Techstars
Funding Investment Startup

Techstars Announces 12 New Investments Via its Africa-focused Program

Techstars, an investor platform in Africa, has announced its second cohort of 12 companies to participate in its pan-African accelerator

Bujeti
Fintech Funding Investment Startup

Bujeti Secures $2m Funding to Support Growth & Increase Market Share

Bujeti, the Nigerian fintech startup, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Y Combinator (YC). The round was

AppsFlyer
Acquisition

AppsFlyer Acquires oolo to Transform AI-Driven Decision-Making Businesses

AppsFlyer, the marketing measurement, attribution, and data analytics, has announced its acquisition of oolo, an AI-powered user acquisition and monetization decision-making

tappi
Funding Investment SMEs Venture Capital

tappi Raises $1.5m to Digitize and Build Online Trust  for Africa’s SMEs 

tappi, an end-to-end digital commerce SaaS solution for SMEs, has raised $1.5M in an oversubscribed Pre-Seed round led by Mercy Corps

Amini
Climate Change Funding Investment

Amini closes $4m Seed Funding Round Led by Salesforce Ventures and Female Founders Fund

Amini, a Kenyan climate tech startup focused on solving Africa’s environmental data gap through artificial intelligence and satellite technology, has

NoOnes
Appointment

NoOnes Appoints Ray Youssef as CEO

NoOnes, the financial communication super app connecting people of the Global South to the world’s financial systems, has announced its

MEST Africa
Startup

Meet 2023 MEST Africa Challenge Regional Finalists

MEST Africa, a pan-African software and entrepreneurship training program, seed fund, and incubator, has selected 45 technology startups to advance

d.light
Climate Change Venture Capital

EchoVC Raises $2.5m for its Climate, Energy & Sustainability Pilot Fund

EchoVC, a seed and early-stage technology venture capital firm, has announced the launch of its EchoVC Eco Pilot Fund I

Competition Health

Founder of WellaHealth Named 2023 Winner of Africa’s Business Heroes Prize Competition

Ikpeme Neto, the founder of WellaHealth, a Nigerian digital health insurance company, has been named winner of Africa’s Business Heroes

Saviu Ventures
Funding Investment Venture Capital

Saviu Ventures Reached First Close €12m of its Second Fund Saviu II

Saviu Ventures, a Venture Capital firm in Francophone Africa, has announced the first close of its second fund Saviu II,