Geidea, Egyptian Fintech Joins Forces With Visa to Fast-track Digital Payments Across Egypt
The world’s leading provider of digital payments, Visa, and Geidea, an Egyptian Fintech business, have announced a strategic agreement to…
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BasiGo Joins Forces With KCB to Unveil Green PSV Buses
In a deal between KCB Bank Kenya and BasiGo Ltd, an e-mobility startup and financing firm providing electric bus services…
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Vella Finance, Nigerian FinTech Announces Payment Tools for SMEs
A Nigerian fintech startup called Vella Finance has announced the release of new payment tools designed to make it easier…
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Partment, Egyptian Prop-tech Startup Secures $1.5m Funding
A US$1.5 million pre-seed investment round has been closed by Egypt’s Partment, a prop-tech business that provides co-owned second homes….
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43 Inclusive African Businesses Join the SIBC Accelerator
The Social and Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC), an annual acceleration program created to assist the most promising high-impact African entrepreneurs…
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Oluyemi Obadare Accepted into Forbes Business Council
Oluyemi Obadare Chief Executive Officer at Certification Partner Global, West Africa has been accepted into Forbes Business Council, the foremost growth and networking organization for successful…
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Data Modelling Techniques: Creating Effective Data Structures for Analysis
Data modelling is a fundamental process in data engineering and analytics that entails designing and building data structures that accurately…
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Google Will Establish its Debut African Cloud Region in South Africa
South Africa is about to join Google’s 35 cloud regions and 106 zones global network. Through the use of Google…
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Purple Elephant Ventures Secure $1 million in Pre-seed Round
The world’s first venture studio with a tourism focus, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), is based in Kenya and has closed…
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MEST Africa Challenge Selects 7 Kenyan Tech Startups for a Regional Competition
The 2022 MEST Africa Challenge will begin with the regional pitch competition, which will feature 36 eligible technology startups from…
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Tanda, Kenyan Agency Banking Startup Completes Pre-series A Round for Expansion
To speed up product development and client acquisition in Kenya and elsewhere, Kenyan agency banking as a service provider Tanda…
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InGame Sports, Egyptian Gaming Startup Secures $1m Pre-seed Funding
InGame Sports, an Egyptian gaming and sports technology business, has raised approximately US$1 million in cash, in-kind assets, and grants…
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Samsung Nigeria Unveils Galaxy A04s codenamed ‘The Eagle’
Today, Samsung Nigeria officially launched the Galaxy A04s into the Nigerian market. The launch of this device reinforces Samsung’s commitment…
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Experts to Discuss ‘Sustainability and Company of the Future’ at AfriTECH 2.0
Business subject matter experts are warming up for 2022 Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH 2.0) scheduled to hold on Wednesday,…
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6 Ghanaian Startups Joins MEST Express Accelerator
The first-ever sustainability-focused cohort of the MEST Express accelerator has chosen six impact-driven Ghanaian entrepreneurs to participate, and they will…
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Spleet, Nigerian Proptech Startup Secures $2.6 Million Seed to Penetrate Other Markets
It is generally acknowledged that Lagos has a serious housing shortage issue. The state’s large size and high population density…
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Algebra Ventures, Egyptian Venture Capital Firm Announces its First Close of Second Fund at $100M
Algebra Ventures, an Egyptian venture capital firm with a MENA emphasis, announced the opening of its $90 million second fund…
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South African Grindstone partners with Naspers Labs to Launch an all-female Accelerator Programme
The Grindstone Accelerator in South Africa has teamed up with Naspers Labs to introduce GrindstoneX, a new all-female accelerator programme…
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Dismantling a Prolific Cybercriminal Empire: REvil Arrests and Reemergence
We’ve recently seen reports that the REvil ransomware gang is back online after the January 2022 arrests of several its…
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How Standard of living in Africa is making Start-Ups Innovate around disposable income
An organization in its early phase of existence is referred to as a start-up. Entrepreneurs that desire to create a…
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MTN SA Unveils Green Energy Programme
This week, MTN South Africa released a request for proposals (RFP) that will transform the MTN Headquarters into a fully…
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Mazaya, Egyptian B2B e-Commerce Marketplace Secures a $5m Pre-seed Round
The B2B e-commerce platform Mazaya, based in Egypt, has raised $5 million in pre-seed capital to develop its operations there…
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Nigeria Innovation Summit 2022 backed by Omnibiz, Nexford University, Microsoft, NCC, NITDA, Union Bank, others
The Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS) 2022, the hybrid edition, scheduled for Tuesday, October 4 to Saturday, October 8 2022, has…
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30 African e-Health Startups Eligible for $50k Grant, Support From i3 programme
The pan-African Investing in Innovation (i3) program has chosen thirty African e-health firms to participate, providing them with a US$50,000…
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LinkedIn Shines the Spotlight on top 10 Nigerian Startups that are still waxing strong in 2022.
A list of 10 promising Nigerian startups that are overcoming the current obstacles and garnering attention in 2022 has been…
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Trella, Egyptian Logistics Startup Raises Huge Debt Facility to Facilitate Expansion
The top non-banking financial services provider in Egypt, Contact Financial Holding, has agreed to provide Trella with a sizeable financing…
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Data breaches top the list of security concerns for Nigerian CIOs
New research from the IDC reveals the latest cloud security trends in Nigeria The majority (72 percent) of Nigerian organizations…
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Numida, Ugandan FinTech Startup Secures $12.3 Million in pre-Series A Round
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are very important in Africa. An estimated 80% of jobs on the continent are held…
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iiDENTIFii, Biometric Authentication Platform Secures $15 Million for Pan-African Expansion
A South African-based automated platform called iiDENTIFii has raised $15 million in growth capital to offer a remote digital biometric…
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Knife Capital Raises USD50 Million for Pan-African Expansion
Standard Bank and the SA SME Fund have backed venture capital firm Knife Capital’s new USD50 million African Series B…
