- Ventures Platform, a Nigerian-based seed-stage fund, has announced the $64 million first close of its $75 million second fund, VP Pan-African fund II…
- Safaricom Plc, East Africa’s biggest telecommunications operator, posted a 52.1% jump in group net income to KES 42.8 billion ($277 million) for the…
- One of the things that can really kill the mood of a special occasion like a birthday or a holiday is the lack of enough resources to shop for gifts…
- Sawa Energy, an renewable energy company operating in Uganda and Rwanda, has raised EUR 2.5 million (US$2.8 Million) equity investment for expansion…
- A former senior executive at Craft Silicon’s ride-hailing unit Little Cab has been awarded USD 758,000 after Kenya’s Employment and Labour Relations…
- Synnefa has raised $300,000 to deploy IoT-solar dryers across Kenya and is seeking to raise $2 million in seed funding by 2026 to scale its solutions…
- Feyisayo (Sayo) Eweje, a Nigerian-American scientist and co-founder of Procure Bio, is not the kind of scientist who accepts limitations. Whether he…
- Sun King, the solar and appliances financing firm, is entering manufacuring and assembly, with its new manufacturing facility in Tatu City, in Kenya…
- Anka, a pan-African e-commerce platform formerly known as Afrikea, that connects African creators to global buyers, has been acquired by Global Shop…
- Coinbase has acquired Echo, an onchain platform that helps communities invest together and gives founders more options for their cap table. With this…
- Yaga, the Estonia based online marketplace for secondhand fashion, has secured €4 million in pre Series A funding as it looks to accelerate growth in…
- Spiro, the electric motorcycle and battery swapping firm, has raised $100 million investment round, to provide affordable and accessible mobility to…
- Moniepoint Inc., a Nigerian fintech firm, has secured an additional $90 million in funding, bringing its Series C round to a total of $200 million as…
- PAYDAY, a Tunisian fintech and insurtech startup, has raised its first pre-seed financing round at a $3 million valuation. The round was led by UGFS…
- LOOP, an NCBA Bank product, has launched LOOP FLEX, a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) credit facility, to help customers acquire goods on credit, according…
