Nigerian fintech startup Creditchek is helping lenders mitigate credit risks by reliably verifying the creditworthiness of potential consumers in Africa. Founded in November 2021, Creditchek has developed an easy-to-use web app and API that leverages machine learning to turn raw data from multiple sources into actionable insights that lenders can use to strengthen their credit [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian customer engagement startup Termii has raised US$3.65 million in funding to further its expansion efforts, particularly in Francophone Africa. Founded by Emmanuel Gbolade and Tayo Awe in 2017, Termii helps businesses with their customer retention with affordable tools to personalise their messages across channels such as email, SMS, voice, and WhatsApp. The startup has [...] Read more ›
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Venture for Africa, a talent community and leading source for top tech startup hires on the continent, has opened applications for its second bootcamp offering. Venture for Africa is a community created to enable top global talent to transition into roles within the African tech startup ecosystem, with its flagship three-month fellowship exposing participants to [...] Read more ›
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Having a clear investment thesis, picking strong teams with large addressable markets, and spreading risk effectively are key aspects towards building a successful venture capital fund portfolio, say leading African tech investors. For the latest episode of Disrupt Podcast’s “The month in VC” series, produced in partnership with Katapult Africa, Kalon Venture Partners, Hlayisani Capital, [...] Read more ›
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Rology, the leading teleradiology company in the Middle East & Africa has acquired Arkan United, a teleradiology provider, headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that provides teleradiology. Founded by Amr AboDraiaa, Moaaz Hossam, Mahmoud Eldefrawy and Bassam Khallaf in October 2017, Rology has built a cloud-based platform that provides intelligent matchmaking between patients and remote radiologists, [...] Read more ›
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Fifteen startups from South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe have been announced as winners of this year’s Southern Africa Startup Awards, one of five regional competitions within the Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa. The announcement took place at the launch edition of GITEX Africa 2023 in Marrakech, Morocco, late last week. GITEX Africa 2023 is [...] Read more ›
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Every time a card transaction is made on a POS terminal, merchants lose a chance to identify and retain their customers. POS terminals were built to process payments, not to identify, or retain customers. But Egyptian startup Zeal has come up with a fix. Founded in 2020, Zeal has developed middleware that integrates on POS [...] Read more ›
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TechCircle Limited, in collaboration with SGgrow and SGverse, has launched Pitch2Win, an opportunity for innovative startups in the Web2 and Web3 space to showcase their groundbreaking ideas and vie for a chance to win a US$10,000 cash prize. Pitch2Win serves as a platform for exceptional innovators to gain invaluable exposure, access potential investment opportunities, and [...] Read more ›
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Fewer than 10 per cent of African tech startups are led by a female CEO, while less than 15 per cent even have a female co-founder, according to a groundbreaking study on gender diversity released by Disrupt Africa. Since launching its research arm in 2016, Disrupt Africa has built up a significant portfolio of publications, [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian e-health startup Helium Health has raised US$30 million in Series B funding to help it expand the reach of its fintech product HeliumCredit. Founded in 2016, Helium Health takes hospitals and clinics instantly digital with its flagship Electronic Medical Records/Hospital Management Information System (EMR/HMIS) product, the most widely used such solution in West Africa. [...] Read more ›
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Nairobi-based incubator iHub has announced the 12 startups selected for the Kenyan leg of the first Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship Programme, which offers selected companies access to funding and other types of support. Disrupt Africa reported in February Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) – which owns iHub – has announced a new partnership with the Mastercard Foundation [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian cloud kitchen startup FoodCourt is focused on making good food more accessible, through the curation of localised virtual restaurant brands. Launched in September 2021, the Lagos-based FoodCourt aims to give users the best possible user journey from their ordering experience to the moment they taste the food. “Consumer behaviour is changing in Africa, and [...] Read more ›
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Disrupt Africa has released the first ever publication focused on gender equality in the African tech startup landscape, in partnership with Africa-focused pre-seed investment programmes Madica, with the results demonstrating the lack of gender diversity both within startup teams and funding rounds on the continent. Since launching its research arm in 2016, Disrupt Africa has [...] Read more ›
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South African digital healthcare startup EMGuidance has launched a new digital prescription tool that promises to transform the way prescriptions are managed and shared. EMGuidance is a digital platform for clinical decision-making support in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The platform’s aims is to optimise patient-care outcomes by giving healthcare professionals access to advanced digital [...] Read more ›
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The new Deraya entrepreneurship initiative for young entrepreneurs seeks to build a dynamic ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurs and startups in Libya. Jointly developed by the Ministry of Local Government (MoLG), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Deraya initiative is designed [...] Read more ›
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Disrupt Africa has released the first ever publication focused on gender equality in the African tech startup landscape, in partnership with Africa-focused pre-seed investment programmes Madica, with the results demonstrating the lack of gender diversity both within startup teams and funding rounds on the continent. Since launching its research arm in 2016, Disrupt Africa has [...] Read more ›
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Afrorama, a new African encyclopaedia and information platform has been launched, providing a curated collection of articles, videos, and other multimedia content. The packaged, dynamic content presented by Afrorama includes information on arts and literature, business and politics, entertainment, geography and nature, history, sciences and technology and philosophy from pre-colonial times to the present day. [...] Read more ›
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Twenty-five African fintech startups have been selected for the inaugural Amazon Web Services (AWS) FinTech Africa Accelerator cohort. Disrupt Africa reported in March AWS, the cloud computing division for the world’s largest e-commerce retailer Amazon, had strengthened its footprint in Africa with a call for applications from early-stage startups to join the first edition of [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Grey is allowing users to easily exchange to local currency and access foreign currencies in their accounts. Launched in 2021 by Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo, Grey offers an international money transfer service that enables its users to send and receive international payments without restrictions quickly. Its products include foreign bank accounts, instant [...] Read more ›
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The Moroccan startup PrestaFreedom, a home services platform specialising in household subscriptions and other services for individuals, has raised MDH11 million (US$1.1 million) from the Azur Innovation Fund to accelerate its growth at the national and regional level. Founded in 2020, PrestaFreedom is a services platform that offers a recurring and personalised cleaning subscription, giving [...] Read more ›
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