Kenyan Edtech startup Ed Partners has announced it raised $1.9m in funding. The round was secured by global social impact investors Acumen, I&P, Zephyr, and other existing
Johannesburg based visitor management startup WizzPass has been acquired by US digital workplace solutions firm FM:Systems.
WizzPass was founded in 2015, the startup focuses on improving the often manual
Cape Town-headquartered Edtech startup HyperionDev has announced it raised $3.5m in Series A funding to help it expand its offering to thousands of students globally. The majority of which
Abidjan-based mobility startup Moja Ride founded in 2020 has partnered with O-CITY. The partnership comes after a Series A funding round led by Orange Ventures and Toyota Tsusho Corporation (“Toyota
Kenya’s Safaricom has announced that its M-Pesa Super app will be released today. The release of the super app follows the prior announcement by the telecoms firm to obtain
Nairobi-based Agritech startup Apollo Agriculture has announced it raised $1m in debt funding from the Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund).
Apollo Agriculture uses its digital approach to help small-scale farmers
Cape Town-based Fintech startup Finch Technologies has made a large investment to become the majority stakeholder in South Africa’s premier business financing marketplace, FundingHub. This investment round follows an
Erikan Obotetukudo co-founder of Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment (CBBE), has announced the launch of Audacity Fund, a new crypto venture capital fund. CoinShares CSO Meltem Demirors, IDEO CoLab Ventures,
The Bank of Uganda (BOU) has announced creating a Regulatory Sandbox Framework that allows Fintech startups to test their innovative financial products in a safe environment.
Prof. Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor of
Nigerian tech shipping platform helping Nigerian merchants ship locally and internationally Topship, has announced it raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round by angel investors from both the United
Egyptian Fintech startup Khazna has announced has partnered with the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) Egypt and Masria Digital Payments (MDP) to launch its Khazna Card.
With Khazna’s super
Zimbabwean startup Bhala has launched a mobile virtual keyboard that uses machine learning and state-of-the-art deep learning models to improve the experience of writing in African languages.
Bhala that started
