Cape Town-based ed-tech startup Mindjoy aims to make coding skills accessible for kids – and grownups – on any internet-enabled device. Founded by Gabi Immelman in July 2021, Mindjoy is tackling one of the sector’s most pervasive challenges – the lack of digital skills development. Making use of Replit, a browser-based development environment that doesn’t [...] Read more ›
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Why would anyone purchase a phone that requires up to ten hours to charge? It’s almost unthinkable nowadays that you can send a text in minutes and get a response in minutes—or even less—that mobile phones used to have a talking time of less than an hour and might take up to 10 hours to [...] Read more ›
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VC firm Tofino Capital has completed a first close of US$5 million of a US$10 million fund focused on investing in early-stage companies in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Founded by by Eliot Pence and Aubrey Hruby, Tofino Capital has secured funding from limited partners that include large family offices, top-tier venture [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan electric vehicle company Opibus has changed its name to ROAM, with the rebrand coming after the company’s expansion led to a strategic shift in its vision. Founded in 2017, Opibus is the leading provider of electric vehicles designed and manufactured locally. Its vision is to create reliable and cost effective products designed for the [...] Read more ›
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Ghanaian startup Farmerline, which describes itself as “Amazon for African farmers”, has secured a US$6.4 million pre-Series A investment plus another US$6.5 million in debt to help it expand. Launched in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai, Farmerline partners with agribusinesses and farm associations to support African farmers with high-quality fertiliser and seeds, [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech startup Stitch has launched LinkPay, allowing businesses in South Africa and Nigeria to enable users to link their financial accounts and pay securely via instant bank transfer, in seconds. Read more ›
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Egyptian e-commerce startup Kemitt has launched a new B2B platform as it diversifies its offering after strong growth in the B2C segment. Founded in 2017, Kemitt is a marketplace that connects product and furniture designers with consumers, handling the manufacturing, overheads, and last-mile logistics. The online platform allows customers to access over 30,000 SKUs, with [...] Read more ›
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Too few entrepreneurs – in Africa or elsewhere – truly understand venture capital and how it works, but even fewer understand what it is to take on VC into what used to be your business, but is now “a business owned by multiple people in which you work”. That is according to Jason Goldberg, founder [...] Read more ›
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When Angela Strange, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, asserted in 2019 that “any company could become a fintech company”, Uber was one of the main examples that she cited. The business may have launched as a disruptor of the traditional mobility market, but the ride-hailing business is now also offering credit cards, a digital wallet [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian fintech startup Syarpa has closed a US$500,000 pre-seed round of funding to help it expand across Europe and Africa. Read more ›
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Nigerian fintech startup Kudi has changed its name to Nomba as it transitions into an omni-channel payment platform providing tools to enable businesses to grow. Founded by Yinka Adewale and Pelumi Aboluwarin in 2017, Kudi enables underbanked and unbanked Nigerians to access basic financial services such as money transfers, bill payments and cash withdrawals through [...] Read more ›
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Investment firm Unicorn Group has launched its fourth incubation programme for entrepreneurs, which for the first time is open to startups from a host of countries. Read more ›
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Beyond Capital Ventures, a newly-launched women-led impact VC firm focused on seed and Series A stage companies in “need-to-have” sectors across India and East Africa, such as healthcare, financial inclusion, agriculture, has made its first three investments in Rwandan startups Viebeg and Kasha, and Ghana’s Africa Health Holdings. Heading up Beyond Capital Ventures is general [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup insurtech startup ETAP, which makes it easier to buy car insurance and make claims, has secured US$1.5 million in pre-seed funding to grow its team and drive the adoption of car insurance across Africa. Read more ›
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Egyptian digital payments provider Paymob has expanded its operations into Pakistan, aiming to empower Pakistani merchants with online, POS and “Tap on Phone” payment solutions. 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 wallet [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup The Food Lab, a cloud kitchen platform that provides services like procurement, cooking, delivery, data-led insights and recommendations, and marketing for restaurant owners, has raised a US$4.5 million pre-seed funding round to help it expand across Egypt and into new markets. Launched in 2020 by Kareem El Daly, Ahmed Osman and Wesam Masoud, [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian electric mobility startup Shift EV has raised an undisclosed Series A funding round to help it onboard more clients and scale operations into other markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Founded in 2020 by Aly El Tayeb and Amr Helmy, Shift EV converts existing fuel-run vehicles into electric ones utilising [...] Read more ›
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The Cape Town-based ed-tech non-profit Injini is launching a think tank aimed at providing entrepreneurs in the space with access to market research and to advocate for educational reform. Injini, which was part-founded by the Cape Innovation & Technology Initiative (CiTi) and has run a number of accelerator programmes for ed-tech startups in Africa, says [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Neural Labs is using AI-enabled medical imaging to facilitate real-time diagnosis of various respiratory, heart and breast diseases and pathologies. Founded in January 2021 by Tom Kinyanjui and Paul Mwaura Ndirangu, two machine learning engineers, Neural Labs has developed a platform called NeuralSight in a bid to reduce Africa’s disease burden and hospital [...] Read more ›
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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in partnership with Ventures Park have announced the launch of NINJA Accelerator Program in Nigeria – 2nd cohort. The program is open to startups not only in Nigeria, but in other countries and regions who want to expand into the [...] Read more ›
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