Investment firm Unicorn Group has launched its fourth incubation programme for entrepreneurs, which for the first time is open to startups from a host of...
12 startups will be selected to receive funding, hands-on mentorship, and access to the Techstars worldwide network on an annual basis. Up to 12 startups...
Only 21% of the 12 million registered vehicles on Nigerian roads have genuine motor insurance, as the rest either have fake certificates (owners are mostly...
Rísé.ng wants to expand on a pan-African network of markets in the nearest future. Nigerian startup, Rise.ng has secured a $150,000 pre-seed round as it...
Nigerian entrepreneur and the founder of Krystal Digital Solutions Limited, Temitope Ogunsemo has been listed in the Forbes Africa Undiscovered Series for Nigeria as part...
Nigerian “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) startup CredPal has raised US$15 million in funding to expand its consumer credit offerings in Nigeria and scale across...
The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. During that period, the volume of POS payments in...
The LHoFT Foundation has selected 10 African fintech startups to take part in CATAPULT: Inclusion Africa: Special Edition in Dubai, which looks to support companies...
Canza Finance, a Nigerian cryptocurrency startup, announced that it completed a $3.27 million seed round financing to offer crypto financial services across the country. Canza,...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Google have announced an inaugural Google.org Fellowship to provide one million additional Africans with access to the TEFConnect platform,...
ThriveAgric, a Nigerian agric tech, says it has secured $56.4 million in debt funding from local commercial banks and institutional investors to help its expansion plans....
Tomato Jos Farming and Processing Limited, has launched its much-anticipated Tomato Jos paste variant into the Nigerian market. The new tomato paste variant, packaged in...
Nigeria-based mobility fintech startup Moove has raised US$105 million in an oversubscribed Series A2 round to scale to seven new markets across Asia, MENA, and...
YEP!, a financial super-app, has raised $1.5million in a pre-seed funding round led by Greenhouse Capital as the company launches its revolutionary new digital financial...
Sudo Africa, a fintech that provides a card-issuing API for developers and businesses in Nigeria, has raised $3.7 million in pre-seed funding. San Francisco-based Global Founders...
Tingo wants to raise money to focus on farmers’ needs in Africa. The fintech aims to address gaps in financing for those farmers. Tingo, a fintech firm...
Africa-focused fintech firm Flutterwave said on Wednesday it had raised $250 million in its single-biggest funding round to date, valuing the startup at more than...
Remedial Health has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies, and stem the supply of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products, starting with Nigeria before...
Moove, the African mobility fintech, has partnered with CFAO Motors and purchased over 5,000 brand-new, fuel-efficient Suzuki vehicles for its mobility entrepreneurs across Ghana and Nigeria....
In keeping with its vision to assist young creative minds become Africa’s next billion-dollar entrepreneurs, Growth Africa StartUp in partnership with Lagos Business School has...
There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine,...
Cloud-based point of sales for small, medium and large-sized restaurants has increased tremendously in both size and popularity. The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such...
Nigerian credit management fintech startup BFREE has raised a US$1.7 million pre-Series A funding round and strengthened its management team ahead of global expansion. Founded...
Stranerd, a Nigerian startup, has launched a peer-to-peer learning platform where students can ask and answer homework-related questions, with the service designed to give the...
THE Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries, has opened applications for the 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship...
Nigeria’s Metro Africa Xpress (MAX), a vehicle subscription platform for low-to-zero emission vehicles, has raised US$31 million in the first close of a Series B...
The leading pan-African Banking Group, Ecobank Group (www.Ecobank.com), announces that Trove Finance, a Nigerian-based global share dealing app, is the winner of the fourth edition...
To ensure the production of quality agricultural produce in Nigeria, the French government has invested €200,000 to train rural women on best practices to lead...