The annual Justice Accelerator is calling on innovative African startups changing lives and creating social impact to apply for a EUR10,000 (US$12,000) grant to grow their business. The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) is calling on all game-changing justice startups to participate in this year’s HiiL Innovating Justice Challenge, the focus areas of [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian digital payments provider Paymob has closed its Series A funding round at US$18.5 million, funds it will use to expand its product and scale regionally. Founded in 2015 by Islam Shawky, Alain El Hajj and Mostafa Menessy, Paymob is an infrastructure technology enabler providing payment solutions to empower digital financial service providers through mobile [...] Read more ›
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Disrupt Podcast offers listeners a fortnightly wrap-up of all the developments in the African tech startup ecosystem, interviews with key players, and audio pitches from innovative companies. Increasing access to information and analysis of the African startup scene is at the heart of Disrupt Africa’s mission, and its content offering is now broader with the [...] Read more ›
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Zambia-based startup JGo Africa has launched its super app, offering more than 60 on-demand services, as it bids to become the “WeChat of Africa”. Founded by Nchindu Siabuluba, JGo Africa is a multi-service platform that includes offerings such as delivery services, ride hailing, resource sharing, a digital wallet, and social networking. It launched last month, [...] Read more ›
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Five African startups are among those to have received grant capital from the GSMA as part of its Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion, which is backing startups in Africa and Asia that help to increase mobile internet adoption and usage. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion [...] Read more ›
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Tunisian startup PraxiLabs is working to provide people with equal opportunities to obtain an enhanced science education by providing 3D interactive virtual simulations that are safe, affordable and accessible anytime, anywhere, for educational institutions and students alike. Launched in 2016, PraxiLabs is an online learning platform providing interactive science labs for students, even enabling scientific [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup PraxiLabs is working to provide people with equal opportunities to obtain an enhanced science education by providing 3D interactive virtual simulations that are safe, affordable and accessible anytime, anywhere, for educational institutions and students alike. Launched in 2016, PraxiLabs is an online learning platform providing interactive science labs for students, even enabling scientific [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian VC firm Algebra Ventures has announced the launch of its US$90 million second fund, which is targeting a first closing in Q3 of 2021 and aims to double down on the success of its first fund. Four years into its first US$54 million fund, Algebra Ventures has invested in 21 startups, including Trella, elmenus, [...] Read more ›
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Seven African tech startups will compete in the Seedstars World regional finals next week for a place in the grand final and the chance to secure US$500,000 in equity investment. The annual Seedstars World competition, which is taking place virtually for this cycle, received over 5,000 applicants from across the world, with 94 startups from [...] Read more ›
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The Kenyan capital Nairobi is among the 10 most congested cities in the world, with the average commute time standing at 57 minutes – mostly as a result of heavy personal vehicle use and slow public transport services. Approximately 8,000 new vehicles appear on the roads each month, an unsustainable volume but growth that is [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan fintech startup Koa has launched a mobile app that aims to digitise the asset management industry by giving users the ability to save and invest their money in local mutual funds from their phones. Formed in September by Alexis Roman and Delila Kidanu, Koa is currently in beta testing with a group of users, [...] Read more ›
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Applications are open for this year’s Africa’s Business Heroes competition, the Jack Ma Foundation’s flagship philanthropic programme in Africa which annually awards 10 outstanding finalists with a share of a US$1.5 million grant. In its third year, the Africa’s Business Heroes competition gives African entrepreneurs a platform to showcase their talent and grow their businesses. [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian fintech startup Xend Finance is applying decentralised finance (DeFi) to credit unions in a bid to optimise operations and provide better yields. Xend Finance, which in 2019 took part in the Google Launchpad Africa accelerator and the Binance Incubation Programme, has developed a platform that gives everyone access to the global money market so [...] Read more ›
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South African startup Apexman has launched an online wellness platform for men that aims to remove the burden of having to go to a doctor’s waiting room or queue at a pharmacy. Founded last year and soft-launched in January, Apexman allows men to be diagnosed and treated, all on their schedule from the comfort and [...] Read more ›
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The Yunus Environment Hub has opened applications for the second cohort of StartNow, an online course for social business plan creation, to entrepreneurs in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.  StartNow is a self-learning platform in which potential and early-stage entrepreneurs can interact to develop a social business plan step-by-step in eight weeks. It [...] Read more ›
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Tech founder, advisor and early-stage investor Victor Asemota tells us why Flutterwave, a startup he himself backed in its early days, becoming a “unicorn” is such a big deal and why the company is primed for more success. Just in case you have not heard it yet, Flutterwave is now a unicorn (a company with [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian venture capital (VC) firm Sawari Ventures has announced it has raised a EGP1 billion (US$63.8 million) fund for investments in innovation-driven startups. Founded in 2010, Sawari Ventures invests in technology companies across the ICT, hardware, education, healthcare, cleantech and fintech spheres. Led by Ahmed Al-Alfi, Hany Al-Sonbay and Wael Amin, it has invested in [...] Read more ›
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South African startup Sun Exchange has completed the crowdsale for a 510 kilowatt solar-plus-storage installation to solar power packhouse and cold store facilities for Zimbabwean agriculture leader Nhimbe Fresh, with approximately US$1.4 million of solar cells purchased by over 1,700 individuals across 98 countries. Launched in 2015, Sun Exchange is a a peer-to-peer solar leasing [...] Read more ›
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MEST, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has selected 14 startups for the first 2021 cohort of its MEST Express accelerator. Launched virtually in September 2020 in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early-stage ventures in Ghana, the 20-week MEST Express programme will offer selected startups free training, tailored mentorship and the [...] Read more ›
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South African security response platform AURA is continuing to expand its footprint internationally with a launch in the United Kingdom (UK), where it aims to have 10,000 users receiving the company’s service within seven months. AURA has developed a cloud-based security and safety platform that provides on-demand, geographically-variable security responses from an aggregated collection of [...] Read more ›
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