Only founders with personal experience of the challenges and realities of their target market can build sustainable businesses in Africa, which is why investors should back startups with at least one equity holding African in their team, according to panelists at the recently concluded Africa Tech Summit Connects. Discussing how diversity impacts outcomes in the [...] Read more ›
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Johannesburg-based startup AfriNova Digital has launched an online app that allows consumers to buy electricity and airtime online, without having to leave their homes. AfriNova Digital, which builds digital products across many areas such as education and training, utilities, cities and municipalities, and retail, said its launch of digiToken was perfectly timed given the COVID-19 [...] Read more ›
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Having secured an extraordinary 85 per cent market share of mobile wallet transactions at home in Egypt, fintech startup Paymob has eyes on even greater prizes. 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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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected not only the ways in which we do business but has also impacted the investment climate in all sectors and regions. Nevertheless, the structural and behavioural change the pandemic has wrought creates an opportunity for new business models, particularly in the digital and tech space. Bringo Fresh, Cookshop, eMsika, [...] Read more ›
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South African startup Karri, which helps schools collect payments from parents via a mobile app, has launched a new feature that allows schools to screen students for COVID-19 before they arrive in the premises. Founded in 2017 in partnership with Nedbank, Karri began with a pilot in four schools across the Western Cape, but is [...] Read more ›
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Botswanan startup Ponatshego has launched a digital marketplace that helps vendors sell all types of goods to customers online. Founded in July of year by Motshidisi Joseph Ngaiti and William George Whittle, Ponatshego was built to ease the way in which business is done in Botswana and the rest of Africa. “The main mission of [...] Read more ›
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African logistics startups are part of a “third wave” of Africa’s tech revolution that is attracting investors because of its access to high profile customers, clear paths to profitability, and expert founders. Logistics as a sector is on the rise in Africa, with startups across the continent tackling bottlenecks and inefficiencies in all sorts of [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Data Integrated, which provides matatu cooperatives with bus management and digital ticketing systems, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from the Toyota Tsusho Corporation. Founded in 2012, Data Integrated provides around 3,000 bus operators under 40 matatu cooperatives with access to bus management and digital ticketing platform, helping to make public transport [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup KonstructApp has launched a construction networking platform that helps individuals and businesses obtain quick and low-cost access to verified construction services. Founded in 2018 but only launched in August 2020, KonstructApp aims to stimulate Africa’s construction value chain, responding to the industry challenges such as safety concerns, low marketing budgets, high search cost, [...] Read more ›
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South African startup United African Stokvel is digitising the processes of traditional informal savings unions in South Africa, encouraging its members to save money and reward them for doing so. In South Africa, informal credit unions in which members contribute a fixed amount of money to a common pool weekly, fortnightly or monthly are called [...] Read more ›
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Ugandan ed-tech startup KAINO has developed a homeschooling app for early childhood development (ECD) in response to the closure of schools in the country as a result of COVID-19. When Disrupt Africa first reported on KAINO in late 2018, the startup was in the process of piloting its e-learning solution KAINOtab, offering teachers, students and [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup SOKNA, whose name means “calmness” or “tranquility” in Arabic, has launched an end-to-end funeral services platform, aimed at providing families with professional expertise to take care of all logistics during the difficult moments of losing a loved one. SOKNA handles the full array of funerary services, including but not limited to support in [...] Read more ›
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Crowd-investing of farmers in Africa was pioneered by Nigeria’s Farmcrowdy, but the model has since been used and adapted by a host more startups – Thrive Agric (which has run into some difficulties of late), Seekewa, Complete Farmer, BaySeddo, YouFarm and Livestock Wealth, to name just a few. The latest company trying to make a [...] Read more ›
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For most African start-ups and scale-up businesses being battered by the myriad effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the few ‘silver linings’ of the crisis is the hope of coming out stronger on the other side. But that won’t happen automatically – it will require taking proactive steps now to invest in that outcome. [...] Read more ›
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Secha Capital Partners has announced the first close of its second fund, Secha Capital Impact, a Southern Africa early-stage operations-focused impact private equity fund. The ZAR400 million (US$30 million) Secha Capital Fund II builds on the success of Secha’s highly differentiated inaugural fund, and will invest up to ZAR12 million (US$730,000) into established Southern African [...] Read more ›
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South African startup eVuna has launched an insight crowdsourcing platform that enables a sponsor to digitally connect with an audience, either known or unknown, and rewards the audience for their engagement. Launched in September, eVuna uses rewards to gamify the engagement experience in order to get closer to audiences, better understand their needs, and entrench [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Hatixa has entered into a joint venture with United Kingdom (UK) firm BrandMobile to launch BrandMobile Africa, with the goal of creating a scalable ad-tech product built on gamification principles. Founded by Toby Nwanede and Habeeb Aremu in 2017, Hatixa initially focused on media productions before developing a product called PEEP, that would [...] Read more ›
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Cape Town-based insurtech company Click2Sure has raised a multi-million rand investment from US-based VC firm SixThirty to help it further develop its product. Launched in 2017, Click2Sure is a full stack digital insurance platform which enables retailers, service providers, distributors and brokers to bolt on a selection of over 20 custom-developed insurance products at the [...] Read more ›
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Moniepoint, the mobile money platform launched last year by Nigerian fintech startup TeamApt, has become the largest non-bank mobile money service in the country, processing 13 million transactions monthly. Launched in 2015, the Lagos-based TeamApt was formed to solve inefficiencies in Nigeria’s growing digital financial services market, and has a variety of products, including payments [...] Read more ›
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