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Absa to Add More Tech Processes into its Branch on the Move Unit

Absa to Add More Tech Processes into its Branch on the Move Unit

Big-four bank, Absa intends to provide more technologically advanced services for its “Branch on the Move” locations, including the activation of facial biometrics technology. In a recent interview with ITWeb, representatives of the bank disclosed this. This is a step in the future journey of the mobile service unit and

Tabby and Paymob Partner to Offer BNPL to Egyptian Retailers

Tabby and Paymob Partner to Offer BNPL to Egyptian Retailers

Paymob, the leading omnichannel payments facilitator in MENAP, and Tabby, the Middle East’s leading payments and shopping app, have announced a partnership to fuel growth for Egyptian retailers by allowing businesses across Paymob’s network to benefit from Tabby’s split-in-four, interest-free payment solution via Paymob’s gateway. Tabby’

Mazaya, Egypt's E-Commerce Startup Receives $5M in Pre-Seed Funding Round to Expand

Mazaya, Egypt's E-Commerce Startup Receives $5M in Pre-Seed Funding Round to Expand

Mazaya, an Egyptian foremost B2B e-commerce marketplace focused on electronics appliances, has secured $5 million in Raya Trade & Distribution, a subsidiary of Raya Holding for Financial Investments-led pre-seed to scale its operations in Egypt and expand into new markets and verticals. The e-commerce startup enables retailers and merchants of electronic

ComiBlock Secures Funding From California-Based Accelerator , Expert Dojo

ComiBlock Secures Funding From California-Based Accelerator , Expert Dojo

ComiBlock, a Nigerian investtech startup has secured funding from a California-based development accelerator, Expert Dojo, in other to scale. The amount raised is yet to be disclosed by the startup. Comiblock was launched in February of 2021, as a crypto divestment advisory platform. With the use of a smartphone, users

Farmerline Ghana Secures $1.5 million From Dutch Investor

Farmerline Ghana Secures $1.5 million From Dutch Investor

Farmerline, a Ghanaian agtech startup has recently secured equity funding of One million Five hundred thousand US dollars ($1.5 million) from Oikocredit a Dutch impact investor. This is Farmerline’s second closing in its pre-series round. The dutch investment brings the total raised fund at Fourteen Million, Four hundred

Mastercard's New Payments Index 2022 Reveals South Africans’ Growing Appetite for Digital Payments

Mastercard's New Payments Index 2022 Reveals South Africans’ Growing Appetite for Digital Payments

According to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022, a variety of digital payment methods are being adopted more quickly in South Africa. Consumers in South Africa are increasingly and actively using solutions like cryptocurrency, digital cards, biometric payments, buy now pay later (BNPL), and open banking for various financial transactions

Capitec Launches Capitec Connect to Provide Data that Doesn’t Expire

Capitec Launches Capitec Connect to Provide Data that Doesn’t Expire

Capitec is the most recent South African bank to introduce a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), and it promises data at low prices. The bank stated on Monday that it plans to “disrupt the prepaid industry” with a “simplified prepaid solution for phone, data, and SMS.” The bank is launching

SweepSouth Secure $11 Million Funding from Alitheia IDF

SweepSouth Secure $11 Million Funding from Alitheia IDF

SweepSouth, an on-demand house cleaning and service platform based in Cape Town, has acquired a further $11 million in capital, headed this time by private equity fund Alitheia IDF. The investment, which comes nine months after the start-up completed the acquisition of Egyptian home services platform FilKhedma, will enable it

IKhokha Launches iK Flyer, a Smart Card Machine for Small Businesses

IKhokha Launches iK Flyer, a Smart Card Machine for Small Businesses

Digital payment solutions created by iKhokha make it simpler for small businesses to launch and grow. They have introduced numerous payment options across the internet and offline company scene in just the past year. iKhokha has just introduced a smart card machine to their range of payment solutions – the iK

What Would Have Become of the African Edtech Sector without the Covid-19?

What Would Have Become of the African Edtech Sector without the Covid-19?

A good education is frequently the key to a better life in Africa. Upward mobility can occur in many different ways with the correct education. With the appropriate educational foundation, Africans have entered significant global dialogues in their occupations and businesses all around the world. The traditional methods of delivering

Kowry Energy Commissions Decentralised Solar Energy Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kowry Energy Commissions Decentralised Solar Energy Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Out of the 672 million people projected to remain without access to electricity by 2030, 85% of the population will be Africans. In a 2022 report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), 40% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity of which the Covid-19 pandemic saw

Nigerian Investors Petition Kenyan Court Over Frozen $11.8 million

Nigerian Investors Petition Kenyan Court Over Frozen $11.8 million

Over Two Thousand (2,000) Nigerian investors in Kenya have made a petition against the court to unfreeze the Eleven Million Eight Hundred Thousand ($11.8 million) US dollars that the court had ordered to be frozen. The amount in question is equivalent to one billion four hundred forty million

Playfair Capital and Global Ventures Launch “Female Founder Office Hours” across MENA

Female Founder Office Hours

Playfair Capital and Global Ventures Launch “Female Founder Office Hours” across MENA

