Egypt
Egypt: Plug and Play establishes local presence in Egypt as investments in tech startups rise
ITIDA has signed an MoU Plug and Play, a global startup enabler company specialized in startups in an effort to boost Egypt’s entrepreneurship and startup ...
Africa
Africa Crypto and Blockchain Accelerator seeks to help startups scale their solutions
In a bid to help ventures develop their solutions in the sector, Cardano Foundation and Seedstars have organised the Africa Crypto and Blockchain ...
Egypt
Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore secures investment from Fawry
Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore has raised funding from e-payments solutions and banking services provider Fawry, the North African country’s first startup “unicorn”, ...
Nigeria
Nigerian businesses to accept Apple Pay on Paystack
Paystack, a US-based fintech company, has announced it is launching Pay with Apple Pay on its platform. The company is now a payment ...
Egypt
Egypt: China’s Didi launches operations in Egypt
Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, has now launched operations in Egypt. The North African country becomes the second in Africa where Didi has ...
South Africa
South Africa: Chipper Cash launches with free P2P money transfers
Chipper, the fastest growing African fintech start-up that facilitates free peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfers and instant cross-border payments in Africa, officially launched Chipper ...
Egypt
Egypt ecommerce marketplace startup Cartona raises $4.5 Million pre-Series A funding
Cartona has announced a $4.5 million pre-Series A funding round connecting retailers and manufacturers through an application. Cartona is working to play a bigger ...
South Africa
SA: iiDENTIFii wins best enterprise solution at the 2021 MTN App of the Year awards
In its 10th year, the MTN Business App of the Year Awards 2021 awarded South African technology company iiDENTIFii, the Best Enterprise Solution ...
Startup
Uganda: GnuGrid raises $612k seed round as it pivots into fintech space
Ugandan startup gnuGrid has increased the size of its seed funding round to US$612,500 as it pivots its product offering to move into ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Infibranches secures $2 million from shell backed All On
Infibranches, a company on a mission to bridge the energy distribution gap in underserved rural and peri-urban areas of Nigeria, has secured a ...