Nigeria-based lending and business financing platform, Payhippo, has been accepted into Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort, joining 167 startups, four of which are African. ...

Kenyan fintech startup, Wapi Pay, has raised a $2.2 million pre-seed fund to facilitate financial transactions between the African and Asian continents. Investors that ...

Bolt, the leading ride-hailing and mobility platform, has raised €600 million in a funding round that increases its valuation to over €4 billion. ...

Dubai-based fintech Baraka has raised $4 million in a seed round from Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs, Raptor Group, Tribe Capital, Nuwa Capital, ...

Kuda Bank, the London-based, Nigerian-operating startup that is taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first, personalised and often cheaper set of ...

Jack Dorsey’s digital payments firm Square is expanding competition with global payments giants like PayPal by acquiring a major Australian lending company. Square announced Sunday ...

Access to financial services will play a critical role in economic growth and poverty reduction for the 1.2 billion people live on the African ...

GoodsMart, a grocery delivery platform in Egypt has raised $3.6 million led by Sawari Ventures. The funds will be channeled towards market expansion. ...

EchoVC proudly announces a pre-seed investment into KOSA.ai – an AI-driven Kenya startup running an automated responsible platform that supports enterprises in building and deploying ...

25 female-founded tech startups have been chosen for the second edition of The Future is Female Mentorship program comprising of a PR & Communications mentorship ...