South African startup Nile has launched a tech-enabled sourcing platform that facilitates the wholesale trade of fresh produce, connecting farmers directly with buyers. A B2B e-commerce platform, Nile aggregate supply across the SADC region to offer buyers access to high quality fresh produce at transparent prices. “Our platform makes it easy and safe to trade fresh produce [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian telemedicine startup Docspert Health has closed a six-figure US dollar seed funding round to help it expand its services across all of Egypt, and then into the Arabian Gulf. Launched in February 2020 by a team of medical doctors, Docspert Health connects patients in the Middle East and Africa with leading international medical experts [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana, which utilises artificial intelligence (AI) to run a behaviour-based credit-scoring system, has raised a US$1 million pre-seed funding round to help it expand. Founded last year, Cassbana uses machine learning and AI to offer financial identities for underserved and unbanked consumers, with its technology and data, sourced through an Android app, [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup InstaNovella has launched a social community to help African writers connect with readers and opportunities to monetise their skills. Co-founded in June 2020 by Dandy Jackson Chukwudi and Awaji-Itimikpang Abadi, who had run a Facebook community of writers that reached 2.1 million members, InstaNovella is aiming to create social communities around stories from [...] Read more ›
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The Kenya-founded data analytics company Gro Intelligence has raised a US$85 million Series B funding round, by some way the largest funding round ever raised by an African tech startup, to accelerate the growth and global adoption of its platform. Founded in Nairobi in 2014 and now also with offices in New York, Gro Intelligence [...] 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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Early-stage funding has proven a problematic gap within Africa’s startup space, but developments in 2020 went some way to addressing that. The funding gap in the early stage of a startup’s life is sizeable, and poses all sorts of challenges. At best estimates, less than 20 per cent of all VC funding in Africa in [...] Read more ›
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Early-stage funding has proven a problematic gap within Africa’s startup space, but developments in 2020 went some way to addressing that. The funding gap in the early stage of a startup’s life is sizeable, and poses all sorts of challenges. At best estimates, less than 20 per cent of all VC funding in Africa in [...] Read more ›
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Early-stage funding has proven a problematic gap within Africa’s startup space, but developments in 2020 went some way to addressing that. The funding gap in the early stage of a startup’s life is sizeable, and poses all sorts of challenges. At best estimates, less than 20 per cent of all VC funding in Africa in [...] Read more ›
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Cameroonian startup Taaply is focused on digitising business cards in a bid to cut down on carbon emissions in Africa. Initially founded in the United States (US), Taaply relocated to Cameroon in August of last year. The startup has created a plastic card that stores all a user’s business and personal information in one place. [...] Read more ›
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Ventures Platform Foundation, the social impact arm of Ventures Platform Hub, has launched a call for applications for its latest incubation programme, Gov Labs – a 12-week programme for tech solutions implementing accountability and transparency within the Nigerian government’s COVID-19 response. The foundation said the new initiative, created with support from the National Endowment for [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Nawah Scientific, a platform for the outsourcing of scientific services and research experiments, has a second pre-Series A funding round worth US$1 million to help it further expand its capabilities and move into new verticals. Founded in 2015, Nawah Scientific is an online platform that receives experiment requests, collects samples, conducts tests and [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian logistics startup MVXchange has partnered Japanese firm Standage in a move that will strengthen and simplify trade links between the two countries. Launched in 2019, MVXchange is a maritime trade and logistics platform with platforms that match demand for offshore support vessels in the energy industry and provide digital freight forwarding, customs and in-land [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Uncover Skincare, born out of Antler’s Nairobi incubator, has launched what it says is a “one stop shop for skincare”, availing knowledge and products from Korea to revolutionise the skincare experience in Africa. Uncover Skincare was founded by Sneha Mehta and Catherine Lee after they took part in the Nairobi-based Antler accelerator, which [...] Read more ›
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Early-stage funding has proven a problematic gap within Africa’s startup space, but developments in 2020 went some way to addressing that. The funding gap in the early stage of a startup’s life is sizeable, and poses all sorts of challenges. At best estimates, less than 20 per cent of all VC funding in Africa in [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian book summary mobile app Akhdar has raised a six-figure US dollar seed funding round to help it further develop its product. Founded in 2017 by Mohamed Osama, Akhdar began life as a YouTube channel summarising books through short and engaging videos, helping readers to grasp the main ideas presented by those books. The startup [...] Read more ›
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Ethiopian taxi-hailing startup Catch has launched its offering in Nairobi, Kenya after seeing strong initial uptake at home. Founded in 2019, Catch began its product release in June 2020 in Addis Ababa, and has onboarded more than 12,000 drivers and 50,000 riders. The startup claims to stand apart from bigger rivals such as Uber through [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian logistics startup Sprint has plans to expand to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and other countries in the MENA region after signing up almost 500 merchant customers at home. Founded by Mohamed Deif in 2019, the Cairo-based Sprint offers last mile delivery solutions to e-commerce merchants, with a focus on micro-merchants with monthly volumes [...] Read more ›
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While 2020 has been devastating for many industries, the crypto economy is ending the year on a high note. Here are some of the trends that put the crypto industry on the pedestal of global economic growth. Growth fuelled by emerging markets The emerging countries are still driving growth despite the pandemic, which is especially [...] Read more ›
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It has been a tough past year in many respects, but the African startup space has shown great strength and tenacity in the face of adversity, and we’ve had a constant stream of positive news stories coming from startups continent-wide throughout 2020. But who impressed us the most over the past year? Who should you [...] Read more ›
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