Kenyan fintech startup Paylend, which is helping MSMEs better record data and access loans, is conducting surveys in Tanzania and Nigeria ahead of beta tests in those markets. Founded in 2019 by Bendon Murgor and Eliutherius Juma, Paylend is digitising the manual, black book recording of data traditionally used by MSMEs. “Loss of the book [...] Read more ›
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South African workforce and asset management startup Acumen Software has raised an undisclosed round of funding to scale its My Smart City platform. Acumen Software is the company behind My Smart City, a platform for city residents to report service delivery issues, track reported matters, and mobilise fellow community members. Johannesburg and Cape Town are [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the Plug and Play Morocco accelerator, which helps startups across Africa gain access to Plug and Play’s network of corporations and venture capitalists, giving them support to expand and grow their businesses outside the region. Formed in 2006, Plug and Play runs accelerator programmes and corporate innovation services, and has an [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Nguvu Health is providing on-demand online therapy sessions to Africans anywhere in the world via their smartphones. Founded in March 2020, Nguvu Health utilises Android and iOS apps to connect users with licensed therapists via in-app messaging or video call, in order to provide easy access to affordable therapy sessions. Users register and [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian healthtech, Lifestores Healthcare, an e-pharmacy platform that wants to democratise access to primary healthcare by aggregating and digitising pharmacies, is among the inaugural batch of alumni from Japan’s NINJA startup accelerator programme. Launched in 2017, Lifestores is rapidly building a network of affiliated pharmacies who can benefit from its proprietary PharmIQ pharmacy management platform [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Omnibiz, a B2B e-commerce platform that connects manufacturers and distributors of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) to retailers, has raised a US$3 million seed round to fuel its growth and expand into new markets. Founded in June 2019 by Deepankar Rustagi, Omnibiz allows retailers to place orders at their convenience and have goods delivered to their doorstep with zero [...] Read more ›
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Ghanaian startup Plendify has launched a B2B e-commerce marketplace that connects small and large African wholesalers, manufacturers, exporters and importers with customers. The Plendify B2B marketplace allows buyers around the world and African diaspora to purchase products in bulk or retail quantities conveniently and securely from local suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers in Ghana. The startup [...] Read more ›
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More than 300 African tech startups have raised more than US$1.1 billion combined so far in 2021, the first time the sector has broken the US$1 billion mark – and with four-and-a-half months of the year still to come. Up to and including August 11, 2021, a total of 303 African tech startups have raised [...] Read more ›
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Founders of tech startups based in Egypt and Nigeria have been accepted into the global Endeavor network, gaining access to various support services to help their companies scale. The Endeavor initiative works to catalyse long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs worldwide, and has accepted a host of African entrepreneurs [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the third IIF Annual Deal Summit and the preparatory Investment Readiness Accelerator, which will provide the business development support required to scale impact enterprises and inclusive business companies and link them with interested investors. The Impact Investors’ Foundation (IIF), in collaboration with Impact Amplifier, will hold the IIF Annual Deal Summit [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana, which builds financial identities for the underserved and unbanked communities, has scaled rapidly, and has already provided more than 10,000 loans across 14 cities. Founded in June of last year, Cassbana uses machine learning and AI to offer financial identities for underserved and unbanked consumers, with its technology and data, sourced [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian anti-counterfeiting startup Chekkit has raised a US$500,000 pre-seed funding round to help it expand its operations within the pharmaceutical and FMCG industries. Formed at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana, Chekkit has built a platform that tracks product movement and the parties involved in the transfer of products from warehouse [...] Read more ›
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Applications are now open for this year’s edition of the Pitch AgriHack competition, which provides cash grants to innovators increasing use of technology and creating jobs across Africa’s agricultural sector. Run by AGRF and Heifer International, Pitch AgriHack is focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation in the agriculture sector by leveraging advanced technologies [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian mobility startup Moove, which provides revenue-based vehicle financing to help individuals across Africa own their own vehicles, has raised a US$23 million Series A funding round to help it expand more quickly. Founded by British-born Nigerians Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, who have successfully built three other businesses in Africa over the last eight [...] Read more ›
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South African startup My Car Guide has launched an online platform that allows car parts and accessories manufacturers and wholesalers to list their products to be purchased by consumers and small business owners. Launched in September 2020, the Johannesburg-based My Car Guide aims to help cut out middlemen, therefore reducing costs and saving time, and [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian agri-tech startup Zowasel has received US$100,000 financing from Guinness Nigeria and Promasidor Nigeria, a leading pan-African consumer packaged food manufacturer, at the UN World Food Programme Zero Hunger Sprint. Zowasel is an agricultural technology startup developing a sustainable and nature-positive value chain across communities, people, and the planet. It works with over 1.5 million [...] Read more ›
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South African startup PropertyClan is making professional-grade property investment opportunities available to real people who may not otherwise have the insights needed to make the best investment decisions. PropertyClan was originally founded in 2019 in the United States (US) by three experienced South Africa-born entrepreneurs. However, when the app was ready to launch, the COVID-19 [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian logistics startup MVXchange has closed a seed funding round of US$1.3 million to continue building solutions for the African trade and logistics sector. Launched in 2019, MVXchange is a maritime trade and logistics platform with platforms that match demand for offshore support vessels in the energy industry and provide digital freight forwarding, customs and [...] Read more ›
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The number of African participants in the Y Combinator accelerator’s S21 cohort has increased to 12 after three more were confirmed ahead of demo days on August 31 and September 1. Disrupt Africa reported last month nine African tech startups were among the 117 revealed to be taking place in the S21 edition of the [...] Read more ›
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South African startup PharmaGo has launched a mobile app that facilitates free same-day and next-day deliveries of essential and over-the-counter medication to those in need, at the click of a button. PharmaGo – a free app now live on Google Play for Android and the iOS App Store – helps deliver medication in as little [...] Read more ›
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