Google has announced the second Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge in Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey with an open call for
Women Who Tech has launched the Emerging Tech Challenge to fund innovative women-led startups in Africa, Europe and North America.
347 African tech start-ups raised a total of US$ 1.43 Billion in 359 equity rounds. Nigeria remains the leader with
Sakneen, an Egyptian property tech startup, has secured $1.1 million in a seed round led by Algebra Ventures. The round
Mono, a Nigerian fintech startup, has been selected for Y Combinator’s W21 startup accelerator program. Launched less than 3 months
OceanHub Africa is launching the second cohort of its six-month online acceleration program to support up to six of Africa’s
Cowrywise, a Nigerian fintech startup, has raised $3 million in pre-Series A funding led by Quona Capital. Tsadik Foundation, Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia,
In a positive move for the South African fintech landscape, Spot Money has launched the country’s first Open Banking offering.
Eloho Omame, the Managing Director of Endeavor Nigeria and Odunayo Eweniyi, the Co-founder/Chief Operations Officer of Piggyvest, have launched FirstCheck
Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) is an Access Bank initiative that aims to nurture, fund, and accelerate the growth of Fintech