Ventures Platform
Event

Global Investors Call For Increased Investment in Africa At Ventures Platform Africa Prosperity Summit

Ventures Platform, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in innovative startups across Africa, held the second edition of its Africa

CNCF
News

CNCF and Andela Announce Partnership to Train 20,000+ African Tech Professionals

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software, along with Linux Foundation Education, the training and

Yellow Card
Cryptocurrency

Yellow Card Secures Crypto Asset Service Provider Licence in South Africa

Yellow Card, the African stablecoin-based infrastructure provider, has been issued a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) licence by the Financial

Orange
News

Orange Announces Winners of 14th Edition of Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East 

The winners of the 14th edition of the Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP), which recognizes and supports startups whose technological solutions

Flourish Founders
Report

Survey Reveals 86% of African Tech Founders Report Impact on Wellbeing—Flourish Ventures

Flourish Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with purpose, today published the first-ever, wide-scale survey of founder wellbeing in Africa,

Visa
Accelerator

Visa Invests in Four African FinTech Startups From Accelerator Program

Visa has announced investment into four startups that graduated from the first batch of its Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator program. The startups

Future is Female
News

20 African Female Founded Tech Start-ups Selected for The Future is Female Mentorship Program

Twenty African female-founded tech startups have been selected for the fifth edition of The Future is Female Mentorship Program, a

BasiGo
Clean Energy Electric Vehicle Funding Investment Venture Capital

BasiGo Secures $42M in Funding to Scale Public Transport Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa

BasiGo, the provider of electric bus solutions in sub-Saharan Africa, has today announced the successful closing of a US$42 million

Grid Africa
Clean Energy CleanTech Funding Investment

Grid Africa Secures $2.8m Equity Investment

Grid Africa, the South African solar energy solution firm, has secured a significant equity investment of $2.8 million from Rifuwo Energy

Jumia
Ecommerce Jumia

Jumia Exits South Africa and Tunisia

Jumia, the African e-commerce startup, will shut down its South African online fashion retailer Zando and its Tunisian operations by