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MaxIQ Space partners Intelsat for Third Cohort of the Space STEM Program

MaxIQ Space partners Intelsat for Third Cohort of the Space STEM Program

Applications for the Space STEM program are now being accepted from teenagers all around the African continent, according to satellite communications provider Intelsat. This was revealed during the 25th Africa Tech Festival 2022, which is presently going on in Cape Town. The Space STEM program, a partnership between Intelsat and

Noon Partners With Family Corp To Meet Delivery Demand Across Egypt

Noon Partners With Family Corp To Meet Delivery Demand Across Egypt

An Egyptian e-commerce platform, Noon, has partnered with one of the leading transportation and logistics firms in the nation, Family Corp, for access to about 6o trucks in other to meet its delivery demands and attain customer fulfilment. The partnership was disclosed across Family Corp’s social media pages, revealing

Liquid Networks Partner Nokia for Global Partner Programme

Liquid Networks Partner Nokia for Global Partner Programme

Nokia and Liquid Networks have announced an agreement to become channel partners. As a result of this alliance, Liquid Networks and Nokia will collaborate on exclusive 4G and 5G opportunities for certain industry verticals. The Nokia NDAC (Nokia Digital Automation Cloud) solution portfolio, which consists of Nokia 4G and 5G

Kuda Bank Launches Remittance Services in the UK

Kuda Bank Launches Remittance Services in the UK

Kuda Bank, Nigeria’s foremost mobile-only licensed neobank, is expanding to the United Kingdom to provide remittance services to Nigerians living abroad. Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha founded the London-based startup in 2019. It provides financial services to Africans (beginning with Nigerians) both within and outside of Africa. As a

ATC Africa Partners PowerX to Drive Sustainability in Africa’s Telecoms Industry

ATC Africa Partners PowerX to Drive Sustainability in Africa’s Telecoms Industry

By improving energy use at tower sites, PowerX and American Tower Corporation’s African affiliate (ATC Africa) will offer the enormous efficiency and environmental benefits of PowerX’s artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to Africa’s telecommunications industry. ATC Africa used PowerX’s AI analytics across a small number of locations

Little Logistics Announces Multiple Partnerships

Little Logistics Announces Multiple Partnerships

Little, Kenya’s tech startup that operates Little Cabs, logistics, and even e-bikes, has announced a partnership with Foodplus, Carrefour, Naivas, BeyondDeals, and Bulkbox on its logistics vertical to aid their deliveries. The partnership is especially timely given the abundance of Black Friday deals. Customers who shop with the aforementioned

First Circle Capital Invests $120,000 In Morocco's WafR

First Circle Capital Invests $120,000 In Morocco's WafR

A retail-tech startup in Morroco, WafR, has received US $120,000 as investment from venture capital firm, First Circle Capital. This investment has raised WafR’s post-funding valuation to more than US $10 million. WafR was co-founded by Reda Sallak and Ismail Bargach in 2018. Since its inception, the business

Zoom Video Communications is Expanding Beyond Video With Email, Calendar Tools

Zoom Video Communications is Expanding Beyond Video With Email, Calendar Tools

Zoom Video Communications Inc. is expanding beyond its video function as it plans to roll out email and calendar features to its suite of tools as part of its latest round of business features announced at its annual Zoomtopia event, to reverse a post-pandemic slowdown. The Outlook-like Mail and Calendar,

Egypt's Paymob Begins UAE Expansion To Serve SMEs

Egypt's Paymob Begins UAE Expansion To Serve SMEs

One of the leading payment platforms across the MENA region, Paymob, has begun its next expansion phase in the region. The platform will be launching its services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE has become a hotspot for startups across the region. this can be due to its

Africa Investment Forum Draws $31B Investor Interest

Africa Investment Forum Draws $31B Investor Interest

African and international investors have expressed interest in investing $31 billion at Africa’s top investment venue, the Africa Investment Forum Market Days. The forum has attracted a total of $63.8 billion in investment interest this year, including $32.8 billion from the postponed 2021 market days that were

Talk360 to Launch Africa-wide Payment Platform

Talk360 to Launch Africa-wide Payment Platform

Talk360 has announced it will debut its own payment platform next year. The platform will be the world’s first single checkout integrating all local currencies and payment methods across the African continent. Additionally, it’s not just limited to Talk360; it will make it simple for businesses to connect

Black Girls in Tech Partners Cisco to Launch Cyber Academy

Black Girls in Tech Partners Cisco to Launch Cyber Academy

In collaboration with Cisco, UK-based organization Black Girls in Tech has unveiled its brand-new cyber academy with the goal of increasing the participation of women in the technology sector. Following the second Lagos conference, Tap into Tech, which featured high-level discussions on cybersecurity, product, engineering, research, and design, the cyber

Crypto Exchanger, Binance Now Allows Users to Deposit and Withdraw in Naira

Crypto Exchanger, Binance Now Allows Users to Deposit and Withdraw in Naira

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchanger, announced on Monday, November 7, 2022, in a rather surprising move, that Nigerians can now deposit and withdraw Naira to and from their wallets. According to a statement from the crypto exchanger, the decision to add a fiat gateway for the naira is

Nigerian Data and Intelligence Company, Stears launches data product, Stears Election ahead of 2023 general elections

Nigerian Data and Intelligence Company, Stears launches data product, Stears Election ahead of 2023 general elections

Pan-African data insight company, Stears has announced the launch of its new product, an open data project called Stears Election to disclose real-time election results. This is in its drive to reveal live data of the Nigerian general elections since 2019 when it made the record of building the first-ever

Egyptian FoodTech Brotinni Secures Seed Funding Of $600,000

Egyptian FoodTech Brotinni Secures Seed Funding Of $600,000

Brotinni, an Egypt-based Foodtech establishment has revealed its success in securing $600,000 in its recent Seed fundraising. The investment is meant to properly tech-enable the business, the raise was led by Innlife investment. Brotinni was launched in 2020 and founded by Dalia Abou Omar. The foodtech provides a platform

Signal Launches Stories Feature

Signal Launches Stories Feature

Signal, an encrypted instant messaging platform has launched a new Stories feature for all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday. The feature was first announced last month on the Signal community forum, where it was initially made available to Signal’s beta testers. Now, the feature

Xiaomi Opens First Physical Store at Sandton City Mall in South Africa

Xiaomi Opens First Physical Store at Sandton City Mall in South Africa

Xiaomi, a Chinese producer of consumer goods, has opened its first physical location in South Africa over the weekend, taking a page from the playbook of its rival. This comes after the company stated that it wanted to grow its market share in SA in order to eventually unseat Huawei

Algerian Startup Yassir Secures Series B Funding Of $150 million

Algerian Startup Yassir Secures Series B Funding Of $150 million

Yassir, an Algerian startup, with expertise in the provision of e-commerce, telemedicine, reide-hailing and travel services, has revealed it success in securing a Series B funding to the tune of One hundred and Fifty million US dollars ($150 million). According to the startup, the round was led by BOND, while

Eden Care, Rwanda’s Digital Health Insurer, Secures Pre-Seed Funding

Eden Care, Rwanda’s Digital Health Insurer, Secures Pre-Seed Funding

Eden Care, a Rwandan-licensed digital health insurer has secured a pre-Seed funding round from DOB Equity, Seedstars International, Norrsken Foundation, and Bathurst Capital. Commenting on the funding round, Moses Mukundi, CEO and Founder of Eden Care, said “Eden Care was founded to create the kind of health insurance we wanted

Electric Mobility; The African Messiah?

Electric Mobility; The African Messiah?

In 2015, the United Nations came up with seventeen (17) Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) to provide solutions to pending poverty, deaths, inequality, climate change and sicknesses in Africa. The SDGs would include : 1. No Poverty 2. Zero hunger 3. Good health and well-being 4. Quality education 5. Gender equality 6.

Jumia Group Co-Founders, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara Step Down as Co-CEOs

Jumia Group Co-Founders, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara Step Down as Co-CEOs

Jumia Group co-founders, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara have stepped down as Co-CEOs of the e-commerce firm. The two co-CEOs announced this in separate LinkedIn posts. According to a company statement, Francis Dufay, the Executive Vice President for Africa and former CEO of Ivory Coast, will now serve as acting

Nigerian Fintech Awards Reward Individuals and Firms with Special Recognition Award

Nigerian Fintech Awards Reward Individuals and Firms with Special Recognition Award

Nigerian Fintech Awards, organized by one of Africa’s oldest and most influential financial technology publications, Fintech Africa, over the weekend rewarded the best in the Nigerian Fintech industry. The event, now in its tenth year, was held on Friday, November 4th at the prestigious Oriental Hotel to recognize excellence

Lagos Digital Summit (LDS) to hold 6th edition, features key industry professionals

Adewale Adetona

Lagos Digital Summit (LDS) to hold 6th edition, features key industry professionals

Launched in 2017 by Adewale Adetona popularly called iSlimfit, the Lagos Digital Summit (LDS) is an annual event that focuses on the development of digital media enthusiasts and business leaders. Themed “Scaling Businesses leveraging Digital Technology”, the Lagos Digital Summit is set to hold its 6th edition by 10 AM

On-demand mobility solution company, Max expands to Ghana, aims at consolidating its EV product in Africa

Electric Vehicle

On-demand mobility solution company, Max expands to Ghana, aims at consolidating its EV product in Africa

Popular for its ride-hailing services in Nigeria but originally launched as a logistics startup, Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (MAX) has transitioned to a fully-fledged transportation solutions provider and provider of electric vehicles (EV) in Africa. In 2021, it announced its plan to drive its services across Africa with its $31