COVID-19 has propelled the adoption of digital payments platforms for millions of people across the African continent. The need for contactless methods...
IFC has partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to expand data center capacity and the rollout of fiber-optic cable on the continent. The...
Tilting Point, a leading free-to-play games publisher, and Carry1st, a leading publisher of mobile games in Africa, have partnered to bring the...
EMURGO – the official commercial arm and a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain – previously announced the launch of a new...
MaxAB, the largest Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, has acquired WaystoCap, the Morocco-based B2B e-commerce and distribution...
Taager, the Egyptian social ecommerce platform empowering online merchants with end-to-end logistics, has secured $6.4M in a Seed round, led by 4DX Ventures, a pan-Africa...
Mareme Dieng, 500 Startups Lead, Global Innovation Strategy, Africa shares 500’s vision for Africa From 55 startups successfully funded in 2015 to 359...
Africa Tech Summit Connects podcast shares insights from across the African tech scene. In this episode active investors from across the continent...
2021 has already seen a flurry of African tech funding rounds including Gro Intelligence ($85M), uLesson ($7.5M), Aerobotics ($17M) and Pula ($6M)...
On May 25th, during Africa International Day, the African civil society and its diaspora are mobilizing to fight against the economic and...
Edtech is now providing essential remote learning opportunities for students across Africa, while schools are closed as a result of the COVID-19...
At the recent Africa Tech Summit Kigali 2020, it was stated that data is in fact Africa’s “new blood” rather than the “new...
The Africa Start-up Summit hosted at Africa Tech Summit in partnership with Disrupt Africa uncovered some of the key areas from the...
2019 was the best year yet for investment into the African tech startup space, with 311 companies banking a combined US$491.6 million....
Eleven companies from across the continent have been selected to pitch on stage to investors, corporates, media and other stakeholders at the...
Andela, the global technology company that builds distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, today announced applications for its 5-months program,...
The African Development Bank and Microsoft have launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform an online tool to provide digital skills to...
The final shortlist for the 5th AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards have been announced. The Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from...
Africa’s fintech sector is growing at a fast pace, with the number of startups operating in the space growing by more than...
AfriLabs; the largest Pan- African network of technology and innovation centres has added 27 new hubs into the network thereby extending reach...
Orange has launched the “Orange Digital Centre” in Tunis, to provide wide-ranging support for startups. This will include training young people in coding,...
Gebeya has announced its plan of expansion into Senegal in response to the growing tech potential of West Africa. The company was...