Nigerian prop-tech startup Spleet is expanding to Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya this year as it transitions towards an Airbnb-style self-hosting model for Nigerians travelling abroad. Founded in August 2017 from the need to find rentals with flexible payment options in Lagos as opposed to the usual one or two year upfront payment options, Spleet allows [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the seventh edition of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), which will provide startups with training, mentorship and US$5,000 in funding. The programme, run by the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), is a 10-year, US$100 million commitment to identify, train, mentor and fund 10,000 African entrepreneurs by 2024. Applications have now opened [...] 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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Nigerian prop-tech startup Spleet is expanding to Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya this year as it transitions towards an Airbnb-style self-hosting model for Nigerians travelling abroad. Founded in August 2017 from the need to find rentals with flexible payment options in Lagos as opposed to the usual one or two year upfront payment options, Spleet allows [...] Read more ›
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Cameroonian startup Dikalo, which has developed a social network designed to help people communicate with ease and safety, has passed the 120,00 user mark and has ambitions to be used all over Africa. Disrupt Africa first reported on Dikalo back in 2018, and since then the startup has gone from strength to strength. It works [...] Read more ›
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Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has announced the winners of the second edition of its African App Launchpad competition, awarding a total of US$72,000 to startups from across the continent. ITIDA first held the African App Launchpad competition last year, with six startups eventually sharing a total of US$60,000 in cash prizes. Disrupt [...] Read more ›
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Rwandan e-health startup Karisimbi Technology Solutions is helping hospitals go fully paperless, offering digital patient files that streamline service delivery and have so far been used to treat more than 30,000 patients. The Karisimbi journey began in 2016, when founder Angelo Igitego was accompanying one of his family members to a local hospital in Kigali. [...] Read more ›
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When the COVID-19 crisis hit Africa earlier this year, and countries went into varying degrees of lockdown, the prognosis for the continent’s early-stage startup ecosystem was not good. Funding in particular was meant to take a serious hit, and there were fears for the survival of many of the continent’s most exciting young businesses. Startups [...] Read more ›
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Back at the start of the year, Disrupt Africa unveiled its 12 African startups to watch in 2020. How did we get on with our predictions? Egyptian trucking marketplace Trella We said: “The team that told Disrupt Africa they are taking growth “step-by-step”, and not making any hasty moves – so we’re eagerly anticipating the [...] Read more ›
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Individual startup ecosystems across the continent, be they in South Africa, Nigeria or Kenya, may steal a lot of the limelight, but the African tech startup sector as a whole is growing at pace. Here are Disrupt Africa’s five biggest developments of the last 12 months. Paystack gets acquired This was a very big deal. [...] Read more ›
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Over the last couple of years, Egypt has established itself as one of the heavyweights when it comes to tech and startups on the African continent. In 2020, the local startup scene saw more funding flow in, and startups innovating across the country, but what were Disrupt Africa’s big five developments from the year? Vezeeta [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan retail-tech startup MarketForce has formalised its Troops project into a B2B wholesale e-commerce marketplace, which will leverage on gig workers for order collection and fulfilment but will also allow retailers to self-serve through a website and mobile app. Launched in 2018, MarketForce enables consumer brands to optimise how they deliver essential goods and services [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan e-health startup Damu-Sasa, which runs an innovative end-to-end blood services information management platform, has been awarded US$20,000 in grant funding from Villgro Africa to enable it to enhance its contributions to mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Damu-Sasa works across the entire blood ecosystem by helping hospitals source blood from donors and from each other, [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup truQ, an on-demand logistics platform that leverages technology to connect anyone who needs to move anything with the closest available vehicle, says it has seen strong uptake since launching in Lagos in February. truQ allows users to choose between different sizes of vehicles ranging from minivan to big truck, connects them to the [...] Read more ›
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Zambian startup PremierCredit, a micro-lending platform that also has operations in Zimbabwe, has raised US$650,000 in funding from Enygma Ventures to help it scale further. Launched in 2019, PremierCredit offers micro-loans to Zambian entrepreneurs and small scale traders, many of whom are women, increasing their access to capital and the ability to grow their businesses. [...] Read more ›
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Having had our concerns in the past about whether the Kenyan startup space was developing in the hoped-for manner, we can safely say our worries have proven misplaced as the ecosystem continues to grow. 2020 saw another few great leaps forward for the East African country’s tech startup ecosystem, but what were the five biggest [...] Read more ›
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Senegalese solar distributor Oolu has closed a US$8.5 million Series B investment round to help it accelerate its growth. Launched in 2015, Oolu aims to provide affordable energy access to rural and peri-urban customers in West Africa. So far, it has sold over 60,000 solar home systems to customers across its five markets – Nigeria, [...] Read more ›
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Kenya-based digital bank for emerging markets Umba has announced a US$2 million seed funding round to help it expand product capabilities. Currently operating in Kenya and Nigeria, Umba offers a safe, transparent and accessible digital financial service alternative to legacy African banks. The full service digital banking app is bringing the next generation of financial [...] Read more ›
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Ghanaian fintech startup Zeepay has raised a US$940,000 seed funding round to enable it to continue to scale and roll out its services across the continent. Zeepay is focused on digital rails to connect digital assets such as mobile money wallets, cards, ATMs, bank accounts and digital tokens to international money transfer operators, payments, subscriptions, [...] Read more ›
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Ghanaian fintech startup Zeepay has raised a US$940,000 seed funding round to enable it to continue to scale and roll out its services across the continent. Zeepay is focused on digital rails to connect digital assets such as mobile money wallets, cards, ATMs, bank accounts and digital tokens to international money transfer operators, payments, subscriptions, [...] Read more ›
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