Nigerian startup Topship, launched last year at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and growing ever since, hopes to become the “Flexport for African SMEs, connecting merchants on the continent with the rest of the world. Launched in June 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdowns with limited resources, Topship has gone from strength to strength. It [...] Read more ›
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When Folake Owodunni’s one-year-old son began screaming in pain at 2am in 2017, she knew something was terribly wrong. After several attempts to calm him down failed, she did the only thing she could think of – call 9-1-1. Like many immigrants to North America, she knew the emergency number mostly from movies. This time [...] Read more ›
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Cairo-based e-commerce startup Teegara has closed a five-figure pre-seed follow-on investment round to fund its early growth. Founded in 2019, by Ahmad Kayyali and Nader Ibrahim with first investee Ahmed Samir, Teegara is a B2B2C e-commerce marketplace that aims to help anyone to trade, starting with small retailers and social e-commerce merchants. Through its digital [...] Read more ›
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Viewmax Entertainment is the latest addition to the busy Nigerian video on demand (VoD) space, focusing on making the latest local and international movies available to urban and peri-urban communities that otherwise lack ways of viewing them. Formed in September 2020 by Abdulmalik Badamasi and Ayuba Abdullahi Mako, Viewmax aims to improve movie distribution on [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup myclinic.ng is focused on solving the problem of healthcare access in Nigeria by working closely with hospitals to enable them to extend their healthcare services to inaccessible locations using telemedicine.  Since launching about two years ago, they have evolved as a team, and this evolution can be credited to the enormous lessons learned [...] Read more ›
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South African insurtech startup Naked, a fully digital insurance platform offering comprehensive and instant cover for cars, homes, contents, and standalone items, has raised a ZAR160 million (US$11 million) Series A funding round led by Naspers Foundry to boost its growth plans. Co-founded by actuaries Alex Thomson, Sumarie Greybe, and Ernest North, Naked, which launched [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan fintech startup Wapi Pay, which also has operations in Singapore, has raised a US$2.2 million pre-seed funding round to help it engage regulators for licensing across Africa, and drive higher and sustained growth. Founded in 2019, Wapi Pay, which has offices in Nairobi, Singapore and Tianjin (China), delivers platform-to-platform integrations, global accounts and virtual [...] Read more ›
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Global inclusive tech accelerator Catalyst Fund has announced the ninth cohort of its Inclusive Fintech accelerator, with three African startups among the six selected that are building solutions designed to improve the resilience of underserved customers and communities. Catalyst Fund, managed by BFA Global, is a global accelerator that supports inclusive fintech innovators and facilitates [...] Read more ›
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South African agri-tech startup Khula! has used the launch of its new app to announce it secured a ZAR20 million (US$1.4 million) seed funding round last year. Khula!, which has been in an intensive pilot stage over the last 3 years, has built an ecosystem of three platforms aimed at making the agricultural value chain [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian gaming marketplace GamesBandy has received a US$40,000 grant from Taqadam, a MENA startup accelerator, to help it expand its platform and widen its horizons. Founded in 2020, Gamesbandy is the first platform in the region to provide users with a safe and simple way to buy and sell gaming accounts and related accessories. Gamers [...] Read more ›
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Angolan startup Simpluz Tecnologias has launched Nuxo, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution that uses a machine learning algorithm to allow users to quickly and accurately identify fake news. The Luanda-based Simpluz Tecnologias has a track record of fighting fake news, having launched news aggregator Manifexto in 2017. But with the proliferation of fake news increasing, [...] Read more ›
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Japanese firm Kepple Africa Ventures, the most active VC company in the African tech space in 2020, is having an even stronger 2021, having backed 22 startups in the first seven months of the year. Founded by Ryosuke Yamawaki and Takahiro Kanzaki in December 2018, Kepple Africa Ventures has offices in Nairobi and Lagos and [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian credit card management and financial wellness platform CreditFins has closed a pre-seed round of investment to help it further develop its product and build its customer base. CreditFins helps users repay their credit card debt while saving money, offering a cheaper, more convenient solution for debt repayment through fixed, lower monthly installments as part [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the second edition of the V8 Growth Labs accelerator programme, which offers African founders access to mentorship, business development and up to US$50,000 in capital. The three-month V8 Growth Labs Accelerator, sponsored by V8 Capital Partners, targets African founders solving significant African problems in areas such as financial services, healthcare, education, [...] Read more ›
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Ghanaian agri-tech startup DigiExt is helping farm cooperatives grow via a variety of tech-based platforms and then assisting them in selling their produce to processing companies and export agencies. Launched in 2017, DigiExt helps farmers sell their produce, access credit, and provides low-cost and convenient ICT-enabled agricultural extension services. The startup gathers data by satellites [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian fintech startup Piggyvest, which helps around three million users save and invest money, has acquired counterpart Savi.ng as it looks to build its customer base further. Launched in 2016 as Piggybank before a 2019 rebrand, Piggyvest is an online savings and investment platform targeted primarily at low and middle income Nigerians, allowing them to [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian e-health startup Field Intelligence, which is digitising the supply chain and transforming access to essential, life-saving medicine, has announced its expansion into 11 new cities across Nigeria and Kenya as it crosses the 1.4 million threshold of serviced patients. Founded in 2015, Field Intelligence is the leading pharmaceutical supply chain provider within Nigeria and [...] Read more ›
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Twenty-five African female-founded tech startups have been selected for the second edition of The Future is Female Mentorship Programme, which will provide them with insights into the fundamentals of PR and communications and help them understand how to leverage this knowledge to gain visibility and build their brand. Run by C. Moore Media, a New [...] Read more ›
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Many African tech startups are solving life and death challenges on the continent, in areas as diverse as health, education and income equality. But sometimes, getting hold of a good cup of coffee can feel just as important. And inevitably, in South Africa, there is an app for that. Launched in April 2019, Coffee Monster [...] Read more ›
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Egypt-founded ride-sharing startup Swvl is set for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange after a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that values it at US$1.5 billion – making it a rare African “unicorn”. Founded by Mostafa Kandil in 2017, Swvl is a mass-transit system that enables riders heading in [...] Read more ›
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