FirstCheck Africa
Funding Investment Venture Capital Women

Meet the Four Female-led African Startups That Just Received Investment From FirstCheck Africa

Six months ago, Eloho Omame, the Managing Director of Endeavor Nigeria and Odunayo Eweniyi, the Co-founder/Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest launched FirstCheck

Funding Investment Press Release Startup Technology

SmartHotel Raises Additional $1m to Scale its Innovative Contactless Communication Software For African Hospitality Industry

SmartHotel, a startup that develops software for the hospitality industry, has closed a $1 million pre-series A round from Smok

GNI
News

22 media innovators selected for the second GNI Innovation Challenge in Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey

Google has announced the names of 22 media innovators set to receive $2.1 million in funding through the second Google News

Fintech Technology

Klasha Launches Payment Links – a no-code Option to Accept Payments From Africa

Klasha, a fintech startup building borderless payments for e-commerce in Africa, has announced a new no-code option to accept payments

MarketForce
Funding Investment Retail Startup Venture Capital

Kenyan Retail Distribution Startup, MarketForce Raises $2m Pre-series A Round

MarketForce, the Kenyan-based end-to-end retail distribution platform for consumer brands in Africa, has raised a $2 million pre-Series A round from

MarketForce
Acquisition

MarketForce Acquires Digiduka to Consolidate Distribution of Consumer Goods With Digital Financial Services

MarketForce, the Kenyan-based end-to-end retail distribution platform for consumer brands in Africa, has acquired Digiduka, a startup on a mission

Ukheshe
Interview

Meet Clayton Hayward, Serial Entrepreneur Leveraging Ukheshe to Reach Financially Underserved Market

Ukheshe, the South African fintech startup, is on topflight mode. It keeps innovating and expanding its services to the financially

EscrowLock
Fintech

Nigerian Fintech Startup, EscrowLock Among Winners of $100m Facebook Grant

EscrowLock, a Nigerian fintech startup, has been named among the winners of the $100 million global business grant from Facebook.

Future Africa
Funding Investment Venture Capital

Future Africa Says it Has Invested $3m in 13 Startups in 2021

Future Africa has says that it has invested $3million in 13 startups, bringing our total number of investments as a

Telda
Fintech Funding Investment Venture Capital

Egyptian Fintech Startup Telda Secures $5m in Pre-seed Funding Led by Sequoia

Telda, an Egyptian fintech startup, has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Global