Nigerian startup Releaf, which develops proprietary hardware and software solutions to drive the industrialisation of food processing in Africa, is planning to expand into more crops and additional West African markets. Releaf was founded in 2017, and took part in the Y Combinator accelerator programme in Silicon Valley the same year, but only started operations [...] Read more ›
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Cairo-based prop-tech startup Nawy has raised a seven-figure seed funding round to bolster its technology, diversify its services, and expand its team to serve more areas across Egypt. Founded in 2016 by Mohamed Abou Ghanima, Abdel-Azim Osman, Ahmed Rafea, Aly Rafea, and Mostafa El Beltagy, Nawy allows users to browse houses online using customisable criteria [...] Read more ›
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Rwandan startup Bafana has launched a platform that provides African artists, creators and athletes with the necessary tools to connect with and raise funds from their fans around the world. Founded in October 2020 by Yves Mugenga and Isaac Muraganwa, both recent graduates of the African Leadership University, Bafana allows artists or athletes to create [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Releaf, which develops proprietary hardware and software solutions to drive the industrialisation of food processing in Africa, is planning to expand into more crops and additional West African markets after closing its seed round earlier this year. Releaf was founded in 2017, and took part in the Y Combinator accelerator programme in Silicon [...] Read more ›
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Japan-based VC Samurai Incubate has made six investments in African tech startups across various countries and stages so far this year. Founded in 2008, Samurai Incubate has launched and managed six funds in Japan, through which it has backed around 130 startups. Samurai Incubate Africa was established in May 2018, and has so far invested [...] Read more ›
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Ivory Coast-based fintech startup Julaya, which provides businesses and institutions with an online platform to disburse payments to mobile money and mobile banking wallets, has received US$2 million in pre-Series A funding to grow and expand its product in West Africa. Founded in 2018 by Mathias Léopoldie and Charles Talbot, Julaya has a customer base [...] Read more ›
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Eleven African startups are among the 20 winners of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize, gaining access to the Seedstars Investment Readiness Programme and a network of partners, mentors and investors. Swiss company Seedstars, which works to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship, partnered the Peace and Human Rights Division of the Swiss [...] Read more ›
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Cairo-based online household shopping service GoodsMart has raised US$3.6 million in funding to accelerate market expansion. Founded in 2014, GoodsMart allows customers to browse thousands of premium grocery and home products from a variety of shops and suppliers, place orders, and have goods delivered to their door. The startup, which last raised funding from Algebra [...] Read more ›
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Olumide Soyombo, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors in tech startups, has launched Voltron Capital, a pan-African VC firm that will make pre-seed and seed investments in elite tech founders tackling critical problems in the continent’s largest markets. Voltron Capital will deploy capital in up to 30 startups across a range of sectors, with [...] Read more ›
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South African payments and software startup Yoco has secured US$83 million in Series C funding to accelerate the development of its platform and expand internationally. Yoco builds tools and services to help small businesses accept card payments in-store and online, access loans, and manage their day to day activities. In less than six years, the [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian mobile game developer Maliyo Games has partnered Google to launch the #GameUp Bootcamp game developer training programme in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Maliyo is a Lagos-based game development studio with more than 40 mobile games in its portfolio. Its #GameUp Bootcamp, launched in partnership with Google, is designed for individuals with basic programming knowledge [...] Read more ›
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Zimbabwe’s Thumeza, which provides small-scale transporters with immediately accessible working capital, is planning on expanding across the SADC region after impressive early growth and the validation of being accepted into two major accelerator programmes. Founded in April 2018 by Gugulethu Siso, Thumeza started life as a peer-to-peer last mile service provider, with a vision of [...] Read more ›
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South African insurtech startup Pineapple has raised ZAR80 million (US$3.4 million) in Series A funding as it looks to expand further into the car insurance space off the back of growing by 200 per cent in the last six months. Launched in 2018 and an alumnus of the Google Launchpad Africa accelerator, Pineapple allows users [...] Read more ›
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Manufacturing tech leader Guidewheel, which began life as Safi in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, has closed a US$8 million Series A funding round to power its ongoing expansion in the United States (US). Based out of Nairobi as Safi from 2018-2020, Guidewheel is a leader in cloud-powered factory operations, empowering factories to digitise their operations [...] Read more ›
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The Johannesburg-based Convergence Partners, a private equity investor focused on the technology sector across sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the successful first close of its third fund, the Convergence Partners Digital Infrastructure Fund (CPDIF), at US$120 million. Founded in 2006, Convergence Partners invests as value-adding partners into private equity and infrastructure opportunities in technology and digital [...] Read more ›
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Pan-African innovation hub network AfriLabs has added an additional 24 new members to expand its total membership to 292 across 49 countries. Founded in 2011, AfriLabs is a network of technology innovation hubs on the continent, with a mission to support the growth of these hubs and their communities to raise high potential entrepreneurs that [...] Read more ›
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The Ghanaian tech space has received some major exposure in recent months after the April announcement that Twitter was to make the country the site of its Africa headquarters, and subsequent news that the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey actually plans to relocate there for a while as well. According to [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup KOSA AI, an automated responsible AI systems platform, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed funding round to help it grow. Founded by Layla Li and Sonali Sanghrajka in Nairobi, KOSA AI enables organisations across healthcare, hiring and HR, credit and risk, and insurance to build or deploy more inclusive technologies. With companies across the [...] Read more ›
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Bicycle community delivery platform Errand360 has launched in Nigeria, built to serve users with demand for quick and short errands within their communities and on-demand delivery services.  Errand360 bicycles serve users with a variety of delivery services, with the first phase of rollout beginning in Lagos and users able to access its services via mobile [...] Read more ›
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Six locally-led Ugandan entrepreneur support organisations (ESOs) have received training and US$200,000 in grant funding after taking part in Village Capital’s first place-based ESO training programme. Village Capital runs a host of accelerators across Africa using its innovative peer-selection method, and recently completed its first ever place-based ESO accelerator, supporting 13 locally-led incubators, accelerators and [...] Read more ›
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