Novastar held the final closing of Novastar Ventures Africa Fund II (NVAF II) with total commitments of $108 million. Now managing more...
Tigo Tanzania has extended its Mobile Money service across East Africa. Tigo Pesa subscribers can now send or receive money to or...
Africa Tech Summit Connects is an online series of webinars and digital content sharing insights from across the African tech ecosystem. Nigeria’s...
54gene,the African genomics research, services, and development company has closed a Series A round of $15M, led by Adjuvant Capital, a life...
YouTube has launched two new services, YouTube Music and YouTube Premium in Nigeria. YouTube Music will offer access to ad-supported and free...
The Founder Institute, the pre-seed accelerator program, and Semicolon, an organisation turning Africa’s vibrant youth population into an army of technologists –...
TerraPay announced that a consortium of investors, including Prime Ventures, Partech Africa and management acquired the company for an undisclosed sum. In...
At the recent Africa Tech Summit Kigali 2020, it was stated that data is in fact Africa’s “new blood” rather than the “new...
Africa’s Indian Ocean islands are about way more than just tourism. In a panel discussion at this year’s Africa Tech Summit in...
Facebook is partnering with nine non-profit organisations and government agencies throughout sub-Saharan Africa to raise awareness about Internet safety and security for...
The Africa Start-up Summit hosted at Africa Tech Summit in partnership with Disrupt Africa uncovered some of the key areas from the...
Kenyan data analytics startup Superfluid Labs has been named winner of the ENGIE Challenge at Africa Tech Summit Kigali, earning the chance...
Blockchain. The current hot topic across the globe right now, not excluding Africa. The biggest 2019 news surrounding blockchain had to be...
Cash is king. Correction, cash was king. It seems cash has an enemy. Technology. Technology plays a huge role in economic development...
Five African credit scoring startups have been selected to pitch for the chance to secure a testing phase for their solutions with...
Andela, the global technology company that builds distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, today announced applications for its 5-months program,...
2019 was the year that dealmaking on the continent got serious. Very serious. In November alone, indeed one specific seven day period...
Kenya-based micro-insurtech startup, Turaco, has announced a successful seed capital raise of USD $1.2 million to further scale its operations across Africa....
Nairobi Garage is set to open the doors to a fourth innovative workspace in the Spring Valley area, in response to accelerating...
The African Development Bank and Microsoft have launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform an online tool to provide digital skills to...
Disrupt Africa and Africa Tech Summit has opened applications to the 2020 edition of Pitch Live at the Africa Startup Summit, with...
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,...