PesaChoice and Viebeg from the the Kigali-based Norrsken foundation With the beta opening of Kigali’s Norrsken House co-working spaces expected in December, the Norrsken Foundation ...

Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M pre-seed for its small business finance management app Kippa, a startup that aims to digitize the book keeping process ...

The programme, funded by Jack Ma, awards hundreds of thousands of dollars to startups that seek to solve major problems in Africa. Three ...

Tencent has invested in a South African financial-technology provider helping the Chinese internet giant expand in the continent’s most developed economy. The Hong-Kong ...

Cape Town-based startup Root has closed a $3 million seed funding round. The startup is a cloud-based end-to-end insurance platform building infrastructure for the digital ...

Nigeria tech-enabled and shared mobility startup Shuttlers has completed a US$1.6 million seed round and looks to scale its operations to cities across Africa. The ...

Egypt fintech KIWE  a peer-to-peer money exchange app has closed its first investment round led by Digital Finance Holding (dfin)  alongside participation from EFG Hermes, ...

Kiwi Pay Group, a Singapore-based fintech has entered into a strategic partnership with Bolloré Logistics, one of Africa’s leading transport and logistic businesses. The ...

Fast-growing Nigerian Fintech startup, Aboki Africa, has recently raised pre-seed funding led by Abdul Hassan (CEO of Mono), alongside Niche Capital Limited, Ingressive Capital, ...

The Managing Director of the Bank of Industry, Kayode Pitan, has said that the emergence of Start-ups in business has come with creative ...