Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has launched Tuition, a new payment product, to allow African users to conveniently pay various fees...
KaiOS Technologies announced that Life, an in-house educational app for KaiOS-powered smart feature phones, is now available in Africa. KaiOS users in Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda,...
The AppsAfrica.com Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech across Africa and we take a look at five EdTech ventures changing education in Africa...
Delivering education has many challenges in Africa and the AppsAfrica.com Educational Award celebrates EdTech companies in Africa striving to improve education and...
80% of students in Africa don’t pass secondary school, while 4 out of 5 adults in english speaking Africa don’t finish high...
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets brought its Ghana round to a successful close with local company Chalkboard...
“A braille dictionary has 26 volumes and each one is quite heavy for most students to carry comfortably. A tablet can hold...
Having launched just two years ago in Nigeria with a few hundred merchants, Kaymu today enables over thirty thousand businesses and individuals...
Masekelo secondary school in Shinyanga, Tanzania has many challenges: there’s no electricity or water, so each pupil needs to collect 5 litres...
Proparco renewed its strategic partnership with CRDB Bank Plc, Tanzania’s largest financial institution, by granting two new guarantees worth €24 million each,...
Dashen Bank, one of Ethiopia’s leading private banks, has partnered with global nonprofit Accion and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to...
SeamlessHR, Africa’s leading Human Resource technology company, announced that it has raised $9 million in its latest funding round from the Gates...
Ventures Platform, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in innovative startups across Africa has published its landmark climatetech whitepaper entitled, “Innovating for a...
Africhange, a leading cross-border remittance service provider, announced today that its Nigerian subsidiary, Currenzo, has secured the International Money Transfer Operator [IMTO] licence...
Intron Health, a pioneering health tech company that provides clinical speech recognition for over 200 accents spoken in developing countries, starting in...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a $230 million commitment for startups around the world to...
Patoranking Foundation, a non-profit organisation on a mission to advance Africa through education, entrepreneurship and empowerment, has announced the launch of the $500,000 Patoranking...
Tether Operations Limited, the largest company in the digital asset industry, and Bitnob, a financial technology company that enables payments into mobile money wallets...
Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (“VKAV”) is pleased to announce that it has closed its first fund at $60 million. Key institutional investors in the...
Adenia Partners (“Adenia”), a leading private equity firm focused on growth opportunities in Africa, has successfully closed its fifth fund, Adenia Capital...
Sprints.ai, the AI-powered EdTech redefining education for the future, announces a $3 million bridge fundraising round led by Disruptech Ventures, with investments...
IFC is investing $10.5 million in a new fund by 4DX Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage...