The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) in 2020 launched a new initiative “Enterprise Development for Women-Owned Ventures in
Women Who Tech has launched the Emerging Tech Challenge to fund innovative women-led startups in Africa, Europe and North America.
Xend Finance, the first decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for credit unions and cooperatives, has announced that it has raised an
OceanHub Africa is launching the second cohort of its six-month online acceleration program to support up to six of Africa’s
Eloho Omame, the Managing Director of Endeavor Nigeria and Odunayo Eweniyi, the Co-founder/Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest, have launched FirstCheck
uLesson, the African learning technology platform, has closed a $7.5mn Series A round led by Owl Ventures, with inclusion from
OZÉ, a Ghanaian fintech startup has raised $700,000 in Seed funding from Anorak Ventures and Matuca Sarl. Angel groups like
Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) is an Access Bank initiative that aims to nurture, fund, and accelerate the growth of Fintech
South African insurtech Pineapple is planning to open an office in Hartford where it will base its U.S. operations in
Orange on Monday announced that its venture capital arm, Orange Ventures has become a separate legal entity with an increased