Orange
News

Orange Announces Winners of 14th Edition of Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East 

The winners of the 14th edition of the Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP), which recognizes and supports startups whose technological solutions

Flourish Founders
Report

Survey Reveals 86% of African Tech Founders Report Impact on Wellbeing—Flourish Ventures

Flourish Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with purpose, today published the first-ever, wide-scale survey of founder wellbeing in Africa,

Visa
Accelerator

Visa Invests in Four African FinTech Startups From Accelerator Program

Visa has announced investment into four startups that graduated from the first batch of its Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator program. The startups

Future is Female
News

20 African Female Founded Tech Start-ups Selected for The Future is Female Mentorship Program

Twenty African female-founded tech startups have been selected for the fifth edition of The Future is Female Mentorship Program, a

BasiGo
Clean Energy Electric Vehicle Funding Investment Venture Capital

BasiGo Secures $42M in Funding to Scale Public Transport Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa

BasiGo, the provider of electric bus solutions in sub-Saharan Africa, has today announced the successful closing of a US$42 million

Grid Africa
Clean Energy CleanTech Funding Investment

Grid Africa Secures $2.8m Equity Investment

Grid Africa, the South African solar energy solution firm, has secured a significant equity investment of $2.8 million from Rifuwo Energy

Jumia
Ecommerce Jumia

Jumia Exits South Africa and Tunisia

Jumia, the African e-commerce startup, will shut down its South African online fashion retailer Zando and its Tunisian operations by

GoMetro
Innovation

SouthAfrica’s GoMetro Selected For Freight Innovation Fund 

GoMetro, a South African-founded B2B software-as-a-service fleet management company, has been selected as a recipient of a £147,000 grant from

Klasha
News

Klasha Raises $2m to Further Ease Crossborder B2B Payments in Africa

Klasha, the Nigerian B2B fintech startup, has raised an additional $2 million in funding to provide cross-border payment services for

Rabbit Mobility
News

Rabbit Mobility nets $1.3m to Expand Across North Africa

Rabbit Mobility has announced a $1.3 million investment round to fuel rapid growth of its micromobility platform across Egypt and other