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Startups from Africa are encouraged to submit an application to the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation 2.0, which aims to pilot and scale-up digital technology innovations that have a positive socioeconomic and environmental impact in regions with communities most vulnerable to current or future climate risks. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate…
It’s understandable for small business owners to believe that big business strategies don’t apply to them because of their scale. But nothing could be further from the truth than this. Every small business can prosper by employing big business practices, regardless of whether there are major ambitions for development or a desire to stay small….
In order to work together to offer digital skills programs and solutions to young leaders in the region, the Microsoft Africa Development Centre (ADC) and the Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Centre East Africa (YALI) have signed a memorandum of agreement. The MoU states that the ADC will give YALI participants access to its…
The Federation of Kenya Employers (“FKE”), the employers’ membership body in Kenya, and the Africa Digital Media Institute (“ADMI”), a training platform for Africa’s creatives, have partnered with Nexford University, the Washington, DC-based next-generation university platform offering affordable, US-accredited degrees worldwide, to address graduate recruitment challenges. Following Nexford’s entry into East Africa, the agreement will…
Treepz, Africa’s biggest car-sharing platform that offers on-demand car rentals for flexible periods, has re-launched its consumer app as Africa’s largest car-sharing marketplace. The company claims to have spent the last five months developing this solution and is thrilled to introduce it in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya. Treepz aims to lead the charge in…
IamtheCODE and the UN Women Regional Office for East and Southern Africa have joined forces to address the gender gap in digital technology in Africa. A two-day hackathon that just ended in Johannesburg, South Africa, had as its goal providing 102 high school girls from townships in the province of Gauteng with digital literacy skills…
The DFS Lab Stellar Africa Fund I, which will support high-potential builders and teams in Africa looking to revolutionize the landscape of digital payments and beyond by building on the Stellar network, has been unveiled by DFS Lab. Early-stage investor DFS Lab invests in founders that are generating possibilities for everyone while concentrating on Africa’s…
The venture-building company Factor[e] Ventures has opened a new venture studio for African entrepreneurs named Delta40. Factor[e] Ventures invests in early-stage companies in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The venture studio will have its headquarters in Kenya and operations in Nigeria. It wants to invest between $100,000 and $600,000 in businesses in the fields of…
Today, TLG Capital, a pan-African alternative investment firm, declared that it has teamed up with OnePipe to offer finance services to Nigeria’s unorganized sector. OnePipe, a Nigerian financial infrastructure company, used the company’s technological platforms to enable traditional businesses to integrate financial services into their operations. The company offered up to 2.25 billion Naira in…
Microsoft has unveiled a variety of fresh initiatives with the goal of boosting digital development, skill development, and infrastructure in the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). By 2025, the IT behemoth will work with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to provide internet access to 20 million more people in Africa. Through this collaboration, Microsoft’s Airband Initiative, which…
MSI, a global leader in gaming, content creation, business & productivity, and AIoT solutions with operations in over 120 countries, has partnered with Egypt’s fintech ‘Fawry’ to help businesses and consumers make payments. In collaboration with ABC Shop, ‘MSI’ aims to provide exclusively discounted business laptops for SMEs and startups with facilitated installment plans via…
The most popular mobile app in Africa, Bolt, has declared plans to spend €500 million there over the next two years. More than 300,000 additional drivers and couriers will have the opportunity to join the platform in 2023 thanks to the expansion of Bolt services throughout Africa. Bolt, which debuted in South Africa in 2016,…
In order to lower costs and risk for acquirers, Mastercard has teamed with Network International to address fraud, declines, and chargebacks. Through the collaboration, Network will make available to acquirers and companies in the area Mastercard’s Brighterion Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for transaction fraud screening and merchant monitoring. Losses from credit card theft are anticipated…
Nigerian blockchain payments firm Bingtellar has announced the availability of its quick crypto-to-fiat conversion service, allowing individuals and organizations to buy, sell, and receive payments in local money with ease. Bingtellar, founded in 2021, enables real-time conversion of cryptocurrency to fiat and offers users rapid liquidity in their home currency. With a typical transaction time…
With the help of a partnership with a financial solutions provider based in Dubai, Cellulant, Africa’s leading provider of payment solutions, has made it possible for expats to conveniently recharge airtime for their dependents across Africa. Through KrosPayz, Money Q’s pan-African digital payments platform that enables online payment for purchases and value-added services at the…
