South African payroll software startup HelloHR has been secured an undisclosed amount of funding from the Mauritius-based Finclusion Group. HelloHR provides a cloud-based payroll solution connecting accountants, organisations, and employees and works closely with Xero, the leading cloud-based accounting software in South Africa. Accessible through a web application, the tool automates the payroll process including [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Shiphaly, a platform connecting shoppers and travellers, has raised an undisclosed six-figure seed funding round from angel investors to help it build on its steady growth. Launched in October 2019, Shiphaly is a mobile app and marketplace connecting shoppers who want to buy products from abroad with travellers who can buy and deliver [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore has raised funding from e-payments solutions and banking services provider Fawry, the North African country’s first startup “unicorn”, as part of its upcoming Series A round. Founded in 2017, Brimore has built a platform that leverages the power of individual social networks to enable broad, cost-effective market access. It enables [...] Read more ›
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Even in the uncertain times of the COVID pandemic, tech companies in the Middle East and North Africa are making bold decisions—and their creative problem-solving is one reason Africa’s Internet economy could contribute up to $180 billion to the continent’s GDP by 2025 and $712 billion by 2050.  But don’t take my word for it—watch these [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech startups have been invited to apply for the ZAR1.5 million (US$100,000) AlphaCode Incubate programme, which aims to identify, partner with and grow innovative entrepreneurs in financial services and related industries. The AlphaCode Incubate programme is open to entrepreneurs with early-stage fintech or related sector startups, or even ideas for one. Innovative business [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup Cartona, a B2B platform connecting retailers to manufacturers and wholesalers, has closed a US$4.5 million Pre-Series A funding round to help it invest in new technology, launch new products and expand across the country. Founded in August 2020, Cartona is a B2B e-commerce marketplace focusing on solving supply chain and operational challenges for [...] Read more ›
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Imagine getting all the back-to-school bills cleared out today even if you don’t have a dime in your bank account as you read this? That’s the power of Page Financials’ back to school financing. It’s a win-win, you get up to N5 million in loan today, pay the school fees and all other expenses, the [...] Read more ›
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Ugandan startup gnuGrid has increased the size of its seed funding round to US$612,500 as it pivots its product offering to move into the fintech space. Launched in 2019 by David Opio and James Dailey, gnuGrid built Solar Sentra, which aimed to streamline and automate the highly fragmented solar industry in Uganda and beyond by [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startups have been invited to apply to pitch for share of a US$30,000 pre-seed equity funding pool provided by SSE Angel Network at the upcoming StartupSouth event. Disrupt Africa reported earlier this month the Southeast Nigerian city of Enugu will host the sixth edition of the StartupSouth conference, the biggest startup and innovation-focused event [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian startup ClickMare is providing users with health micro-insurance to make private healthcare accessible to all by breaking financial barriers. Launched in October 2016, ClickMare aims to bridge the gap between public and private health insurance, in a country where millions of people and 87 per cent of SMEs are medically uninsured. These kind of [...] Read more ›
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Ethiopian construction-tech startup ConDigital has raised a pre-seed funding round to help it cement its presence at home and expand into the wider East African region. Launched in January of 2019, ConDigital digitises the process of construction project management for contractors, consultants and owners. Among the services it provides are data calculation, processing and reporting; [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech startup Centbee has successfully completed testing of its remittance service Minit Money within the framework of the South African Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group’s Regulatory Sandbox. Launched in 2016 by co-CEOs Lorien Gamaroff and Angus Brown, Centbee launched its bitcoin cash wallet to market late in 2018, allowing users to send bitcoin cash [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian e-health and IoT solutions startup Sotech has raised US$1 million in pre-seed funding to scale into the rest of the MENA region. Founded in 2020, Sotech specialises in smart IoT, trackable OOH advertising, and data gathering. The startup bridges the worlds of offline advertising with online campaigning, via an app that helps clinics understand [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan fintech startup Jumuisha, which helps churches and NGOs receive donations, make payments and manage events all in one place, has raised a round of seed funding to help it scale. Launched in October 2020, Jumuisha allows churches to receive donations via USSD, bank transfer, mobile money, online payment or credit cards, and also make [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Teleeza has developed a mobile content aggregation and advertising platform that utilises a smartphone’s lockscreen. Launched earlier this year, Teleeza allows users to easily and conveniently access customised content on their lockscreen, and has already onboarded over 55 local, regional and international publishers. The startup has 30,000 users on the platform, and is [...] Read more ›
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South African startup 6DOT50 is enabling crypto-holders to pay for goods and services at over 40,000 merchants across the country, including at Shoprite Holdings stores and all Zapper merchants. Until now cryptocurrencies have mostly failed to fulfil the primary purpose of money, namely its ability to be exchanged for goods and services. 6DOT50 claims to [...] Read more ›
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Pricepally launches new mobile apps and website, expands operations to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. Launched in 2019, Pricepally is a digital food cooperative that enables families and businesses to buy food in bulk or share bulk food items with other shoppers at a discount. The food is sourced directly from farmers and wholesalers, making it [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup 54gene, a health technology company advancing African genomics research for improved global health outcomes, has secured US$25 million in a Series B round it will use to advance its capabilities to contribute to global drug discovery. Launched in 2019, 54gene is a research, services and development company founded that utilises human genetic data [...] Read more ›
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Coining the moniker “Dropbox for death” is newly-launched South African startup life.file, which has built a platform designed to help people navigate the legal parts of life and death while driving down costs. Launched by Claire Keet and Sinal Govender in June, life.file is a web app that helps people create, store and share a [...] Read more ›
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Startup-focused news and research company Disrupt Africa has announced VC firm Global Ventures and startup accelerator AUC V-Lab have joined Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) as partners for the open-sourcing of the “Egyptian Startup Ecosystem Report 2021”. Since launching its research arm in 2016, Disrupt Africa has built up a significant portfolio of [...] Read more ›
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