Egyptian startup Eksab, a daily fantasy sports platform, has raised US$500,000 in funding to help it reach more football fans across the Middle East and Africa. Eksab is looking to tap into the MENA region’s love for football by providing users with exciting and engaging mobile games. Users download the app, make predictions about live [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Motoqaa has launched a digital lease-to-own vehicle marketplace that helps drivers acquire vehicles over time. Rolled out in June, Motoqaa provides managed services for peer-to-peer lease-to-own contracts for vehicles in the taxi-hailing business. “We source for drivers, collect payments and manage operations necessary to keep the vehicles and drivers on the road,” Mugambi [...] Read more ›
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Zachariah George is the wearer of many hats – co-founder of the Startupbootcamp AfriTech accelerator, principal at Nedbank Venture Capital, and active angel investor. As an angel, George is especially busy. He has made around 50 angel investments since moving to South Africa in 2010, initially all in the financial services space. After building Startupbootcamp [...] Read more ›
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Foundation Ventures, a regional venture capital firm founded at the start of 2019, has announced the close of its first Egypt-focused fund, with four investments made so far. Managed by Mazen Nadim, Omar Barakat, and Ziyad Hamdy, in partnership with HOF Capital, a US based VC firm, and BPE Partners, Foundation Ventures backs best-in-class founders [...] Read more ›
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Zimbabwean startup Wellnescript has launched an online marketplace through which employers can purchase wellness video modules for their employees. Formed in 2019 as a spinout from a digital platform for diabetes and hypertension, Wellnescript lists video modules from independent domain experts on the eight dimensions of wellness, and companies buy access for their employees. The [...] Read more ›
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Carl Wallace has been around the block of South Africa’s startup world a time or two, founding a bunch of companies and raising several funding rounds. Now, he’s back with a tool that will help companies work better remotely, and he’s funding it himself. A quick look at Wallace’s LinkedIn gives you a snapshot of [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup ExpandCart, an e-commerce and retail platform, has secured US$2.5 million in Series A funding to help it continue to grow. Used by more than 20,000 merchants in over 40 countries, ExpandCart provides comprehensive eCommerce solutions to enable merchants and retailers to build their online stores and expand their sales. The startup’s omni-channel selling [...] Read more ›
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Applications for the second Venture for Africa cohort are now open, helping to connect top local and global talent with fast-growing African tech startups. Disrupt Africa reported in May on the launch of Venture for Africa, which aims to fill talent gaps at African startups via a three-month immersive fellowship programme. After a successful inaugural [...] Read more ›
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As with the African e-health space, ed-tech on the continent has received a bit of a boost from the lockdowns enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. A database published by the EdTech Hub back in May demonstrated that use of ed-tech products serving African countries doubled over the course of the previous month, as schools across [...] Read more ›
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Tunisian startup Onboard, which is transforming customer experience management for hardware with 3D smart manuals, has raised US$175,000 in funding to support its solution development and expansion within the European market. Founded by Safwen Bouali, Cherif Redissi, and Amine Troudi in 2017, Onboard is a SaaS platform solution that enables hardware makers to create best-in-class [...] Read more ›
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Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and the AUC Venture Lab accelerator are collaborating on Startup Launchpad, a capacity-building programme that aims to empower local entrepreneurs as they launch their technology startups. The partnership between ITIDA and AUC Venture Lab, the accelerator programme based at the American University in Cairo (AUC), aims to support [...] Read more ›
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Seso Global, a one-stop platform for property management and transactions that began life in Nigeria, has expanded to South Africa and Ghana and is looking even further afield as it focuses on addressing a major challenge on the continent. Launched in Nigeria in June 2019, Seso has developed a customer relationship management (CRM) portal that [...] 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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Nigerian bus-hailing app Plentywaka has launched WakaCab, a new car-hailing service with fully-trained drivers for commuters, in Delta State, starting with Asaba. Plentywaka launched its services in the second half of last year, and since then has built a platform of over 40,000 customers that has seen substantial growth since the beginning of 2020. It [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian fintech startup Raseedy has launched its country’s first independent digital wallet, filling a gap in the payments market by allowing users to transfer money, purchase via QR code, and more, from their phones. Founded by Jacques and Karl Marco in 2018, Raseedy has launched its digital wallet in partnership with saib bank and Mastercard. [...] Read more ›
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The London-headquartered VC firm C5 Capital has a portfolio of 80 companies operating on every continent, including Antarctica, but it has big ties to Africa in particular. The firm’s founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Andre Pienaar is originally from South Africa, where he was a lawyer before becoming an entrepreneur and ultimately an investor. [...] Read more ›
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Cape Town-based online retailer Yebo Fresh, which delivers food and household goods to communities and organisations, has raised a Series A funding round as it prepares to expand nationwide. Launched in 2018 in the garage of founder Jessica Boonstra’s home, Yebo Fresh is an online shopping service for township communities, delivering groceries to areas that [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan mobility startup QuickBus is gearing up to launch in Nigeria and Ghana after witnessing impressive growth in the five markets it is already operating in. Launched in 2019, QuickBus aggregates long distance bus tickets in a marketplace, making it easier for users to compare prices and book journeys, and helping bus companies run their [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian social payments app for cash and cryptocurrencies Bundle has launched operations in Ghana, and plans to be active in several more African countries by the end of 2020. Disrupt Africa reported in April on the launch of Bundle, which allows users to request, send and receive cash or crypto from their peers. Users are [...] Read more ›
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South African ed-tech startup The Student Hub has become the fourth startup to secure backing from Naspers Foundry, raising ZAR45 million (US$2.9 million) to help it expand. The Student Hub increases access to vocational education to large numbers of students, whilst reducing the costs of delivery of education and training, by partnering with government accredited [...] Read more ›
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