Tag: Africa

Startups
Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand a...

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. Within this timeline, he intern...

Startups
South Africa’s Talk360 raises $4M to build single payment platform for Africa

South Africa’s Talk360 raises $4M to build single payme...

Many businesses looking to set up pan-African operations are often met with the ...

Startups
Identitypass, an identity verification API for Africa, raises $2.8M seed funding

Identitypass, an identity verification API for Africa, ...

Mobile penetration in Africa is growing impressively at about 46% as more people...

Startups
Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa

Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle ...

Edtech startup, Manara, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding for its cohort...

Startups
Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia

Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in A...

One of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia, Sun King, has raised $260...

Funding
OkHi gets $1.5M seed extension to scale its smart address verification service across Africa

OkHi gets $1.5M seed extension to scale its smart addre...

It can be challenging to prove or navigate addresses in Africa due to poor addre...

Funding
Uganda’s Rocket Health raises $5M to scale telemedicine across Africa

Uganda’s Rocket Health raises $5M to scale telemedicine...

The world over, the popularity of telemedicine spiked during the COVID pandemic,...

Funding
Uganda’s Rocket Health raises $5M in round led by Creadev to scale telemedicine across Africa

Uganda’s Rocket Health raises $5M in round led by Cread...

The world over, the popularity of telemedicine spiked during the Covid pandemic,...

Startups
Microsoft partners with VCs, accelerators to back 10,000 startups in Africa

Microsoft partners with VCs, accelerators to back 10,00...

Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over th...

Funding
Nigeria’s Sudo Africa raises $3.7M pre-seed for its card-issuing API platform

Nigeria’s Sudo Africa raises $3.7M pre-seed for its car...

Sudo Africa, a fintech that provides a card-issuing API for developers and busin...

Funding
After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks across Africa, Caribbean to deploy regulatory sandboxes

After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks...

For fintechs to thrive in such a way that they remain meaningful to economies, a...

Funding
After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks across Africa, the Caribbean to deploy regulatory sandboxes

After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks...

For fintechs to thrive in such a way that they remain meaningful to economies, a...

Funding
Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its fa...

More Africans now suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension...

Blockchain
Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to b...

Jambo, a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal thro...

Funding
MoneyHash gets $3M to build a super-API for payment operations in Africa, Mideast

MoneyHash gets $3M to build a super-API for payment ope...

Large merchants, particularly those that operate in more than one geography, hav...

Funding
Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto an...

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportuni...