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Leapfrog Ventures Invest $50k in Kenya’s BiasharaBot

Leapfrog Ventures has made a $50,000 investment in Kenya’s SaaS startup BiasharaBot. Founded in 2017 by Moses Kibet Korir and Felix

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Nigeria Fintech Startup, Paystack Secures $8 Million Series A Funding Led By Stripe

Nigeria Fintech startup, Paystack has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Stripe. The new capital raised is

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Meet The Startups That Will Participate in the 2nd Cohort of Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa 

Eleven startups across 6 African countries will participate in the second class of the accelerator in Lagos, Nigeria. Fola Olatunji-David,

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Samsung Pay Unveiled in South Africa

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced that its mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, is now live in South Africa. With

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DEMO Africa 2018 Announces Top 30 Finalists

Following a few months of innovation roadshows, city tours and virtual adjudication, the management team of DEMO Africa today announced

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Konga Reintroduces Pay on Delivery Option

Konga, a leading e-commerce firm in Nigeria, has said that it will re-introduce Pay on Delivery (POD) services, which was

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Fintech Startup, Flutterwave Secures USSD Approval From CBN

Flutterwave has received approval from Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to own and operate an Unstructured Supplementary

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Should a Startup Focus on Scaling or Launching?

In the early stages of founding a startup, there’s a whole ton of stuff that you need to think about.

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Paylater App Has reached 1 Million Downloads

In Nigeria, a country of nearly 200 million people, 61% of the adult population is un- or underbanked. Fintech companies

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Kenya’s Sokowatch Raises $2 Million Seed Funding Led by 4DX Ventures

Sokowatch, the Kenyan B2B e-commerce startup has raised $2 million seed funding led by 4DX Ventures. Others to join the round were