Helios Investment Partners, an Africa-focused private equity firm, has led a Series B funding round in Singapore-based fintech startup Thunes,
The African Development Bank’s Youth Agripreneur AgriPitch Competition and DealRoom connect expansion-ready, youth-led African businesses with global investors (debt, equity and/or grant).
Sparkle has partnered with Visa to enable the digital bank issue Visa cards to its users, thereby making payment seamless
BACE API, a technology startup from Ghana has been named winner of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2020 powered
Obi Ozor, Group CEO and Co-Founder of African technology-enabled logistics startup, Kobo360, has been named in Fortune’s prestigious annual 40
KlassConnect, SmartClinic, and Elizade University have emerged winners of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon Challenge which was
Thirteen teams of a total of 25 emerging African social entrepreneurs have been selected as winners of the 2020 Resolution
ColdHubs has been named winner of the FCMB Agritech Epic Pitch 2020. ColdHubs beat 5 other startups–Farmz2U, Beat Drone, Tradebuza,
Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) has gotten a new head in the person of Daniel Awe. The management and board of
LEAP Africa in partnership with Union Bank has announced the call for applications for the 2020/ 2021 cohort of the Social Innovators Programme