Cairo-based ed-tech platform Career 180 has raised US$200,000 from EdVentures to further enhance its services and reach for users. Launched in 2016, Career180 helps young people to develop their skills to fit the labour market through its counselling services, workshops and theoretical or practical training programmes in various specialities. The startup offers career counselling videos [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian lending marketplace Evolve Credit has launched Configure, its new cloud lending software that it says will power thousands of new loan providers over the next five years. The Evolve Credit marketplace brings lenders and borrowers together in one place, and makes comparison easier. The startup raised pre-seed funding just over a year ago, and [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian business accounting startup Kippa has raised US$3.2 million in pre-seed funding as it looks to scale its small business financial management app. Launched in June by brothers Kennedy Ekezie and Duke Ekezie together with Jephtah Uche, Kippa has developed an app that helps merchants to increase cash flow by recovering debts. Using the app, [...] Read more ›
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South African open-source intelligence company VoxCroft Analytics has raised close to US$2 million in Series A funding from Knife Capital to expedite its already-rapid expansion in the United States and other international markets. Founded in 2018, VoxCroft specialises in open-source intelligence (OSINT), an oft-neglected source of insight differentiated from the other forms of intelligence such [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian digital compliance and security company Identitypass has raised US$360,000 in pre-seed funding to help it acquire more customers, further develop its product and expand its team. Launched in January of this year by Lanre Ogungbe, Niyi Adegboye and David Obi, Identitypass aims to build a world class compliance and security infrastructure for Africa. The [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian fintech startup KIWE has raised its first round of funding, which it will use to drive its growth by utilising the offerings of its investors. Founded in March 2021 by Fatma Khalifa, Omar Kamel and Mohamed Khalifa, KIWE is a peer-to-peer money exchange app that allows its users to transfer money to each other [...] Read more ›
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Four African blockchain startups have been selected to take part in the CV Labs Global Incubation Programme run by venture capital firm CV VC, securing US$125,000 in funding and further support. Headquartered in Switzerland, CV VC offers seed funding and an incubation programme – CV Labs – to global tech teams in exchange for equity. [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech company Ozow has raised a US$48 million Series B funding round to help it further develop its product offering and expand into new markets. Ozow, which rebranded from i-Pay in April 2019 as it zeroed in on assisting SMEs with payments, was launched in November 2014 by Thomas Pays, Mitchan Adams and [...] Read more ›
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Rwandan tech startups PesaChoice and Viebeg have raised seed funding from the Kigali-based Norrsken Foundation. Founded by Niklas Adalberth, one of the founders of Swedish fintech unicorn Klarna, in 2016, Norrsken aims to help entrepreneurs solve the world’s greatest challenges. Disrupt Africa reported in 2019 the impact and tech entrepreneurship support foundation had launched operations [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Tyro, an ed-tech platform connecting students with qualified instructors through one-to-one and group sessions, is acquiring Nafham, a social startup that offers free crowd-sourced educational content, under a share-swap agreement. Tyro is an online tutoring platform that connects students with top professional instructors, and is currently operating in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian ed-tech platform Educatly has closed a US$1 million pre-seed funding round to help it build on strong early growth by further developing its product and scaling up marketing efforts. Founded by Mohamed ElSonbaty, Abdelrahman Ayman and Joan Manuel in 2020, Educatly democratises access to higher education opportunities by allowing students to search, compare and [...] Read more ›
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Tunisian startup iCompass is using artificial intelligence to help companies across Africa and the Middle East communicate with their customers in their own languages. Founded in 2019 by Ahmed Nouisser and Hatem Haddad, iCompass specialises in natural language processing (NLP) products using the latest deep learning and reinforcement learning technologies to develop speech transcription services, [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian tech-enabled mobility startup Shuttlers has raised a US$1.6 million seed round and shared plans to scale operations across cities in Africa. Founded in 2016 by Damilola Olokesusi, Shuttlers allows commuters to move in comfort along selected routes at affordable rates, with trips along fixed routes going for up to 80 per cent lower than [...] Read more ›
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South African security and medical response marketplace AURA has secured a ZAR62 million (US$4 million) Series A funding round to support its global expansion plans. AURA is a marketplace that enables anyone to access the closest vetted private and public security and medical response unit to their location – anywhere, anytime – using a connected [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian money transfer startup Aboki Africa has raised a round of pre-seed funding to help it expand its team and scale its product. Launched by Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo in July of this year after a year of piloting, Aboki Africa allows users to open a virtual global bank account for free to receive [...] Read more ›
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African startups with solutions in the climate sector are invited to apply for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation, which aims to support digital innovations tackling challenges around climate change. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation is the latest such fund run by the GSMA, after other focused offerings [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian e-health startup DrugStoc has raised US$4.4 million in Series A funding to expand access to quality medicines while providing sustainable supply chain financing for healthcare providers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Launched in 2017, DrugStoc is a cloud-based platform that provides healthcare providers with the interface for easy access to pharmaceuticals and healthcare products. The startup [...] Read more ›
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Cairo-based mobility assistance startup BlinkApp has raised a six-figure US dollar pre-seed funding round to finance its ambitious expansion plans. Founded in 2017 by Wael Noufal and Ahmed El-Mahdy, BlinkApp aims to achieve better general driving behaviour, faster roadside assistance, and safer roads. The startup’s app captures and analyses thousands of miles of data by [...] Read more ›
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South African insurtech startup OneSpark has launched what it claims is the world’s first AI-powered, pay-as-you-need, P2P life insurance product in a bid to make policies more efficient and affordable. Disrupt Africa reported late last year on the launch of OneSpark, powered by a “significant, dollar-based” funding round secured in October. At launch, the startup [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian Aba-based e-commerce startup Chooya has secured US$100,000 cash and a further US$850,000 in programme support from Entrepreneurship World Cup. Founded in 2019 by Igwe Uguru as a “search engine for African traditional markets” and bootstrapped since inception, Chooya was one of 100 finalists – chosen from 200,000 participants – for the Entrepreneurship World Cup, [...] Read more ›
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