To support small and medium sized enterprises in Africa—and to protect jobs at those businesses—IFC and TLG Capital announced the first close...
Kofa, leading technology-driven energy company and end-to-end ecosystem enabler, has closed an $8.1 million pre-Series A funding round. The investment, comprising $3.25...
In the wake of ongoing disruptions to USAID’s supply chain, the Government of Ghana has partnered with Zipline, the world’s largest autonomous logistics...
InfraCredit, a ‘AAA’-rated specialised infrastructure credit guarantee institution, has announced the successful equity investment by the UK Government-backed MOBILIST programme, alongside other...
Mobile money reached two significant milestones in 2024, surpassing two billion registered accounts and over half a billion active monthly users across...
Digital payments gateway Peach Payments has agreed to acquire West-African payment platform PayDunya. In the process, it enters mainland Francophone Africa for the...
Proparco renewed its strategic partnership with CRDB Bank Plc, Tanzania’s largest financial institution, by granting two new guarantees worth €24 million each,...
InfiniLink, an innovative semiconductor startup specializing in advanced optical data connectivity chips for AI-driven data centers, announced the successful closure of a $10M funding...
Pan-African technology company Cassava Technologies (www.CassavaTechnologies.com), in a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, has launched a community engagement initiative focused on South Africa....
Africa’s digital payments economy is set to grow from strength to strength according to a Mastercard-commissioned report by Genesis Analytics stating that...
Rivy, an AI-powered lender for Africa’s renewable energy sector, announced its rebrand from Payhippo and the successful closing of a US$4 million in...
In a transformative move to advance Development Security Operations (DevSecOps), Deimos, a leading hybrid and multi-cloud technology company, partnered with Salus Cloud,...
Mastercard is deepening its collaboration with Paymentology, a next-generation global issuer processor, to facilitate card issuance for fintech companies in South Africa....
LoftyInc Capital Management announced the first close of $43m for its new LoftyInc Alpha Fund, a late-seed focused investment vehicle that will...
Dashen Bank, one of Ethiopia’s leading private banks, has partnered with global nonprofit Accion and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to...
Shehryar Ali, Senior Vice President and Country Manager for East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands at Mastercard, at the recently concluded Africa...
The Africa Tech Summit Awards has announced the 2025 finalists, celebrating individuals and companies impacting the technology sector across the continent. The winners will...
Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative to support African healthtech startups to commercialise and scale their offerings, is calling for leading...
MoneyHash, the first and leading payment orchestration platform operating in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), has secured $5.2M in pre-A funding. Flourish...
The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) is co-financing Africa’s largest onshore wind power project, contributing US$30 million to the...
Ventures Platform, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in innovative startups across Africa has published its landmark climatetech whitepaper entitled, “Innovating for a...
TLP Advisory, the venture law firm headquartered in Lagos, with offices in London and New York marks ten years of operation with...