South Korean government’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC), is inviting applications from startups and entrepreneurs from around the world for its 2022 edition. KSGC is hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA). African startups can leverage the KSGC [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan e-health startup Zuri Health has raised a US$1.3 million pre-seed round of funding to grow its product offerings and expand into new markets. Disrupt Africa reported in January 2021 on the launch of Zuri Health, a virtual, mobile-first, on-demand healthcare platform that helps patients quickly and easily access healthcare from certified healthcare providers, based [...] Read more ›
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Global non-profit organisation Habitat for Humanity has opened applications for the ShelterTech sub-Saharan Africa accelerator programme, aimed at startups with scalable solutions to today’s affordable housing challenges. ShelterTech is a platform for affordable housing innovation, working across sectors, industries and geographies to support and grow cutting-edge products and services that can improve housing conditions for [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian auto-tech startup Autochek has acquired Moroccan counterpart KIFAL Auto to drive its expansion into the North Africa region. Autochek aims to build digital solutions that will enhance and enable a seamless and safe automotive commerce experience across Africa. The company uses technology to transform the automotive buying and selling experience for African consumers, by [...] Read more ›
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Kenya’s Bamba, a mobile-first enterprise software for micro-merchants in Africa, has secured US$3.2m in seed funding to scale its app and build out its team. Founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur and investor Bastian Gotter, Bamba provides a mobile application allowing small businesses to easily manage their customers and stock levels, get paid, payout, and [...] Read more ›
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South African emergency response platform RapidDeploy has raised equity funding from Nedbank CIB, the corporate and investment banking division of the Nedbank Group, one of the four largest banking groups in South Africa. Founded by Steven Raucher and Brett Meyerowitz, RapidDeploy is an open and integrated response platform, transforming first responder communications centres of any [...] Read more ›
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South African agri-tech startup Nile, which enables buyers to purchase directly from Africa’s leading food producers through its marketplace, has raised a ZAR83 million (US$5.1 million) equity funding round led by Naspers Foundry. Nile was founded in 2020 to provide farmers with digital solutions that can address various pain points inherent to food trading – [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian logistics startup Topship has raised a US$2.5 million funding round as it continues to build the “Flexport for Africa”. Launched in June 2020, Topship allows African businesses to export and import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors and customers at any location worldwide. The startup says it is building “Flexport for Africa”, [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the second cohort of the Google for Startup Black Founders Fund for Africa, with 60 eligible black-founded startups set to be awarded a total of US$4 million in funding. Disrupt Africa reported in July of last year on the US$3 million Google for Startups Black Founders Fund Africa, which is part [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Instabug, a mobile monitoring, crash and bug reporting solution for mobile teams, has raised US$46 million in Series B funding to add to its product and build what it says will be the first mobile observability and performance monitoring platform. Founded in 2016, Instabug helps developers better understand the performance of their mobile [...] Read more ›
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Edves is an Edtech with high-level adoption and usage within the EdTech and digital infrastructure space in Africa, having over 1,200 schools, 22K+ Educators, 130K+ parents and 250K+ students in 6 African Countries. The leading SaaS company has expanded to 4 African countries in the last 6 months after raising the over-subscribed $575,000 in a [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan fintech startup FlexPay has raised funding from the Cairo Angels Syndicate Fund as it looks to supercharge its growth and help more people avoid debt. FlexPay is an online and offline payment gateway that allows merchants to offer interest-free targeted savings to their customers in Africa. Through FlexPay, merchants give their customers the freedom [...] Read more ›
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African startups interested in expanding to South Korea can do so by taking part in the government-run K-Startup Grand Challenge, for which applications are now open. The K-Startup Grand Challenge, hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) and organised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), provides regulatory support and industry [...] Read more ›
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Ugandan startup Eversend, a digital-only finance platform providing cross-border money transfers among other services, is entering its “growth and expansion phase” in 2022 after achieving sustainability last year. Founded by Stone Atwine and Ronald Kasendwa in 2017 and launched to the public in 2019, Eversend is an all-in-one payments platform offering cross-border payments, virtual cards, [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian fintech startup Bridgecard has raised a US$440,000 pre-seed funding round to expand its user base and build out its platform. Co-founded by Owumi Festus and Tunde Adewole, Bridgecard merges a user’s cards, bank accounts and fintech wallets into one card and an app, allowing users to perform online transactions, pay bills, and withdraw from [...] Read more ›
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Six African tech startups have been named by the World Economic Forum (WEF) among its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2022 – companies that are shaping industries from healthcare to retail and many more. The WEF Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in [...] Read more ›
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African startup founders becoming investors in their counterparts even while they are still building their own businesses is “fantastic” for the continent’s startup ecosystem, and demonstrates the growing maturity of the sector. That’s according to Keet van Zyl, co-founder and partner at the South Africa-based Knife Capital, a VC firm focused on innovation-driven ventures with [...] Read more ›
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Amber Group April Recap 2022 Corporate News Approved as a member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). Managing Partner Annabelle Huang named on Makinsey’s annual Top Women Innovators list. Product Development and Partnerships Partnered with The Dodge NFT and PleasrDAO to make NFTs more accessible. In the News Disruption Banking: Amber Group joins [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Teegara, a B2B e-commerce platform focused on household and FMCG products, has raised an undisclosed bridge round led by the Alexandria Business Angels Network. Founded in 2019, by Ahmad Kayyali and Nader Ibrahim with first investee Ahmed Samir, Teegara is a B2B2C e-commerce marketplace that aims to help anyone to trade, starting with [...] Read more ›
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South African Breweries (SAB) in partnership with the SAB Foundation has established the SAB SHARP Awards, targeting innovators and social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas or prototypes that empower women in at-risk communities. The SAB SHARP Awards is looking for solutions that either assist these women in becoming economically independent or that address issues associated with [...] Read more ›
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