Careem, has seen a sharp rally in its ride service amidst the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic despite its negative impact on other businesses. Careem, which was acquired by Uber Technologies last year at $3.1 billion, expected its ride service to recover at the end of 2021, but now hopes it

South African edtech startup, Examsta has rolled out an educational web app to help high school students to prepare for examinations. Currently, the app is in the testing phase and provides study material for the South African, CAPS, and IEB high school exams. De Wet created Examsta for “content-heavy” subjects

FastBitCoins has announced its partnership with Flexepin, a voucher giant for global expansion and entry into 14 African countries. The partnership will allow Flexepin users to redeem their pre-paid cash vouchers via the FastBitCoins website. It will also provide mobile money services to customers in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, and

The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has committed a combined US$700,000 in seven tech startups that have graduated from its annual training program. The seven startups will be given a chance to join over 40 companies in the ongoing MEST Africa incubation program that are part of

Careem, the Egyptian tech giant is going remote, allowing their employees to work from home. Careem is joining other tech giants within the region to announce remote work following the devastating effect of the pandemic on commerce and the importance of social distance which has become impossible within the workplace.

Argineering, an Egyptian design tech startup, has rolled out a new kit dubbed RGKit Play to allow designers, videographers, and creatives to add movement in style to their projects. The RGKit Play is a modular wireless kit with motors that gives access to its user to modify movement and light

South African digital solutions company, CyberEcomm has launched a new e-Commerce platform, ShopESpot. ShopESpot is an all-in-one shopping platform that enables South African businesses to build an online presence. Chief Sales and Marketing Director of ShopESpot, Lisa Sukdev, said, “The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about disruptive innovation whereby trends, such

Pan-African telecommunications group, Paratus Zambia has rolled out a 100Gig metro fiber ring in Lusaka, Zambia. It is expected that the fiber ring to leverage technology which will increase the bandwidth over an existing fiber network. This means that businesses can transmit data at speeds of up to 100Gbps. With

Egyptian logistics startup, RoadRunner has secured six-figure seed investment from an undisclosed strategic individual investor. RoadRunner provides fast on-demand delivery solutions to restaurants and other businesses in Cairo, Tanta and Mansoura. The platform partners with restaurants and other businesses that are avoiding hiring food delivery aggregators and do not want

Egyptian esports group, Anubis Gaming has raised $300,000 seed round from a regional ecommerce group. This comes after the group raised $100,000 in funds last month, making a total funding raised by Anubis $450,000 since it started operations. Anubis is an esports team that takes part in

South African startup, Cash Crusaders which retails both new and second-hand goods,  is introducing an ecommerce platform dubbed, ‘Click & Collect’. Click & Collect will help the startup take its retail business online especially in these times where ecommerce is helping prevent the spread of COVID-19. CEO of Cash Crusaders

African-focused communications consultancy, Djembe Consultants is partnering with AfriLabs to develop a report on the future of African innovation amidst a backdrop of a global pandemic. The theme of the report is  ‘Building a Resilient Innovative Africa’ and would be unveiled during the 5th AfriLabs Virtual Annual Gathering starting October

Nigeria health-tech startup, 54gene is in partnership with Illumina, a US-based genomics company to develop a first-class genomics facility in Nigeria. Through thr partnership, a new genetics facility will be established in Lagos, Nigeria which will be equipped with Illumina’s cutting-edge sequencing and high-density microarray technology platforms to fetch

Nigerian fin-tech startup, Sparkle has partnered VISA to provide digital payment methods for users, entrepreneurs, and SMEs across Nigeria. The partnership will allow Sparkle to issue VISA cards to its users. Sparkle is a Nigerian digital platform which offers financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians around the world.

Nigerian digital insurance platform, AutoGenius introduces a new AI Bot, the first in Nigeria’s Insurance space. The new AI bot gives subscribers and prospects instant access to insurance products and carry out activities including Insurance purchase, plan renewal, product information. The bot deals with customers through the help of

South African tech startup, Zindi rolled out a new recruitment platform that will connect various organisations with Africa’s data scientists. The recruitment platform which has access to a community of over 18,000 data scientists was launched today at AI Expo Africa, Africa’s biggest B2B AI RPA trade

Ghanaian startup, Techfarm has launched Mobibasket, an online shopping platform to provide a convenient and affordable online shopping during the COVID-19 pandamic and its aftermath. Mobibasket is made with the best technology to give value and convenient on-demand delivery service, that has the ability to track in real-time, deliveries to

Talabat has officially launched in Egypt replacing Otlob, while announcing the launch of a grocery delivery service dubbed ‘Talabat Mart’ in Egypt. This comes after Delivery Hero rebranded Otlob as Talabat in August which is part of Delivery Hero’s consolidation efforts in the Middle East & North Africa. According

Union Systems Limited, a Nigerian financial technology startup, has rolled out a new product, dubbed Optimus, the first multi-bank international trade finance portal in Nigeria. Optimus is a cloud-based application that allows corporates to initiate, process as well as manage international trade transactions across banks from a single portal. The