Nigeria
Nigeria: Fintech Sparkle raises $3.1M Seed Round
The round raises Sparkle’s total funding thus far to $5.1 million. Nigeria’s lifestyle and financial ecosystem app Sparkle has raised a $3.1 million seed round ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Appzone Relaunches BankOne, Digital Core Banking Solution for Africa’s Fintechs and Neobanks
The BankOne Platform has been re-engineered with functionality expected to drive the exponential growth of fully digital offerings from new Fintechs across Africa. ...
Egypt
Egypt launches 3rd edition of the African Application and Game development Cup
Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology alongside ITIDA have announced the launch of the African App Launchpad Cup (3rd edition) in cooperation with IBM and registration is open for early-stage startups and entrepreneurs ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Rent Small Small becomes first African proptech company to join Techstars Toronto Accelerator
Rent Small Small offers flexible Pay-as-you-Stay home rental solution The Nigerian property technology startup that is reorganising the home rental market has been ...
Global
StanChart Makes Largest Fintech Investment of US$500 Million in Atome in BNPL Play
Standard Chartered plans to provide US$500 million in financing to Atome Financial, the parent company of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) firm Atome, as ...
Global
Standard Chartered concludes global media pitch with 5-year contract
Standard Chartered has handed incumbent dentsu International its global media remit to handle media planning, buying and strategy beating out Omnicom Media Group. ...
Morroco
‘Morocco Now’ Investment Brand launches at the Expo 2020 Dubai
“Morocco Now” brand is promoting the country as a world-class industrial and export zone by highlighting the country as a top business destination ...
Egypt
Eygpt: Fawry partners Uber to enhance E payments services.
Fawry and Uber expands their partnership to introduce E-payments through the myfawry app Fawry and Uber have expanded their partnership to introduce E-payments ...
Africa
Africa cross-border commerce platform Klasha raises $2.4M, expands to Ghana
Klasha mobile app can now be downloaded in Ghana with additional functionalities particularly the instant money transfer between Ghana and Nigeria San Francisco ...
Global
RegTech Firm Elliptic Using $60M Fundraise To Accelerate Adoption of Crypto
Elliptic, a leading firm in the RegTech space, has announced that its Series C funding round raised $60 million from existing investors, such as Wells ...