African fintech Flutterwave has raised $250 million in a Series D round that tripled the company’s valuation to over $3 billion in just twelve months. In

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This

There’s no denying the growth of health tech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine,

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. They are responsible for communication between

Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform, gets $4 million from Base10 and other investors to scale into other countries.

Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola has, for the first time, addressed financial and personal misconduct claims leveled against him and the company this

The provision of virtual foreign bank accounts has become a common strategy for fintechs to enable Nigerians and Africans to facilitate international

Two months into 2021, South African fintech Stitch came out of stealth and raised $4 million in seed funding, allowing it to begin to make inroads into

Google plans to invest up to $50 million in African early- and growth-stage startups via its Africa Investment Fund, ramping up efforts to support more

More than 100 million Americans spend an average of $1,100 (over $1.4 trillion per year) on their largest monthly household spend: rent. But reports say

Kuda has opted to launch its financial services in the U.K. as expansion into other African countries stall

Fintech in Africa is a goldmine. Investors are betting big on startups offering a plethora of services from payments and lending to neobanks, remittances

African countries are yet to catch up with social security and safety programs commonly used in the West, where the government provides health insurance

For years, offline test preparation centers in Nigeria have provided after-school guidance and tutoring to students who seek to pass entrance

Nigeria is leading the way in adoption of digital payments across Africa, with over $800B in digital transactions annualized for the first 4 months of this year

Norebase allows founders and businesses to start and scale across a number of African countries.

MaC Venture Capital and Serena Ventures back Nigerian data company Stears as it plots pan-African expansion

Earnipay, a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage

For a while, there have been talks about revamping the outdated 2007 Act of Nigeria's information and technology body, the National Information Technology

Zambian card-issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global.

The African tech scene woke up today to exciting news about the landmark acquisition of MainOne, one of the region’s most important and pivotal tech

A club of startup founders scoring millions of dollars in valuation and dominating headlines in the tech world are alumni of the fintech company Paystack.

Activity around African venture capital firms raising funds continues to increase as we head towards the end of the year. In the latest development,

African cities, particularly sub-Saharan ones, have the fastest global urban growth rate. But with challenges around overcrowding, congestion,

African customers, startups and FTX's employees lost millions in the crypto platform's collapse this month.

Cleva closed a pre-seed round including an investment from Y Combinator, where it will be participating in its winter 2024 batch.

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday,

Startups have sought to use technology to digitize processes in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space over the past couple of years. While many focus

Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 million financing round. The seed round, which was

Taeillo, an online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 million from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity fund. 

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the

Last April, Balaji Srinivasan, a high-profile figure in the crypto space and the ex-CTO of Coinbase, wrote a piece titled “How to Start a New Country” in

The Tokyo multinational conglomerate has earmarked $10 million for early-stage gaming, music, film, and content distribution companies.

NALA, a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million

In February, Disha, a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from

Niklas Adalberth’s Norrsken Foundation is in the news again barely two months after opening its Norrsken House in Kigali, Rwanda, which plans to

Ventures Platform, a Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, has reached the final close of its fund at $46 million as it looks to double down on “category-leading” companies across the...

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. It's

Mono, an African startup that helps connect consumers’ bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $15 million Series A round, the company

According to this World Health Organization (WHO) article on treating cancer, detecting symptomatic patients as early as possible gives them the best

Kippa said the investment will allow it to develop financial products that help SMEs grow their businesses and grow its team in Nigeria.

Its stock has fallen 70% since its IPO as growth stalls and operating losses mount.

Spleet is a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually.