Startup
Global: The Sandbox announces $50M fund for its startup accelerator program
Virtual world project The Sandbox announced its metaverse accelerator program that will push the development of the open metaverse by investing $50 million ...
Nigeria
CKROWD ANNOUNCES MAJOR SOFTWARE UPGRADE TO CHANGE THE CREATORS’ ECONOMY IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA
Ckrowd announces new major platform upgrade to 1.4 software version, making its features the best to support Live & On-Demand content publishing & monetisation for ...
Startup
Kenya: Kenya fintech startup Zanifu raises $1M seed funding
Kenya fintech Zanifu will extend its stock financing to MSMEs after securing $1 million in seed funding. The round was funded by Saviu Ventures, Sayani Investments, Launch Africa, ...
Startup
Morocco: Morocco B2B e-commerce startup Chari raises bridge round
Chari has announced a closing bridge round led by Khwarizmi Ventures (KV), a Saudi-based venture capital fund, AirAngels, and AKWA Group’s venture capital ...
Africa
SA: Severus drives African leadership with the launch of limited edition ‘African Hero’ NFT collection
The African Hero NFT collection launches 21 January 2022, at 7pm UTC on popular NFT marketplace, OpenSea The new cutting-edge fintech platform Severus (www.Severus.finance) is ...
Startup
Dojah joins other Nigerian tech startups in the W22 Y combinator program
Dojah, a tech startup based in Nigeria has been included amongst the tech startups to participate in the W22 Y Combinator accelerator programme. ...
Startup
Kenya: Kenya e-commerce startup Copia Global raises $50M
Copia Global a Kenya B2C e-commerce company has raised a $50 million Serie C round led by Goodwell Investments. The funds will go towards ...
Startup
Nigeria: Nigeria’s Bumpa, a “Shopify for Africa”, has grand plans post-funding
Nigerian startup Bumpa, a one-stop-shop for retail merchants in Africa, plans international growth after seeing impressive early uptake and banking pre-seed funding. Launched ...
Startup
Nigeria: Nigerian B2B startup AlphaCX is delivering customer support solutions for African markets
Customer Service remains a huge challenge in Nigeria, businesses, support agents and customers have a fair share of the troubles. Businesses purchase expensive ...
Startup
Uganda: Uganda asset financing startup Asaak raises $30M pre-series A
Uganda asset financing fintech startup Asaak secures $30 million in pre-series A equity and debt financing round. This round drew participation from new and existing ...