Nigeria
Nigeria: NITDA warns against fraudulent ‘National Startup Investment Fund Programme’
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has warned Nigerians to be wary of a fraudulent website claiming to be National Startup Investment ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Nigerian foodtech startup, Orda, raises $3.4 million in seed funding
Nigerian food tech startup, Orda, said it has raised a $3.4 million seed investment to help it to digitize many African restaurants through its cloud-based ...
Startup
KreditBee raises $80million Series D funding
KreditBee, one of India’s leading fintech platforms, has secured USD 80 Million as a part of its ongoing Series-D investment round. The current ...
Kenya
Kenya: Africa’s Leading Data Analytics Company, Periculum Launches Utambuzi in Kenya
Utambuzi has launched in Kenya. Utambuzi, which means ‘insights’ or ‘diagnosis’ in Swahili, is a personal finance management product that leverages machine learning ...
South Africa
SA: Revio Raises $1.1 million to Solve Payments Challenge in Emerging Markets
API payment and collections company Revio has closed a $1.1 million seed funding round led by SpeedInvest. The funding will be used to ...
Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire: Fintech startup Djamo raises $14M to fuel its Francophone Africa expansion
Ivory Coast-based fintech startup, Djamohas closed a $14 million funding round – the largest-ever equity round for a startup in Ivory Coast – ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Nigerian female-led fintech closes $2 million in a seed round
Pivo, a fintech firm run by women in Nigeria, has closed a $2 million seed investment round to improve supply chain transaction management ...
Egypt
Egypt: Grinta Egyptian fintech company receives $8M in seed funding.
A digital pharmaceutical platform called Grinta, based in Cairo, has raised a $8 million seed round that was jointly led by Raed Ventures ...
Africa
Africa: Applications open for $200k TechBridge accelerator programme
African startups solving pressing problems through innovation are invited to apply for the TechBridge accelerator programme, which provides US$200,000 in funding and other ...
Africa
Africa: World Bank’s IFC Launches A new $225m Platform to Invest in Early Stage Startups in Africa, Others
The World Bank’s investment arm, the International Financial Corporation (IFC), has launched a new $225 million platform to strengthen venture capital ecosystems and ...