South African ed-tech startup iXperience has secured a US$2.5 million Series A funding round to build out its product and scale internationally. Founded in 2013 by Aaron Fuchs and Rafi Khan, the Cape Town-based iXperience started life as a coding bootcamp and has since become an industry leader in career-focused skills training. To date, it [...] Read more ›
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Two Ivory Coast-based fintech startups have secured funding from VC firm I&P through its I&P Acceleration Technologies programme, which is funded by the French development agency. I&P Acceleration Technologies is a EUR2.5 million (US$3 million) programme that will finance and support around 15 digital startups in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on West Africa, Central [...] Read more ›
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Gozem, the super app already operational in several West African cities, has launched a taxi booking service in Libreville, Gabon. Launched in Togo in November of 2018, Gozem swiftly expanded to Benin and added to its transport offering with auto-rickshaws. Last year, the startup launched e-commerce delivery services in Lome and Cotonou, allowing users to [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startups MarketForce and Pezesha have partnered to offer affordable inventory and wholesale distribution financing to MarketForce merchants. MarketForce enables consumer brands to optimise how they deliver essential goods and services to retailers and consumers by bridging the information gap in last mile distribution, while maximising efficiency across the sales and distribution value chain. Pezesha, [...] Read more ›
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South African payments startup SnapScan is one of the continent’s most obvious success stories, having been acquired by Standard Bank back in 2016. Having sought new challenges in 2019, the startup’s founders are now back in the entrepreneurial game with HR platform Radar. Kobus Ehlers and Gerrit Greeff spent close to a decade building various [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian social and video commerce platform Rabawa has raised US$163,000 in funding to help it scale its operations. Launched this year, Rabawa allows resellers to leverage social media for curating, promoting, and selling products from manufacturers and distributors to end-users. It gives resellers access to a virtual shop and thousands of products from trusted suppliers. Over [...] Read more ›
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GIZ Egypt has partnered the Egyptian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA), Endure Capital and Changelabs to launch a EUR100 million (US$120 million) funding programme for first-time venture capital (VC) funds. The year-long “VC University” programme offers new fund managers access to between EUR25 million (US$30 million) and EUR30 million (US$36 million) and [...] Read more ›
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The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation have partnered to launch a US$2 million agri-tech aimed at supporting innovative solutions in the farming space. The agri-tech prize is part of the wider Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize programme, a multi-year initiative to focus global innovators and entrepreneurs on developing technological solutions that accelerate progress towards implementing the [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian agri-tech startup Farmula is building the B2B digital infrastructure that makes it possible for farmers and bulk buyers to directly interact, driving up margins on both ends of the chain. Formed in 2019 by Vivian Opondoh, Ahmed Madani, Jackline Kimani and Ibrahim Abdulmalik after they met while taking part in the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian payments platform Paystack has launched operations in South Africa after a six-month pilot, with the country becoming the startup’s third market in Africa and first new destination since its acquisition by Stripe in October. Launched in January 2016 by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, Paystack is a payments company that helps businesses in Africa [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian logistics startup Flextock has raised a US$3.25 million pre-seed funding round to expand across the MENA region. Launched in January 2021, Flextock is a tech-enabled e-commerce fulfillment provider in the Middle East, which tags, packages, and ships products for merchants seeking to launch or scale their online commerce capabilities, leveraging relationships with logistics companies [...] Read more ›
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Rwandan startup Kasha, which allows women across rural and urban locations to make confidential personal care orders, has secured funding from Mastercard to scale its impact. Launched in July 2016, Kasha sells menstrual care products, contraceptives, pharmaceuticals and a range of beauty products, and delivers to customers confidentially. The startup allows customers to place orders [...] Read more ›
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Kenya-based fintech startup AZA Finance has taken on additional funding of US$20 million over the last 18 months, and has now expanded into South Africa with the acquisition of cross-border payments specialist Exchange4Free. AZA Finance is an established provider of currency trading solutions that expand global access to frontier markets through an innovative API and [...] Read more ›
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South African startup Carry1st, a mobile games publishing platform that enables global gaming studios to unlock the untapped African market, has raised US$6 million in Series A funding to help it scale further. Launched in 2019 and based in Cape Town, Carry1st is a mobile games publisher serving the first generation of African smartphone users [...] Read more ›
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Kenya-based B2B and B2B2C insurance-as-a-service platform and API provider Lami has raised US$1.8 million in seed funding to enhance the capabilities of its offering and expand across Africa. Founded by Jihan Abass in 2018, Lami is a digital insurance platform that enables partner businesses – including banks, tech companies, and other entities – to easily [...] Read more ›
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Ivory Coast-based e-commerce startup Afrikrea has launched a new software as a service (SaaS) platform to power omnichannel global selling for African micro retailers. Founded in 2016, Afrikrea is a marketplace for the selling and buying of African-inspired clothing, accessories, arts and crafts. The platform has 7,000 sellers across 47 African countries, and records over [...] Read more ›
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Five Kenyan startups have been selected to take part in the NINJA Accelerator, powered by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which offers access to a tailored programme and the chance to scale internationally. Disrupt Africa reported in February JICA, which coordinates official development assistance for the Japanese government in developing countries, was expanding its [...] Read more ›
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Kenya-based B2B and B2B2C insurance-as-a-service platform and API provider Lami has raised US$1.8 million in seed funding to enhance the capabilities of its offering and expand across Africa. Founded by Jihan Abass in 2018, Lami is a digital insurance platform that enables partner businesses – including banks, tech companies, and other entities – to easily [...] Read more ›
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Ugandan fintech startup Ensibuuko has raised a US$1 million funding round to help it scale at home and abroad. Founded in 2014, Ensibuuko operates a proprietary microfinance platform developed especially for African credit unions (SACCOs) and savings groups. The software helps community-based microfinance entities automate their data, processes and payments so as to become efficient [...] Read more ›
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TAZ Technologies, the company behind innovative Kenyan last mile delivery service MPOST, has partnered the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) in a move that will see letters and parcels delivered to a customer’s doorstep. Founded in 2015 by Abdulaziz Omar and Twahir Mohamed, MPost is a platform that enables the conversion of mobile numbers into official [...] Read more ›
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