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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ghana’s Float raises $17,000,000 seed to accelerate credit offerings for SMEs
Fintech startup, Float has raised $17,000,000 seed funding to strengthen its credit offerings for businesses and expand geographically. With reach across Ghana and ...
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Nigeria: Nigeria startup SeamlessHR closes a $10M Serie A funding round
SeamlessHR has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by TLcom Capital and drawing participation from Capria Ventures, follow-on investors Lateral Capital, Enza Capital, Ingressive Capital, and several ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Kwik Delivery Reaches 100,000 Customers and Announces +400% GMV & Revenue Growth for 2021; Forecasts Aggressive Growth for 2022 Across All Verticals
Kwik is one of the few digital players able to propose access to end-to-end fulfillment and delivery services to its customers Kwik Delivery ...
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Ivory Coast-based e-commerce startup Afrikrea raises $6.2m pre-Series A round, rebrands
Ivory Coast-based startup Afrikrea, the e-commerce platform for “all things made of Africa’”, has raised a US$6.2 million pre-Series A funding round and ...
