F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Corpreneur hopes to make Nigerian millennials save more
Fresh out of the university after bagging a degree in computer science, Oluwafemi Alofe built an MVP for a legal tech startup in 2016. He would…
After its failed stint with M-Pesa, Vodacom is planning to launch another fintech service in SA
Vodacom Group has announced plans to launch a super app that offers financial and lifestyle services to its millions of customers. The news came out…
Nigeria’s Kiakiaprint partners with Canva and South Africa
Nigerian print-on-demand startup, Kiakiaprint has announced its partnership with online design and publishing company, Canva. This is Canva’s first partnership with an African print-on-demand company and it…
How Tokyo-based VC, Samurai Incubate Africa invests in African startups
Samurai Incubate is a Japanese early-stage venture capital firm and incubator. Via its Samurai Incubate Fund, the firm claims to have invested in more than…
Akiddie wants to create the largest collection of African children’s stories
“Story story… story!”, ” Once upon a time… time time!” Most Nigerians will know these as phrases used to begin stories during their childhood….
Safaricom’s financials show how much stake it owns in the new M-Pesa venture
In 2007, M-Pesa was launched as a product by UK telecommunications company, Vodafone and its subsidiary, Safaricom, the largest telco operator in Kenya. Since then, it has…
African startups have raised about $500-millon but see a big Q2 slump
Total venture funding for African startups in 2020 so far has passed the $500m mark. This is according to Maxime Bayen, company builder at GreenTec Capital,…
An insight into how Ingressive Capital invests in African startups
Ingressive Capital, the venture capital fund focused on early-stage African tech, recently completed its $10 million fund. According to information on the firm’s website,…
Four key metrics from Carbon’s financials in the past three years
Nigerian fintech startup, Carbon, on Tuesday, released a report detailing its key activities and metrics for 2019. Last year when the startup, Carbon, formerly…
How South African startup, Voyc, is taking its AI-backed contact centre software beyond Africa
Have you ever called a call centre and heard “this call may be recorded for training and quality purposes”? It’s a phrase most of…
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