Helium Health secures investment from Global Ventures, Tencent.

Helium Health, a health tech startup, has secured $10 million Series A investment from Dubai-based Global Ventures co-led by AAIC Japan. Helium Health which is based in Nigeria is the largest health electronic media records platform in West Africa. Incorporated in 2016 as OneMedical, and later rebranded as Helium in

Egyptian Startup, Pravica Raises $500,00 in a pre-seed round.

Cairo-based Pravica has raised US$500,00 in a pre-seed round, led by 500 Startups, with the participation of Modus Capital and DYRES Venture. Pravica is an innovative platform based on blockchain technology which offers a decentralized email service. The investment will help Pravica to build its customer base, widen

Nigerian Mobile payments company, Paga partners with fintech company, Remita.

Mobile payments company Paga has entered a partnership with Nigeria’s financial technology brand, Remita to allow payments across both companies and to make Federal Government bill payments available to all customers. The first phase of the collaboration would allow Paga customers to easily make payments to all Remita billers

TikTok Hits 2 billion downloads.

The popular video-sharing app TikTok has been ranked the highest app with 2 billion downloads on Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. TikTok is the first app after Facebook’s app, WhatsApp, Instagram  Messenger to break past the 2 billion downloads figure since January 1, 2014. At the

Openserve, South Africa's Largest Teleco to improve Broadband access.

As a result of the pandemic, there has been a demand for cheaper broadband access. Because of the lockdown, users have enough time to access the internet hence the demand for low priced broadband connectivity. Openserve made known its intentions to put its copper broadband network connection products across. The

Nigerian Fintech Startup Flutterwave Launches An E-Commerce Platform For SMEs.

Flutterwave, a fintech startup company based in Lagos, Nigeria is launching an e-commerce platform for small business entrepreneurs in Africa. The company has made efforts to bring ease to those who wish to sell and buy at the comforts of their homes. In doing so, Flutterwave was established to help

Gogettaz Agripreneur Prize Launches Its 2020 Portal To Attract Young Entrepreneurs In Africa.

African young entrepreneurs will now have the opportunity to get help from an agricultural company called GoGettaz. The company is going to help young entrepreneurs who want to do business but facing financial constraints has launched its 2020 portal. The launch of the portal aims at attracting young entrepreneurs into

African digital payments company, DPO Group collaborates with Mastercard to develop e-commerce store.

African digital payments company, DPO Group, has collaborated with Mastercard’s payment gateway technology to develop an e-commerce store for businesses. This comes after the ongoing pandemic which has forced many businesses to shut down. The platform called “DPO Store” will allow merchants across Africa to quickly move their businesses

Ghana's retail startup, Sumundi secures investment from Greentec Capital.

Ghana’s retail startup, Sumundi has secured an investment from Greentec Capital. Sumundi is a retail accelerator that helps retailers in Africa manage and grow their businesses. The company also offers funding support and loans to businesses. Speaking on the investment, Co-founders of Sumundi, Awura Abena Amponsah, and Gilbert Blankson-Afful

Top Ghanian University and Incas Diagnostic develop a test kit for COVID-19.

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in collaboration with Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) and Incas Diagnostics has developed a Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kit for testing Corona-virus. According to the University’s Relations Officer, Dr. Daniel Norris, the development of the RDT is in line

Google makes its teleconferencing service, ‘Google Meet’ free to consumers.

Google is making its teleconferencing service, Google Meet, free to consumers. At an earlier time, Meet was solely for customers who pay Get Suite, Google’s line of enterprise apps that includes Gmail, Drive, and Docs. But now, anyone can join a meeting by clicking on a link, however, creating

SA’s Online Community “Startup Circles” launch to support African entrepreneurs.

South African online community “Startup Circles” has launched to support entrepreneurs to build their businesses by raising funds as well as offering guidance and access to a network of investors. Speaking on the issue, Founder of Startup Circles, Sandras Phiri said “We provide weekly guidance and accountability, monthly webinars and

Egyptian Healthtech Vezeeta Launched Its Doctor Booking Platform In Kenya.

