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Stitch adds Capitec Pay to its impressive API offering

South Africa-based payments company, Stitch, is expanding its payments infrastructure offering by integrating Capitec Pay into its API. This integration will allow Stitch clients…

Workpay secures $2.6m in pre-Series A funding round

Workpay, a Kenyan HR payroll start-up co-founded by chief executive Paul Kimani and COO Jackson Kungu, has secured Ksh 342 million (about $2.6 million)…

ExploreAI, ALX to train 25k data science students

South Africa-founded start-up ExploreAI Academy, Africa’s largest data science training institution, has partnered with ALX, a leading international technology training provider, to offer training…

Truzo launches digital escrow service for UK-SA trade

Truzo, the first African-focused FCA-approved digital escrow service, has launched in the United Kingdom, enabling safe and reliable transactions between this country and South…

Capitec Pay: Ozow leads way to new payments future

Capitec has partnered with Ozow, amongst other players, to launch a new payment solution that could potentially revolutionise the banking sector in South Africa….

Innov8 signs 5-year deal for U-Image wireless ultrasound

Innov8 Group Holdings, a private equity firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, has signed an exclusive five-year deal with Avacare Global, a healthcare…

CURBON offers e-commerce plug-in for carbon offsetting

Sustainability is a topic of growing importance in South Africa, with 92% of respondents in a 2022 study by InSites Consulting indicating that it…

Africa’s only Metaverse venue bags Swiss VC funding

Billed as Africa’s first and only Metaverse venue, SodaWorld has secured initial global investment form a prestigious Swiss venture capital firm. The technology start-up enables…

DataProphet closes $10m series A round led by Knife Capital

South Africa-founded DataProphet has completed a $10 million series A funding round. This, says insiders, sets the AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) platform on its way to…

Droppa goes global following series A funding round

Droppa, a South African logistics start-up, closed its series A investment round with SkyNet Worldwide Express. The relationship, though, was not formed in a…

From zero to hero: Zimele backs 500 rural start-ups

Mining giant Anglo American has vowed to turn more than 500 South African start-ups in rural communities into sustainable and successful companies. This will…

African languages AI picked for Grindstone accelerator

Billed as Africa’s first conversational AI, Botlhale AI is among the 25 high-growth start-ups that were hand-picked for a year-long programme by Grindstone, a…

AfricArena announces more top speakers for Tunisia summit

With organisers announcing more high-profile speakers, the official countdown has begun for AfricArena’s upcoming North Africa summit hosted in Tunis, the capital, and the…

Closing the gender gap for women in technology

It seems the South African digital sector hasn’t quite grasped the age-old law of supply and demand. Technology companies are scrambling for capable women…

Africa’s start-up glory a major confident booster for Africans

A recent wave of technology innovation coming out of Africa is changing how Africans view the continent. This is according to a new report…

SAVCA to honour businesses who thrived with investment

Portfolio companies, private equity and venture capital funds have until Monday, 15 August to enter the 2022 SAVCA Industry Awards hosted by the Southern…

Win cash, training in Access Bank’s womenpreneur contest

On the eve of South Africa’s official Women’s Day celebrations, Access Bank South Africa has announced a new programme in which three women-owned start-ups…

Tech for good: start-ups drive change across Africa

Africa has long been touted as the continent with the most growth potential when it comes to tech and innovation. Many African countries are…

SA clean-tech start-ups to vie for global investment

South African clean-tech start-ups and entrepreneurs will vie for the attention of international and local investors at the Green Energy Africa Summit held on…

BPS closes $2.7M seed round to improve electricity access

Beacon Power Services (BPS), a Nigerian energy tech company providing data and grid management solutions to help Africa’s power sector distribute electricity more efficiently,…

African start-ups shine in Migration Entrepreneurship Prize

No less than seven Nigerian tech start-ups walked away with top honours in this year’s Migration Entrepreneurship Prize, a programme designed for socially driven…

Africa’s next wave of tech unicorns to gather at #SAIS2022

Innovation goes viral. This is the theme of this year’s SA Innovation Summit with about 1 500 founders, ecosystem builders and investors exploring how great…

Cape Town to host Africa Fintech Summit in November

In November 2022, leading innovators, investors, and policymakers from around the world will gather in Cape Town, South Africa, for the eight edition of…

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