Startups

SOSV, a US-based venture capital firm, has named three African startups among other companies to receive up to $150,000 in...

Arnergy, Nigeria’s leading distributed utility company delivering solar energy solutions, has today announced the launch of the Diaspora Initiative -...

Bosta, an Egyptian-based logistics and last mile delivery startup has announced plans to launch in South Africa and the United...

ImaliPay, the one-stop financial platform for Africa’s gig workers, has partnered with pan-African payments company Cellulant, for its payments infrastructure...

Nigeria’s fast-growing fintech company, Crowdyvest Limited has today announced a re-launch of its mobile app. Marked as the go-to digital...

The Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa initiative, which is sponsored by the United Kingdom, plans to create Insurtech accelerator programs...

RegTech Africa and 11 other ecosystem initiate worldwide recently participated in the 1st Cohort of the DEEP ecosystem accelerator program....

In a bid to digitize the public transportation system and provide safer, reliable and comfortable commute options across Africa, Toronto-based...

AfricArena, which provides open innovation challenges, research and deal flow services to help accelerate the work of founders, investors and...

Agricorp International, Nigeria’s fast-growing agriculture producing, processing and export company has invested N4 billion into acquiring poultry production facilities across...

While November has always been synonymous with National Entrepreneurship Month in South Africa, you’d be forgiven for wondering if it’s...

Finalists to compete for the top prize and could be inducted into the coveted Ecobank Fintech Fellowship to pursue commercial...

Evolve Credit has launched Configure Cloud Lending Platform, a core lending solution that enables lenders to manage the entire loan...

BasiGo, an e-mobility startup has launched operations in Nairobi, Kenya. This is coming after the startup raised US$900,000 (KES 100m)...

Moove, an African mobility fintech, has signed an exclusive partnership with Lori Systems, the leading e-logistics company in Africa. The...

Open Banking is a recent innovation in Fintech that though it has a disruptive effect on the working model of...

Startup Genome and LaunchVic recently released the 2021 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER): Life Sciences Edition. The GSER is the...

Workpay a Nairobi-based startup allows SMEs to easily manage and pay their employees from anywhere in Africa. Through a web...

The average Nigerian finds the status quo of road transportation in the country tolerable if not unpleasant and often complains...

Today, the Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator welcomed four Ghanaian digital commerce companies, OZÉ, Shopa, Swoove, and Tendo, as...

The Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) has recently announced the winners of the Inclusive Fintech 50 (IF50) competition’s 2021 cohort....

Ghanaian health startup, mPharma, has acquired a major stake in Ugandan-based pharmacy, Vine Pharmacy. This is coming two years after...

Releaf, an agtech startup that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions that make African farmers and food factories more efficient...

Information Technology (IT) deals with everything data, such as data processing, data distribution, data storage, and even data retrieval including...

TalentQL, a tech talent startup democratizing access to opportunities for African tech talents has today launched AltSchool Africa. AltSchool Africa...

Autochek, the automotive technology company that aims to facilitate auto finance across Africa, has officially widened its operations to Kenya...

In a move aimed at driving its independent payment cards offering, Kuda Technologies, the challenger bank for Africans, has partnered...

Investing in a startup can be said to be one of the biggest business risks people undertake. Yet lots of...

The Last Mile Money Accelerator which is a four-month program that is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...

The 2021 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize, a flagship philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation, has announced this...