Vezeeta, Egyptian health tech has extended its Doctor booking platform to Kenya. Amir Barsoum who founded the company in 2012, made this known in a statement. According to an article which has been cited in a publication by tech publication Menabytes, the company extended its platforms to Kenya a few

Nigerian Startup OkwuEco relaunches waste management platform.

Nigerian startup OkwuEco has relaunched its marketplace platform for solid waste disposal to motivate recycling. OkwuEco Mobile App that helps users identify, sort, buy, sell, and dispose of solid waste for cash or points, and automatically schedule pickups with waste merchants anywhere. It utilizes image recognition that allows users to

Nigeria engineer officially launches software development and training company.

A Nigerian Engineer, named Oladayo Oyelade, has launched Enyata, a software development, and training company. Enyata is a software engineering company that builds diverse teams that take a human-centered approach to software development. In addition, Oyelade has launched a 3-month intensive training program that gives software developers a high level

AWIEF delays applications for Leadtech Incubation Program.

The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has delayed the deadline for applications for the LeadTech Incubation Program. This comes after the challenges that the ongoing pandemic has brought to the African continent. For the above reason, the applications have been delayed to May 20, 2020. Speaking on the

Grand Challenges Canada To Help Five African Innovators.

Grand Challenges Canada is said to extend its investment to five lucky African companies. The company, which is based in Canada, has extended its support to over 1000 innovations and this time around, has made known its intentions to help five (5)African innovations which will part of the 20

TECNO  To Launch Techno Spark 5 In Kenyan Market

The successor of tecno spark 4 is said to be on its way as techno targets the lunch of techno Spark 5 in Kenya. The company intends is to increase and improve all aspects of the phone as compared to Spark 4 and now working mostly on the camera aspects

Egyptian food-tech startup Mumm secures investment from Alex Angels.

Egyptian food-tech startup Mumm has secured an undisclosed investment which is also a pre-Series A funding round from Alexandria Angels. This funding will help the startup uphold its growth during and after the COVID-19 crisis. Mumm is an online marketplace that delivers homemade food to individual customers as well as

Microsoft Partners With Organizations To Establish Online Learning Across South Africa.

The coronavirus which halted almost all activities across the globe has seized the continuation of the educational sector as well. To help restart this sector in South Africa, Microsoft is helping South Africa make good use of technology to help the educational sector to continue operating. The organization is said

StarTimes to introduce e-shopping platform, ‘Startimes Go’

Digital TV operator, StarTimes is planning to introduce an interactive e-shopping platform called ‘Startimes Go’ to facilitate shopping during the lockdown period. This follows the lockdown observed in countries causing people to stay home and businesses to close to prevent the deadly Coronavirus from spreading. Customers can shop in a

Ghanaian Startup, Stabus develops public transit App.

Ghanaian transport startup stabus has developed a public transit app for bus-booking. This bus booking app links users with private, air-conditioned buses for a reliable ride to and from work. This startup addresses the problem of employees joining long queues which causes them to arrive at work late. The public

Tigo Tanzania Partners With Sister Telecoms To Ease Mobile Money Transaction In East Africa.

The Tigo telecommunications company in Tanzania has decided to partner with some sister Telecommunications Company in Africa to help customers in East Africa send and receive funds across the region. The companies which made up the partnership includes, MTN in Rwanda and Uganda, Airtel in Rwanda, and M-Pesa in Kenya.

Social Payments App Bundle, launches in Nigeria.

Africa’s Social Payments App known as Bundle has been launched in Nigeria by Founder of Microtraction and Ex-director of Binance Lab Yele Bademosi. Bundle is a social payment app for cash or crypto which makes it easy to send, request, and receive cash as well as buy, sell, and

Amazon Web Services launches Data Center in the Cape Town region.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially introduced its Data Centre in Cape Town region This will help businesses and government organizations to develop cloud applications and store their data locally, at the same time reaching end-users across Africa with a lower latency. VP of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support at