Quro Medical, a Johannesburg-based health tech startup that offers accessible and affordable healthcare for South Africans has secured undisclosed financing (PDF) from Life Healthcare (LHC), a leading international healthcare organization,
Plentywaka, an African mobility startup with a presence in Lagos and Toronto has secured a $1.2 million seed round to scale its operations, after graduating from the Techstars accelerator
Nigeria-based fintech company, Opay has raised $400 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the venture capital arm of Japanese conglomerate, SoftBank. This investment signals the
Odiggo, an Egypt-based auto-tech startup, has announced the close of a $2.2 million seed round from global Venture Capital firms; 500 Startups, Y Combinator and PlugAndPlay. Regional VCs like
Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest lender by assets is set to outline its ‘2025 Ambition’ – which includes plans to ‘transform ‘client experience’ and provide guidance for future financial targets.
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) has announced the four Southern African startups that will go on to the HiiL Justice Accelerator.
HiiL is a social enterprise devoted
Nigerian competitive e-sports startup Gamr has secured seed investment to scale its operations further and deliver new opportunities to Africa’s estimated 750 million gamers.
Gamr is an online subscription
A federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, has on Tuesday granted the request of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to freeze the account of six fintech companies.
The Fintech
Pngme, a San Francisco and Africa based fintech infrastructure and machine learning-as-a-service platform has closed a $15 million Series A funding round.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures with
Wayja, a South Africa based peer-to-peer (P2P) betting platform that allows users to connect with friends and place informal bets on anything from anywhere, has gone live. With the launch,
Showlove, a Nigeria-based social platform for gifting has announced the close of a $300,000 pre-seed round from Fedha Capital, and other angel investors.
Launched in December 2020 by Chikodi
Social media giant, Facebook has announced that it will expand the 2Africa, giant subsea cable it is building to four more branches in Africa.
According to a statement released on
