By the end of last year, software startup ScaleFactor had emerged as a buzzy financial services company, raising $100 million in 12 months ...

Lupiya, a Zambian based microfinance startup has received an investment of $1-million from Enygma Ventures, a US venture capital (VC) fund. Founded in 2015, ...

Launched in May 2018 by Sebastian Patel and Thomas Brennan, Franc is an investment robo-advisor that helps people who have never invested before access the ...

Nigerian startup IderaOS has launched ListBuy, an e-commerce software platform with escrow payment technology to protect online buyers and sellers from fraud. Rolled ...

Payfazz a startup that provides financial and payment services through agents, just raised US$53 million in series B funding. The round was led ...

Startups from Ethiopia, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Rwanda and Ghana have been named country winners of the MEST Africa Challenge, earning their places in ...

In an audited report published this week, Carbon, the Nigerian fintech company, declared that it made the naira equivalent of $312,905 in profit ...

Despite the majority of businesses facing tough times due to the Covid-19 pandemic, edtech startups have witnessed extraordinary growth and emerged as a ...

Mark Porter, Grab‘s chief technology officer for its core technologies and transport business, has stepped down from the role. In an emailed statement to Tech ...

Nigerian fintech startup Wallets Africa has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from a host of investors as it prepares to expand usage ...