor... |
