- Mastercard has extended its strategic commercial partnership with Smile ID, an identity verification provider in Africa to accelerate the rollout of…
- Verto, a cross-border payments and foreign exchange for businesses firm, has launched a new strategic hub in Nairobi, Kenya to serve the East African…
- MazaoHub, Tanzania’agri-tech startup blending artificial intelligence with hands-on agronomy to drive climate-smart farming, has raised $2 million in…
- HALA, Saudi Arabia’s leading fintech and provider of embedded financial services to micro, small and medium enterprises, has raised $157 million in a…
- Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max have arrived, bringing what the company calls its “most powerful and advanced Pro models ever.” Both…
- Janngo Capital has invested in Morocco’s recruitment platform Jobzyn to transform recruitment in Africa and in the MENA region using AI. Jobzyn uses…
- Morocco’s ORA Technologies, a rising local tech startup, has acquired Cathedis, a Casablanca-based last-mile delivery company, for an undisclosed sum…
- South African digital tax assistant TaxTim has been acquired by a private investment consortium led by Twofold Capital, in a transaction that marks a…
- Uber has partnered with Joby Aviation, an electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, to bring Blade’s air mobility services to the Uber app…
- In a move that underscores growing global investor appetite for Gulf fintech, UAE-based embedded finance startup CredibleX has secured a $100 million…
- For years, coupons were dismissed as an old-fashioned way to save a few cents on groceries. They were seen as scraps of paper clipped from newspapers…
- iXAfrica,” a carrier-neutral, AI-ready Data Centre closed a multi-tranche funding package from Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of FirstRand, to…
- Tanzanian fintech NALA is making a strategic push into Kenya, bypassing the Central Bank licensing route by partnering with Equity Bank and Pesalink…
- Betika, a betting firm operating in Kenya, has denied being hacked, despite reports that a certain university student hacked it leading to an alleged…
- Nigerian agri-tech platform, Babban Gona, has received $7.5 to boost food security and climate resilience for smallholder farmers in Northern Nigeria…
- Bharti Airtel’ Indus Towers Bets Big on Africa, Challenging ATC and Helios Bharti Airtel’s tower arm, Indus Towers, is making its first international…
