Lenovo Southern Africa’s flagship event, Accelerate 2025, has just wrapped up in Johannesburg — and if the conversations are anything to go by, the…
Nigeria’s Interswitch becomes Africa’s latest unicorn after Visa acquires minority stake
US payments technology corporation Visa has acquired a minority stake in Lagos-based digital payments firm Interswitch Group at a valuation of $1-billion, effectively making…
Egyptian traveltech startup Tripdizer to invest $300k seed round in tech, building brand
Cairo-based traveltech startup Tripdizer plans to invest the $300 000 seed round it announced that it had raised last week, on developing its platform…
SMEs, investors to lose out with new threshold and changes to Section 12J [Opinion]
In the past financial year South Africa’s Section 12J investment class didn’t only attract the attention of SA taxpayers — who were looking to…
New York VC Modus Capital launches $75m MENA fund
New York based venture capital firm Modus Capital has launched a $75-million Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused fund. The firm said in…
