South Africa
SA: South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing
Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360, a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 ...
Côte d’Ivoire
Ivory Coast: B2B Payments Platform Julaya Raises Additional US$5M Led By Speedinvest
Ivory Coast-based payments company Julaya has raised a US$5 million extension round led by European venture capital fund Speedinvest to expand its operations ...
South Africa
SA: Google Cloud Boosts Syft’s Financial Reporting Application to Scale Beyond South Africa
Google Cloud announced today a collaboration with Syft, a South African – based financial reporting application which processes significant volumes of financial data ...
Ghana
Ghana: Ghanaian agtech Farmerline raises $1.5M from Dutch investor Oikocredit
Ghanaian agtech Farmerline has secured $1.5 million equity funding from Dutch impact investor Oikocredit in its second close of the pre-Series A round. ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: 383 Nigerian Tech Startups Raised Over $2 Billion in Seven Years – Report
About 383 Nigerian tech startups raised a combined $2 billion in funding between January 2015 and August 2022 more than any other country ...
Global
Global: Google acquires Israeli climatech startup BreezoMeter for over $200 million
The Israeli startup aims to monitor air quality and improve people’s health by using atmospheric data that is acquired through multiple sensing stations, ...
Global
Global: Indian market regulator puts insurer Digit’s $440 million IPO in ‘abeyance’
The Indian capital market regulator has moved Digit’s IPO application to “abeyance,” it said in what is a disappointing development for the online ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Nigeria Leads In Tech Startup Funding
A new report by Disrupt Africa says that the Nigerian FinTech ecosystem remains the highest beneficiary of FinTech investment in Africa. The report ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Nigerian startup, Kippa, raises $8.4 million to expand offerings to Nigerian SMEs
Kippa, a Nigerian financial management and payments platform, announced Monday it has raised $8.4 million in a new financing round. The round included ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Estate intel, Nigeria’s real estate analytic startup makes Google’s list after raising $500k in pre-seed funding
Estate Intel, an African-focused real estate data analytics platform, is among the 60 startups that have been accepted into the second cohort of ...