Nigeria’s online travel agency, Wakanow has raised $40 million from The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager. According to
Naspers and Canada’s state pension fund have invested $540 million in Indian educational technology startup Byju’s, the South African internet
In September, South Africa-based financial technology firm JUMO secured $52M investment from led by Goldman Sachs in an equity funding
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa which was recently held in Lagos saw the best 15 startups in Africa pitching for $25,000.
The IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a $6-million equity investment in Nigerian tech startup Kobo360. The startup’s
Online media platform, AMPZ.tv has emerged winner of Nigeria’s female founder-focused GreenHouse Lab accelerator. AMPZ.tv was therefore rewarded with NGN2
Nigerian female health startup SonoCare has raised US$250,000 in funding from Gray Matters Capital to scale its operations by developing
EdTech startup Kukua has raised $2.5m in seed funding in a bid to solve child illiteracy. The company’s round was
Twiga Foods has announced a $10 million investment led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Global
Ghanaian agritech startup CowTribe has secured a $300 000 investment from the US-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. In addition to the funding,