Venture capital

BII announces $20m investment in mobility fintech Moove

British International Investment (BII), the UK government’s development finance institution, has made a $20 million, four-year structured credit investment in Moove – a mobility…

Futuregrowth announces high-growth development equity fund

Early-stage businesses with a strong developmental impact are set to benefit from the soon-to-be launched high-growth development equity fund by Futuregrowth, a leading South…

Omame to grow TLcom deal flow generation into pre-seed

Africa-focused venture capital firm TLcom has announced the appointment of Eloho Omame as a partner, bolstering its capabilities as it ramps up deployment of…

[Opinion] ‘Grow SA through local venture capital funding’

Justin James, co-founder and investment partner at Fireball Capital, explains how his venture capital fund management firm, has observed an exponential acceleration of external…

FMO backs AfricArise to fast-track tech start-ups

Tech start-ups in Ghana, Morocco and Tanzania are set to benefit from a partnership between AfricArena, Africa’s leading tech ecosystem accelerator and deal-flow platform,…

Angel investors plug early-stage funding gap in Africa

One of the biggest challenges facing entrepreneurial startups in sub-Saharan Africa is funding – particularly early-stage financial support – even though the landscape across…

Flow is ‘barometer of proptech growth in SA’

It comes to no surprise that fintech is the kingmaker in the African investment space. After all, the value of this is set to…

Cape Town based BNPL startup secures Weaver Fintech investment

PayJustNow, a Cape Town-based digital payment platform specialising in Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), has secured an investment from a major fintech player, which…

Morocco based logistics startup Freterium raises $4M

Morocco-based transport management software startup, Freterium, has raised $4M in its latest funding round which closed in December. The seed round was led by…

Flutterwave raises $250M, now valued at over $3B

Flutterwave, the African fintech founded in 2016 that helps businesses make and accept payments anywhere from across Africa and around the world announced, has…

Egyptian ecommerce platform, Wasla, raises $9M in funding

Wasla, the Egyptian e-commerce mobile web browser and desktop extension, has raised $9 million in funding from Contact Financial Holding. With the tie-up, Contact…

Egypt proptech startup, Nawy, raises $5M in seed funding

Egyptian proptech startup, Nawy, has concluded its seed funding round securing $5 million in investment led by the Sawiris family office. Nawy is an…

Egyptian investment startup, Thndr, secures $20M in Series A

Thndr, the Egyptian digital investment platform, has secured $20 million in a Series A investment round co-led by Tiger Global, BECO Capital and Prosus…

Nigerian healthtech startup, Reliance Health, raises $40M in Series B

Reliance Health, an emerging markets-focused digital healthcare provider, has completed a $40M (R622 426 000,00) Series B funding round led by General Atlantic, a…

Egypt’s YFS raises $7M in Series A funding

Yalla Fel Sekka (YFS), the Egyptian on-demand logistics provider specialising in instant delivery and dark store management, has raised $7 million in a Series…

Docklands Ventures acquires SA parking startup, ParkUpp

South African parking startup, ParkUpp, has been acquired by real estate investment company Docklands Ventures, owned by ex-JLL Chairman for Sub-saharan Africa, Mark Bradford….

Kenyan healthtech startup, Afya Rekod, raises $2M in seed funding

Kenyan based healthtech startup, Afya Rekod, has raised $2 million (R30 608 600,00) in seed funding. The round was led by Mac Venture Capital, a…

CompariSure raises R15M in Pre-Series A round lead by local VC firms

South African startup, CompariSure, has raised R15 million ($980 000) from Cape Town based HAVAÍC and 4Di in a Pre-Series A funding round lead…

South African fintech raises R47M funding in Series A

TallOrder, the South African fintech developer of cloud-based point of sale (POS) solutions for the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, has raised R47m…

South African HR software startup, Wamly, secures second round investment

Wamly, the video interview software startup founded by Francois de Wet in 2018, has secured a 2nd round investment from South African venture capital…

Partech launches accelerator to help European startups expand to Africa

Paris-based tech investment firm Partech has launched Chapter54, an accelerator programme to support European startups wanting to expand into Africa, via its innovation division,…

Sengalese logistics company, PAPS, raises $4.5M in Series A funding

Many global companies like Amazon, Alibaba and JD have built massive companies by leveraging strong logistics infrastructure. The biggest problem for many companies, especially…

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