Visa, a global payments company, has pledged to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years. The announcement was made at the ongoing US-Africa Business Forum in Washington, DC, alongside the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit. Visa has ten African offices from which it accepts payments in all 54 countries. The financial services provider says…
In order to promote cross-border trading of securities throughout the continent, seven African stock exchanges on Wednesday started an integration experiment in the Ivory Coast. Nigeria, Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and West Africa’s stock markets are all a part of the effort, which is known as the African Exchanges Linkage project. Later on,…
For every company out there, there is an in depth goal to increase her market share in both the local and global market space. The profit margin of a company is largely dependent on the audience at her disposal. Before now, companies have used various forms of advertising to promote their product inorder to reach…
In order to advance digital identification across the continent of Africa, uqudo, a digital identity firm that makes customer onboarding safe, effective, and affordable, has worked with various organizations in the region. 50% of the 1.3 billion people in Africa, according to the World Bank and the Africa Development Bank, are smartphone users. The projected…
OneWeb has announced that it has entered into a relationship with Airtel Africa. Through this collaborative partnership, OneWeb will be able to reach government and enterprise clients throughout large swaths of the continent with its high-speed, low-latency LEO connection services. The partnership will concentrate on providing enterprise and civil government customers with satellite communications services…
The German economic development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and its Make-IT in Africa initiative have teamed up with the US-based venture capital firm 500 Global to launch the Bootcamp for Accelerator Managers (BAM) program, which will support African accelerators in their efforts to support the continent’s talented entrepreneurs. The BAM program aims…
The introduction of affiliate Madica, a structured investment program for pre-seed stage technology startups in Africa, has been announced by Flourish Ventures, a global venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs building mission-driven fintech businesses. With more than $500 million under management, Flourish Ventures supports entrepreneurs whose inventions improve the financial security and prosperity of individuals…
Ampersand, an e-mobility provider of sustainable transportation solutions in East Africa, and Bboxx, a platform that facilitates access to vital goods and services, collaborate to expand Ampersand’s e-mobility program in Rwanda. The program is now being implemented in Kigali, Africa’s greenest city, after a successful initial experiment in the nation. Over the next few years,…
Change is constant. Private individuals and businesses experience this phenomenon. A disrupted environment is an atmosphere where unexpected events occur in a way that influence processes and procedures. Disruption could be positive or negative. For instance, an influence in marketing that led to tremendous sales is a disruption with a positive impact. Disruption can occur at any…
For businesses in Africa, Be Mobile Africa has created a new multi-currency business banking platform. Customers will be able to use the site to apply for and open business accounts in USD and EUR within 48 hours without having to physically visit a bank location. With the help of the neobank’s new service, businesses will…
The world’s leading provider of digital payments, Visa, and Geidea, an Egyptian Fintech business, have announced a strategic agreement to offer Geidea’s cutting-edge payment solutions to the Egyptian market. To provide smooth and secure payment options for merchants and SMEs across the nation, Visa will invest in enhancing existing payment solutions using Geidea’s Point-Of-Sale terminals….
Data modelling is a fundamental process in data engineering and analytics that entails designing and building data structures that accurately describe the relationships between data pieces. Effective data modelling is required for organising, storing, and analysing data in a way that supports corporate objectives while also providing useful insights and decision-making. In this in-depth post,…
Standard Bank and the SA SME Fund have backed venture capital firm Knife Capital’s new USD50 million African Series B expansion fund, Knife Fund III, along with other respectable investors. The Fund’s mission is to close a crucial funding gap for follow-on projects while investing in the growth of African businesses that are driven by…
In order to support the growth of retailers in Egypt, Paymob, an Egyptian payment, and shopping app has partnered with Tabby, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform with headquarters in Dubai. This partnership allows companies operating within the Paymob network to take advantage of Tabby’s split-in-four, interest- and fee-free payment solution through Paymob’s gateway. Over 120,000 merchants…
To support its next phase of expansion and product innovation, FairMoney, a credit-driven mobile banking network for developing nations in Africa and Asia, has teamed with Oradian, a cloud-based core banking system. Oradian provides financial services to over 10 million users, collaborating with more than 50 tech lenders, banks, and finance firms in 13 African…