Wattnow
Funding Investment Startup Venture Capital

Wattnow Secures Funding Led by Lateral Frontiers, 216 Capital and Satgana

Wattnow, a Climate tech startup specialising in energy management systems, announced today the successful closing of a multi-million dollar funding

Sahl
Funding Investment Venture Capital

Egyptian Mobile Bill Payment App, Sahl Secures $6m Investment

Sahl, an Egyptian mobile bill payment app, has raised $6 million in Series A and seed funding to act as

LAfricaMobile
Funding

LAfricaMobile Raises $4.6m to Lead Cloud Communication in French-speaking Africa

 LAfricaMobile, a cloud communication and mobile marketing platform, has announced that it has raised $4.6 million.  This new investment will allow LAfricaMobile to consolidate

M-KOPA
News

Fintech M-KOPA Raises $250m to Scale High-impact Business Across Africa

M-KOPA, a fintech platform, has announced that it has closed over $250 mill in new debt and equity funding to

Funding Investment Venture Capital

Rwazi Secures $4m Investment Led by Bonfire Ventures

Rwazi, a market intelligence startup, has secured $4 million in funding led by Bonfire Ventures and saw participation from Newfund

Shortcodes
Telecom

Nigerian Telcos Begin Implementation of Integrate Shortcodes

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC in partnership with telcos have started the unification of all operating shortcodes across the telecom

Qualcomm
Innovation Technology

Qualcomm Announces Africa Innovation Platform

Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the launch of the Africa Innovation Platform, a suite of mentorship, education, and training programs created

Teraco
Data

Teraco Announces Regional Interconnection With Google Equiano Cable

Teraco, the African provider of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano

Glo
Payment Telecom

Glo Finally Joins MTN, Airtel & 9mobile to Launch Banking Payment Platform MoneyMaster

Glo has launched MoneyMaster, its banking payment platform to provide financial services to millions of unbanked and under-banked Nigerians. Glo

MTN
Internet

MTN Kicks off 5G Pilot in Nigeria

MTN has kicked off an open 5G pilot in the lead-up to its commercial launch. The Company, which intends to launch