Africa’s top e-commerce marketplace Jumia Ghana has partnered with modern eco-friendly mobility company Solar Taxi to provide affordable and eco-friendly delivery of online ...

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at ...

Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2 million seed round to scale its operations, a month after completing the Techstars Toronto ...

Awabah, the Nigeria-based startup providing pension access to Africa’s informal sector, has been accepted into the Techstars London accelerator programme. The company broke ...

MENA mass transit and mobility solutions provider Swvl has announced plans of acquiring a controlling interest in Shotl, a mass transit platform partnering with corporations and ...

Eight African fintech startups have been selected to participate in the latest edition of the GreenHouse Lab accelerator, securing access to funding and ...

Pngme has raised $15 million in a Serie A round led by Octopus Ventures (a London-based multi-stage European venture capital investor), alongside other players like Lateral Capital, Unshackled ...

Kenyan customer loyalty startup CashBackApp has raised a US$475,000 pre-seed funding round to help scale its service in Kenya and prepare for expansion ...

Ghana-based payments startup Waya is seeing month-on-month growth of between 20 per cent in its three existing markets, prompting it to launch expansion ...

Turaco and M-KOPA celebrate a key milestone of insuring over 16,000 emerging market consumers in Kenya through their partnership which aims to provide M-KOPA customers and ...