The advancement of technology in Africa has piqued the interest of the rest of the world. Despite been labeled an “emerging market” for a long time, it has grown dramatically over the last decades. Africa’s tech ecosystem had snowballed into one of the world’s fastest-growing tech ecosystems, with

As Africa continues to align itself with the global tech trend, the continent’s tech space continues to surge. New techs have always disrupted old ones. Globally, technology has always progressed in “tech waves,” which signal the widespread dissemination and adoption of new ideas. Manufacturing, for example, was the main

In discussing the uniqueness of Minly’s service, then we are looking at a startup interested in spreading positivity. Minly, an Egypt-based creator economy platform launched in 2020.  Mohamed El-Shinnawy, Tarek Hosny, Tarek ElGanainy, Ahmed Abbas and Bassel El-Toukhy all co-founded the startup. Minly’s focus is to provide tools

Workplace flexibility is trending more and more by the day. Organizations are adopting the work pattern to reduce cost or facilitate work flexibility for staff. Forbes predicted 2020 to be the year of the remote. However, the year ushered in a new pattern for carrying out tasks. The boundary of

50% of Africa’s workforce relies on the agricultural sector for their livelihood, income, and employment. Particularly in Kenya, agriculture accounts for over a quarter of the country’s GDP. Over 75 per cent of the country’s population makes some part of their living from agriculture. However, inefficient handling

Agritech has become a beacon of hope in the commercialization of the Agricultural industry among African Nations. Applying tech has bolstered the efficiency, sustainability, and profitability of agricultural processes and businesses. Nigerian Agritech startup, Releaf, has looked to improve the output and help African farmers earn more from their agricultural

Africa’s tech startups looked promising when they collectively raised over $475M in January. By February, $630M was added to bring the total sum raised by African startups to $1,109,590,000. At the end of March, the space seems to be very uninterested in slowing down after recording

PayMint, an Egypt-based fintech startup has secured seed funding of 7 figures from AUR Fintech, a subsidiary of AUR Capital. The round will help to support PayMint’s expansion plan in fintech and SMEs’ financial inclusion in the Egyptian market. Launched in 2019 by Mohamed Yahya and Mohamed Rabie, PayMint

Ghanaian Fintech startup, OZÉ has been providing digital record-keeping tools with embedded finance products to medium and small businesses in Africa since 2018. After OZÉ, several other accounting apps followed, a few of them include Kippa, Bumpa and Sabi Cash. Since accounting information is needed by business and startup owners

Cairo, Egypt-based robotic advisory startup Xpovi has recently scored a $300K pre-seed round led by some strategic angel investors. The company plans to scale-up autonomous financial and business planning services. Founded in May 2021, Xpovi provides business planning solutions through an interactive, and easy-to-answer questionnaire. The product leverages on artificial

Cameroonian e-health startup Waspito has announced it raised a $2.7m seed funding round to grow its user base in its home market and expand to Ivory Coast. The oversubscribed seed round was led by Newtown Partners via the Imperial Venture Fund, Launch Africa Ventures, BLOC Smart Africa managed by

Tunisian B2B biotech startup WaterSpirit has announced the completion of a fundraising round of $872k. The funding came from a group of undisclosed Tunisian investors and contributors. WaterSpirit was founded by Mehdi Bhouri in 2018 and obtained its startup label in March 2020. The startup focuses on extracting bioactive chemicals

Technology has been a satisfying global phenomenon. It has and is making business finance management easy. This management is easy and needs no mobility because it could be done at your comfort zones, with the help of smart phones by containing helpful apps that helps safe resources (energy, time and

Egypt-based leading app for credit products, offers and cashback rewards, Lucky, has announced it raised $25 million in a Series A round. The funding round, which is Egypt’s largest Fintech Series A round so far. The funding round was led by Nclude and one of Egypt’s largest national

Africa’s leading digital media company, Big Cabal Media (BCM), has announced a $2.3 million Seed funding round. The round will emphasize its commitment to keep building exciting and authoritative media products and brands. Existing investors: Unicorn Capital Partners and Future Africa as well as new investors such as

Egypt-based interior design and home renovation startup, Shatablee has announced it raised a $1.2 million funding round. The round will help scale its operations to optimize and fully digitize the interior finishing journey. Founded in 2021 by Moustafa Amer, Shatablee aims to transform the traditional home finishing process digitally.

The Web The World Wide Web (also called the web) celebrated its 30th anniversary with half of the world online in 2019. Overtime, the web has transformed the world and also widened humans’ scale. With web 1.0, the user’s role was primarily to read the information provided. The

Tunisia-based IoT energy management solution, Wattnow, has announced it closed a $1.3 million pre-Series A funding round. Katapult Climate and 216 Capital led the round. from Launch Africa Venture alongside Cross Boundary, Oman Technology Fund and a business angel from Saudi Arabia all participated in the round. Wattnow is