Nigeria
Nigeria: Pastel, a digital bookkeeping startup closes $5.5 million seed round
Pastel, a Nigerian digital bookkeeping and digital platform for merchants has raised $5.5 million seed round. The funding is to be deployed to ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Hackathon – CBN, AFF to Assist 10 Startups to Increase eNaira Adoption
On October 25, Nigeria became the first country in Africa to introduce a digital currency, with the launch of the eNaira. Since then, ...
Ethopia
Ethiopia: Finnish-Ethiopian Startup Launches Recruitment Software
A Finnish-Ethiopian startup has entered Ethiopia’s job market with an online requirement software called Fairway. The tech startup, which aims to provide a ...
Global
Global: Singapore’s Thunes expands into Saudi Arabia
Thunes, a Singapore-based cross-border payments company, announced that it is accelerating the expansion of its services in the Middle East and North Africa ...
Ethopia
Ethiopia: New Startup Accelerator Launches in Ethiopia
The Tech African Women (TAW) programme has officially launched in the hopes of providing support and acceleration to women-owned African tech startups, taking ...
Global
Global: Pakistan central bank orders startup Tag to refund customers
The State Bank of Pakistan, the South Asian nation’s central bank, has ordered fintech Tag to “immediately” refund all funds to customers citing ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: NOLT Finance secures operating license from CBN
NOLT Finance, a disruptor in the social impact banking space, has secured operating license from the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide financial ...
Global
Global: Kompliant secures $14M to help companies tackle financial compliance challenges
Kompliant, a startup delivering an “AI-driven” business onboarding and risk scoring platform, today announced that it raised $14 million in a seed round ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Educate us About your Product/Service for Effective Regulation – NITDA to Startups
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has charged Nigerian startups to educate and enlighten industry regulators on what products and solutions they are providing ...
South Africa
South Africa: South Africa’s Qwili Raises $1.2 Million to Enhance SmartPhone, Internet Penetration in Africa
The lack of and high cost of access to digital products and services in the African markets are the challenges Qwili is focused ...