Search results for "payments"
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1.3KAfrica Tech SummitMarket Expansion & Fundraising for Startup’s
Panel Session at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2022:Unpacking the market expansion of start-ups on the Continent, and how COVID accelerated digital adoption...
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1.2KDigital TransformationOnePort 365 secures $5 million Seed Funding to Digitize Freight Management in Africa
Nigerian digital freight forwarding company, OnePort 365, has raised $5 million in seed funding to drive the end-to-end digitization of freight management in...
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1.3KInnovationUmba raises $15M in a Series A led by Costanoa Ventures and Lux Capital
Umba, a digital bank with a mission to bring a wide range of transparent and accessible financial products across Africa has raised...
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3.4KInnovationTushop Raises $3M to Scale Community Group-Buying in Kenya
Tushop, the Kenyan social-commerce platform that enables communities in Nairobi to buy groceries more cheaply with free delivery, has secured $3M in...
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1.4KcryptoCrypto exchange FTX partners with AZA Finance to expand Web3 in Africa
FTX, a global digital currency exchange, today announced it is partnering with AZA Finance to expand the adoption of digital currencies and...
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1.5KFundingSokowatch secures $125M Series B Round, launches in West Africa, and rebrands to Wasoko
Sokowatch, the African e-commerce company leveraging innovative technology to transform the informal retail supply chain, has today announced the close of a...
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2.0KEast AfricaM-KOPA Secures $75M Growth Equity Round
M-KOPA, the fintech platform that provides connected financing and digital financial services to underbanked consumers across four markets in Africa, today announced...
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16.3KAppsCarry1st Raises $20M From Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Avenir to Scale Interactive Content Across Africa
Carry1st, Africa’s leading mobile games publisher, has announced a $20M Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Avenir and...
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2.7KFinTechPan-African Payment and Settlement System Launched
Ghana President H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, represented by the Vice President H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia today in Accra, hosted and presided...
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2.5KE-CommerceAfrikrea Secures US$6.2M in pre-Series A Round and Rebrands to “ANKA” to Export Africa
Afrikrea, the e-commerce platform for “all things made of Africa”, has announced the successful completion of a US$6.2M pre-Series A round led...
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2.5KCryptocurrency Africa3 trends in Africa’s crypto sector to expect in 2022
For the global cryptocurrency industry, 2021 is likely to be remembered as one of the many years bitcoin broke past its all-time...
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3.7KFundingAsilimia secures $2 million to build the financial infrastructure of Africa’s informal economy
Asilimia, a startup that is building the digital infrastructure to connect African MSMEs to the formal financial economy, has secured $2 million...
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4.5KCryptocurrency AfricaFinTech Tingo and Blockchain Cudos Partner to End Poverty Premium in Nigeria
Mobile FinTech Tingo has announced its collaboration with the decentralized cloud computing network Cudos to tackle the poverty premium through mobile monetization...
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3.5KInnovationLake Harvest Zambia Joins the Tingg Digital Payment Ecosystem
Cellulant, a leading Pan-African payments company, has partnered with one of Zambia’s leading fish distributors, Lake Harvest to enable mobile payments in...
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4.0KFinTechMFS Africa raises $100M Series C for fintech expansion across Africa
MFS Africa has raised US$100 million Series C through an equity and debt financing round. The fundraising marks another milestone in MFS...
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3.9KFinTechPayhippo raises $3 million seed round to improve credit access for Nigerian small businesses
Payhippo, a lending startup that is widening credit access for small businesses in Nigeria, announced today that it raised $3 million in...
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3.3KGhanaFour Ghanaian digital commerce ventures receive funding from Catalyst Fund
The Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator welcomed four Ghanaian digital commerce companies, OZÉ, Shopa, Swoove, and Tendo, as the second cohort...
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2.8KFinTechFlutterwave Enables New Europe-Africa Payment Corridors via Stellar
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that Flutterwave, a global payments technology company, has launched two new remittance corridors between Europe and Africa on the Stellar network. Working with TEMPO,...
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3.1KFinTechMFS Africa expands into Nigeria with acquisition of super agent network Baxi
MFS Africa, the largest pan-African digital payments hub, announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Baxi, one of Nigeria’s leading...
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2.9KInnovationNigerian fintech Brass raises $1.7mn to expand SME banking
Brass, a Nigerian fintech delivering easy access to affordable premium banking services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), has today secured $1.7mn...
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2.9KFundingSendbox Raises $1.8 Million to Digitise Deliveries For African SMEs
Sendbox, the Nigeria-based e-commerce fulfillment platform for merchants in Africa, has today announced the completion of a $1.8 million seed round from...
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2.7KCryptocurrency AfricaCrypto start-up Bitmama closes pre-seed round
African blockchain company Bitmama has closed a $350,000 pre-Seed round, led by Flori Ventures, with participation from Nigeria-based investment fund Emergence Capital, Fedha Capital, and a host...