Playfair Capital, a London-based early-stage fund, and Global Ventures, an international venture capital firm, have announced the launch of ‘Female Founder Office Hours’ across MENA, with 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including Atomico, Balderton, Creandum, EQT Ventures, Firstminute, Localglobe, Northzone, Notion, and Seedcamp, hosting virtual mentoring

Nigerian B2B Company, Vendease, raises $30 million Series A to launch operations across Africa

Nigerian B2B Company, Vendease, raises $30 million Series A to launch operations across Africa

Nigerian business-to-business (B2B) online food procurement company, Vendease has raised $30 million Series A to expand its operations to other countries on the African continent. The funding which includes debt and equity financing is shared $10 million and $20 million accordingly. This Series A equity led by TLcom and Partech

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Partners Egypt’s Sympl to offer BNPL solutions to Debit Card Holders

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Partners Egypt’s Sympl to offer BNPL solutions to Debit Card Holders

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has announced a partnership with Sympl, Egypt’s foremost “Save Your Money Pay Later” platform, to provide buy now and pay later (BNPL) services to the bank’s debit card holders at a 10% discount on their purchases. Debit card users can now split payments on

Ingame Sports, Egypt’s Gaming Startup, Secures $1M in a Pre-seed Round

Ingame Sports, Egypt’s Gaming Startup, Secures $1M in a Pre-seed Round

InGame Sports, an Egypt-based gaming and sports-tech startup announced that it has secured over $1 million in cash, in-kind resources, and grants in a pre-seed round led by Openner, a global VC that invests in early-stage tech startups with a unique combination of capital and technology. Multiple international sports names,

Egypt’s ZealPay, Launches Dara's Ice Cream App

Egypt’s ZealPay, Launches Dara's Ice Cream App

ZealPay, a London-born, Cairo-based tech startup, has launched Dara’s Ice Cream app to customize rewards and seamless payment experiences for customers using world-class data and analytics to drive higher customer loyalty as well as increase brand loyalty and revenues for Dara’s Ice Cream. Dara’s Ice Cream intends

Nigeria's Ticketing Platform, Tix Africa, Launches Box Office

Nigeria's Ticketing Platform, Tix Africa, Launches Box Office

Tix Africa, a Nigerian startup that offers the service of self-ticketing through its platform majorly for event creators, has officially launched its Box Office. This is a tool that does not require prior coding skills, allowing event creators to build a website and an online presence for all their events.

Disney to Launch Disney+ Xbox App Consoles in South Africa on 29 September

Disney to Launch Disney+ Xbox App Consoles in South Africa on 29 September

The Disney+ Xbox app will launch in South Africa on September 29, 2022, according to confirmation. People have been anticipating Disney+’s local availability on the Xbox and PlayStation lineup of consoles since it launched in South Africa in May 2022. The console version of the app will be supported

GoMed Launches In Lagos, Provides Pharmacies With Unique Selling Tools

GoMed Launches In Lagos, Provides Pharmacies With Unique Selling Tools

A digital pharmaceutical marketplace, GoMed, has officially launched in Lagos, Nigeria. The health tech is set to make safe medicines available to Nigerians on the go. Through GoMed, the public can now have easy access to health-related services and products. The startup is ready to tap into the scaling Nigerian

Binance announces Global Advisory Board to advance the potentials of Web 3

Binance announces Global Advisory Board to advance the potentials of Web 3

Chinese-Canadian largest cryptocurrency exchange company, Binance has revealed in a press release about its global advisory board (GAB) which consists of the founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao and 11 former leaders. The GAB which convened in France was chaired by former US senator and ambassador to China, Max Baucus “to

Bamboo partners with 10th Capital Investments, launches operations in Ghana

Bamboo partners with 10th Capital Investments, launches operations in Ghana

Nigerian online brokerage firm, Bamboo has announced its operations in Ghana through its partnership with 10th Capital Investments, a private Ghanaian equity firm. This partnership aims at enabling residents in the West African country to invest in foreign companies. Founded in 2020 by Richmond Bassey and Yanmo Omoregbe, the fintech

TikTok is Rolling Out Comment Dislike Button to Users worldwide

TikTok is Rolling Out Comment Dislike Button to Users worldwide

TikTok announced today that its comment dislike button is now available to all users worldwide. The dislike button was first tested by the short-form video app in April as a way for users to identify comments they believe are irrelevant or inappropriate. If you dislike a comment, the dislike is

The Foschini Group Launches TFG Connect

TFG Connect, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) has been launched by The Foschini Group (TFG), to compete with other MVNOs like Mr Price Mobile, Afrihost Air Mobile, and PnP Mobile. Utilizing the MTN network, TFG Connect will provide prepaid and “Pay Monthly” solutions. Users can purchase additional airtime in-person,

The Foschini Group Launches TFG Connect

TFG Connect, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) has been launched by The Foschini Group (TFG), to compete with other MVNOs like Mr Price Mobile, Afrihost Air Mobile, and PnP Mobile. Utilizing the MTN network, TFG Connect will provide prepaid and “Pay Monthly” solutions. Users can purchase additional airtime in-person,