Gokada
Business Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Transport Venture Capital

Gokada Raises $5.3m Series A Funding Led by Rise Capital

Gokada, a Nigerian motorcycle ride-hailing firm has raised $5.3 million Series A round to scale its business. The funding round

Bamboo Capital Partners
Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Technology Venture Capital

Bamboo Capital Partners & Smart Africa Join Forces For Blended Finance Technology Impact Fund

Bamboo Capital Partners, the impact investing platform, has signed a partnership with Smart Africa to support BLOC, the first-of-its-kind blended

Eghosa Omoigui
Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Interview Venture Capital

Nigerian Startups Lost $10m ICT Funds to Corruption Says EchoVC Partners Founder

Eghosa Omoigui is the Founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners, an early-stage and growth-stage technology venture capital firm

XPay
Africa Fintech Funding Investment Venture Capital

Egypt Fintech Startup XPay Secures $250k in Pre-seed Funding Round

XPay, a Cairo-based fintech startup has raised $250,000 in pre-seed funding from undisclosed angel investors. XPay which is part of Startupbootcamp Fintech

Instadeep
Africa Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Technology Venture Capital

Artificial Intelligence Firm InstaDeep Secures $7m in Series A Funding

InstaDeep, an enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm based in Tunisia has raised $7m in Series A funding from AfricInvest and

CarePay
Africa Digital Entrepreneurship Funding Health Investment Venture Capital

Kenya’s CarePay Set to Expand to Nigeria, Tanzania After Raising $45m Series A Funding 

CarePay International, the Kenya based healthtech startup has completed a $45 million Series A funding round from investors that included

WorldCover
Africa Agro-tech Business Entrepreneurship Funding Insurtech Investment Startup Technology Venture Capital

WorldCover Secures $6M in Series A Funding Led by MS&AD Ventures

WorldCover, a crop insurance startup that provides climate and weather linked insurance products has raised USD$6 million Series A funding

ARED
Social Entrepreneurship Startup Venture Capital

Rwanda’s ARED Expands its Digital Services Footprint to Uganda

ARED, the Rwanda based Platform as a Service startup known for its ‘Smart Business in a Box’ solar-powered kiosks, has

Antler
Accelerator Africa Entrepreneurship Startup Venture Capital

Early Stage Venture Capital Firm Antler Berths in East Africa, Aims to Build Startups From Scratch

Antler, a global startup generator and early-stage venture capital firm, has opened East African offices in Ethiopia and Kenya as

Seedstars
Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Startup Venture Capital

Apply For Seedstars Investment Readiness Program To Recieve Funding

Seedstars has launched a new investment program called the Investment Readiness Program targetted at entrepreneurs and startups from emerging markets.