Egyptian fintech startup Khazna has partnered Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) Egypt and Masria Digital Payments (MDP) to launch “Khazna Card”, a prepaid card linked to Khazna’s “super app” aimed at empowering Egypt’s labour force by extending world-class financial services. Founded in 2019, Khazna aims to provide mobile financial services to over 20 million underbanked [...] Read more ›
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Zimbabwean startup Bhala has launched a mobile virtual keyboard that uses machine learning and state-of-the-art deep learning models to improve the experience of writing in African languages. Rolled out in January, Bhala currently supports word auto-complete, spellcheck, and word prediction in ChiShona, IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, KiSwahili, Sepedi, Sesotho and SiSwati, with more coming soon. Director [...] Read more ›
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Ghana’s Motito, a “buy now, pay later” platform, is allowing small businesses to offer interest-free credit to their customers at point of sale, and has seen impressive initial uptake. One of three Ghanaian startups selected to receive equity-free grant funding and support from MEST and the Mastercard Foundation after the MEST Express accelerator programme, Motito [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Tareeqi, an application used to track the bus fleets of schools, universities and institutions in the MENA region without installing any expensive GPS devices, has been acquired by eMushrif, an Oman-based startup specialising in digital transport tracking systems. Founded by Alfarouk Saleh and Mohamed Monier in 2018, Tareeqi aims to solve the problems [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Helium Health, an electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital management information (HMI) systems provider, has announced the launch of its full suite of products and services in Kenya. Founded in 2016, Helium Health takes hospitals and clinics instantly digital with its flagship Electronic Medical Records/Hospital Management Information System (EMR/HMIS) product, the most widely [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan food-tech startup Kune, which delivers freshly-made, ready-to-eat meals at affordable prices, has closed a pre-seed funding round worth US$1 million to help it scale after a successful pilot. Founded by French entrepreneur Robin Reecht in 2020, Kune is a food delivery service that aims to provide busy, modern Nairobians with access to freshly prepared [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce startup DressCode has secured US$250,000 in funding to help it expand its offering, mostly in the home décor space. Founded in 2018 by Mohamed Abdel Dayem and Ali Zakaria, DressCode is an e-commerce retail platform that sells female clothing, beauty and home products, connecting Egyptian manufacturers directly to consumers. The [...] Read more ›
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Seven African tech startups have been named by the World Economic Forum (WEF) among its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2021 – companies that are shaping industries from healthcare to retail and many more. The WEF Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian prop-tech startup Seso Global has raised a US$600,000 pre-seed funding round as it bids to build on strong initial traction to challenge Salesforce in property management in emerging markets. Launched in Nigeria in June 2019, Seso has developed a customer relationship management (CRM) portal that enables property developers, agents and governments to manage their [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Fatura, which connects wholesalers and manufacturers with retailers across different industries, has closed a US$3 million pre-Series A funding round to allow it to offer new services and expand to new markets. Founded in 2019 by Hossam Ali, Ahmed Anwar and AbdAllah Mohebeldin, who were later joined by Ahmed Al Bakary, Fatura was [...] Read more ›
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Egypt-based matchmaking app Hawaya has expanded to 12 other countries and hit the four million user mark. Founded in April 2017 by Sameh Saleh, Shaymaa Ali, Tamer Saleh and Aly Khaled, who wanted to use technology to enhance the matchmaking process in a traditionally accepted manner, Hawaya has quickly grown in popularity, and has already [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup MarketForce, an end-to-end retail distribution platform for consumer brands, has announced the strategic acquisition of Digiduka, which aims to bring informal retailers in Africa into the digital economy. Launched in 2018, MarketForce enables consumer brands to optimise how they deliver essential goods and services to retailers and consumers by bridging the information gap [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan e-commerce startup Sky.Garden has closed a US$4 million round of Series A funding to accelerate its growth. Launched in May 2017, Sky.Garden is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for mobile commerce that is built specifically for African businesses. Its easy-to-use online marketplace allows informal traders, SMEs and established businesses to sell their products. Its technology [...] Read more ›
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Ethiopian logistics startup Eshi Express has raised funding from the Addis Ababa Angels (AAA) Network as it looks to expand across the country. Founded in 2017, Eshi Express is an on-demand deliveries platform that operates in Addis Ababa and two regional Ethiopian cities. Customers can arrange deliveries via app or call centre, and track those [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the 2021 uYilo Mobility Programme, which offers South African mobility startups up to ZAR1 million US$73,000) in grant funding aimed at assisting projects reach commercialisation into the market. The uYilo eMobility Programme first provided what it calls “kickstart” funding to qualifying mobility and assistive projects in 2014, when the fund was [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Farm365, a vegetable and fruit box delivery marketplace that sources quality farm produce directly from rural farmers and sells to businesses in urban areas, is looking for pre-seed funding as it bids to eradicate food wastage. Launched in 2020, Farm365 work closely with rural farmers to rescue seasonal vegetables from waste, connecting sellers [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian electronic e-commerce platform Tejarra has raised a six-figure US dollar seed funding round to help it scale more quickly. Launched in January by Islam Erfan, Tejarra offers an online B2B and B2C electronics marketplace for its 50 partner wholesalers, who are offering over 18,000 products including fridges, TVs, printers and mobile phones. The startup [...] Read more ›
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Three African blockchain startups have received grant funding from the UNICEF Venture Fund, which looks to support early-stage ventures in solving local and global challenges. The UNICEF Venture Fund is investing in seven blockchain startups in six countries after receiving 450 submissions from 77 countries, with solutions addressing the fact that 1.7 billion people around [...] Read more ›
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Cameroonian startup Prepdia is helping learners improve their outcomes by reliably connecting them with professional tutors for in-person and online lessons. Founded in 2019 and bootstrapped thus far, Prepdia was a platform born from founder Malieh Maxime’s own personal experiences after leaving school in 2015. “I aspired to be an engineer but my parents told [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian ed-tech startup iSchool has raised US$160,000 in pre-seed funding to develop an online platform, expand its offerings and expand across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Founded in 2018, by Mohamed Algawish, Mustafa AbdelMon’em, Ebrahim Youssef and Mohamed Nabil, iSchool offers STEAM-based learning experiences for children aged between six and 18. The [...] Read more ›
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